Seoulscapade

Yet again, primitive and barbaric behavior has been directed against innocent animals at a protest demonstration in Korea. In the picture above, pheasants are being slaughtered at a rally against Japan’s reiterated claims to territorial rights of Dokdo, a small group of rocky islands between Korea and Japan. Japan had published the claims in some teaching manuals.

Here’s how Al Jazeer reported the incident:

On Thursday protesters in Seoul staged a bloody demonstration outside the Japanese embassy, slaughtering live pheasants – Japan’s national bird – on the street.

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Angry protesters battered, disembowelled and beheaded live pheasants, while dozens of war veterans in military fatigues shouted “Dokdo is our territory!” as they ate the birds’ internal organs and dripped blood on Japanese flags and on pictures of present and former Japanese leaders.

There were also banners that read “Stop violating our territorial sovereignty!” and “Japan must stop distortion of history”.

In April, Japan and South Korea held their first full-fledged bilateral summit in three years.

Ties were suspended after repeated visits by earlier Japanese leaders to a Tokyo shrine honouring the country’s war dead including convicted war criminals.

How pathetic. This does little to help Korea’s already poor standing in the world community in terms of its terrible animal welfare record. Nor does it help raise the consciousness of individual Koreans about the rights of animals, and most assuredly, a great deal needs to be done in that area.

Sections of the Korean community have a habit of slaughtering innocent animals at protest rallies. Apparently they do it to “express emotion.” I reported on another incident of this nature last year. At that incident, a young pig was suspended by ropes while someone hacked it to pieces with a knife—a most disgraceful, unmanly and cruel thing to do. No animal deserves a death like that. It did not cross the minds of these sadistic butchers that they were torturing to death what is essentially the child of another mammal.

It’s not emotion they are expressing at these protests, but their own backwardness and lack of intelligence. Animals sacrificed to “express emotion” are of course entirely innocent, with no connection at all to human affairs. And to abuse and exploit them as scapegoats is truly primitive. It’s the kind of thing ignorant peasants did two thousand years ago.

The grown men in the picture above should be ashamed of themselves.