KATHMANDU, NOV 26 - Animal Welfare Network Nepal (AWNN) and Anti-Animal Sacrifice Alliance said on Thursday that the slaughter of some 16,000 buffaloes ranked ‘among the worst examples of cruelty against animals in the world’.

The Gadhimai Festival Organising committee failed to provide space where animals could get a new lease of life, an AWNN press statement said. 

The animals were transported haphazardly and were not fed or even given water before the sacrifice, said AWNN. During the sacrifice, the animals were left untethered and no instruction was issued to sharpen knives, thereby leading to even more unnecessary suffering.  Also, there was no drainage facility for the blood nor were the carcasses removed in time. 

Till an hour before the buffalo slaughter started, campaigners tried to convince organisers to cancel the killing and instead pierce the ears of the animals to let some blood flow.

According to the statement, “Thousands of buffaloes were standing in an enclosure when butchers with swords started hacking randomly. Some heads were severed in one stroke, but generally, it took the butchers a long time to kill a buffalo. Not only organisers but the government at large should be held responsible for the Gadhimai killings.”

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