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MONTH: November 2006

Dogs killed on their holiday

 

KATMANDU, Nepal--Street sweepers on October 20 shocked Narayan Municipality, a suburb of Dailekh, Nepal, by poisoning 23 dogs "on the first day of Tihar and even into Kukur Tihar--the second day of the second greatest Nepalese festival," reported Hariharsigh Rathour of the Katmandu Post, explaining that "On the second day of Tihar, dogs in Nepal are adorned with flower garlands around the neck and red tika on the forehead. They are then offered a great meal and then ritually worshipped."

Narayan official Nirak Rawal told Rathour that the city had asked locals to keep dogs indoors, "But we didn't give any order to kill stray dogs on Kukur Tihar," he said.

"After the killing evoked wide condemnation," Rathour continued, "municipal executive officer Birendra Dev Bharati gave directives to do the killing only after the festival. But as soon as he left to celebrate, inebriated sweepers were found roaming with poison bottles and meat."