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Daya
Master gets emergency treatment in Colombo
Daya Master, the LTTE's
Media Spokesman, who was reported seriously ill
following a heart attack, was rushed to the Apollo Hospital,
Colombo, for
emergency treatment on July 12, 2006, following a directive
by President
Mahinda Rajapaksa.
He was escorted by security forces
personnel in traveling to Colombo by road from Kilinochchi.
This followed a request to the Government
by members of the family of Daya Master for help to
get him to Colombo for urgent medical treatment. The
leader of the LTTE's Political Wing, SP Thamilchelvam
had also made this
request.
The decision to facilitate
this key LTTE member being provided emergency
medical treatment in Colombo was a humanitarian gesture
by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, despite the continuing
violence by the LTTE.
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June 26, 2006 |
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Dear
President
I have read that last
month you issued an order stipulating that the cruel
killing of dogs for rabies eradication and dog population
control should be stopped, and more humane methods introduced.
Let me tell you how
delighted I was to receive this good news. I decided
to write to you to show you that your decision meets
with support all over the world. I am sure that more
modern, scientific and humane methods such as mass vaccination
of dogs against rabies and the sterilization of dogs
can be found, and thus, there will be a cruelty-free
solution to the rabies problem.
Mr. President, let me
congratulate you on the path that you have chosen. Please
continue pursuing it. I greatly welcome your pledge
to bring stringent laws against cruelty to animals.
Do not give way to those political forces and vested
interests, which are keen to continue the outdated,
cruel treatment of animals. After all, they are living
and feeling creatures.
Thank you, and please
keep up the good work!
Yours respectfully
Monika Köstner
Germany
Monika Köstner
[monikakoestner@gmx.de]
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June 26, 2006 |
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Dear
Mr. President Rajapaksa,
I learned about the
problem with the street-dogs in Sri Lanka.
It is very prospective
of you to establish humane solutions for this problem.
It shows that Sri Lanka and its government is ethically
ahead compared to many other countries.
Please pass a law for
new humane methods to prevent canine-madness and population
explosion urgently.
Thank you very much
for your humanity!
Kind Regards,
Manuela Ruckerbauer
Manuela Ruckerbauer
[RuckM@web.de]
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June 13, 2006 |
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The
Honorable President of Sri Lanka
H. E. Mahinda Rajapaksa,
"Temple Trees" Colombo Sri Lanka
Mister President,
We recently received
an urgent appeal from our friends in Sri Lanka concerning
the cruel killing of masterless dogs.
Following the Rabies
Prevention Law of 1893, dogs are still routinely captured
and killed by gassing or injecting of painful and lethal
poisons. Some of these killings are done in public,
causing much revulsion.
Appeals by animal protection
societies to introduce humane methods to eradicate rabies
by increased vaccination turned on deaf ears of the
politicians as well as the important proposal of neutering
the animals on a large scale.
It is very well known
that the only efficacious, lasting and human solution
to meet the canine overpopulation is correct sterilizing
and neutering of the dogs.
On the contrary, in cities such as Colombo and Kandy,
the Municipal Authorities, seize and kill even dogs
vaccinated and castrated by animal protection societies
and marked visibly with red collars!!! Several thousand
dogs are cruelly killed in Sri Lanka every year!
You, Mister President,
have introduced strict laws against cruelty to animals,
and you have issued an order in May 2006 that the atrocious
killing of dogs for rabies eradication and dog population
control should be stopped. These noble directions were
part of the celebrations of 2550th birthday of Buddha,
the greatest preacher of compassion and tolerance, who
opposed the taking of all life.
Instead of killing, you want modern, scientific and
humane methods such as mass vaccination of dogs against
rabies and the sterilization of dogs, reacting also
to appeals by members of Sri Lanka's Buddhist clergy
and animal rights activists.
Mister President, we
congratulate you, admiring your efforts to ban cruelty
to animals, especially dogs, thanking you for your courage
and showing you our appreciation for this important
step. We implore you and we encourage you to bring in
this new legislation as fast as possible and ignore
all those who have no respect for the lives of animals
and are willing to continue with the massacres that
you have described as acts of savagery in your political
statement. The world will admire you for your intelligent
and heartfelt acting in favour of the poorest beings,
the animals!
Thanking you once more, we are waiting for your immediate
action and for the favour of your reply!
Yours very respectfully!
Uta Seier-Maltz, responsible
for the CIFAM France (Coordination et Information en
Faveur des Animaux Martyrs) 10 chemin des Constantins,
F-06650 Opio / France, courriel
cifam@wanadoo.fr
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June 9, 2006 |
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Dear
Mr. Rajapaksa,
I would like you to
know that the people in Spain appreciate your
initiative against cruelty to animals and encourage
you to go ahead with your purpose.
We beg you to
bring in new legislation, that will recommend modern,
scientific and humane methods for rabies eradication
and dog population control.
Kindest regards,
Antje Ehlebracht
Journalist
Costa Blanca Zeitung
Costa Nachrichten Verlag S.L.
03720 Benissa (Alicante)
España
Ehlebracht@cbz.es
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June 8, 2006 |
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Attention
President Rajapaksa,
In keeping with your election pledge to have strict
laws against cruelty to animals, I am grateful and pleased
that you issued an order earlier this month (May 2006)
that the cruel killing of dogs for rabies eradication
and dog population control should be stopped, and more
humane methods introduced.
I know that you gave this direction,
as part of the celebrations to mark the 2550th birth
of the Buddha, the greatest preacher of compassion and
tolerance, who opposed the taking of all life. You stated
that officials should stop the cruel killing of dogs
and begin replacing it with more modern, scientific
and humane methods such as mass vaccination of dogs
against rabies and the sterilization of dogs. I pray
this is a sincere response to appeals made to you by
members of Sri Lanka's Buddhist clergy and animal rights
activists.
In order to strengthen your pledge,
I want to thank you very much for your initiative against
cruelty to animals, especially dogs, and urge you to
bring in NEW legislation, that will recommend modern,
scientific and humane methods for rabies eradication
and dog population control. PLEASE STOP THE KILLING!
Sincerely,
Tamara Kreimerman
Red AMMA A.C.
Mexico City
Red AMMA [mailto:redamma@redamma.com]
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June 7, 2006 |
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Aleta Daley Okolicsanyi
112 Broad Street
Norwich, CT 06360
USA
H.E. Mahinda Rajapaksa
President of Sri Lanka
“Temple Trees”
Colombo
Sri Lanka
Dear Excellency:
While my husband and
I were living in Manila, Philippines we took the opportunity
to visit your beautiful country. Spending several days
in Colombo, touring Kandy and Nuwara Eliya, I was only
sorry that we did not have more time to explore other
parts of Sri Lanka. On one of our excursions in Colombo,
our tuk-tuk driver introduced us to a Buddhist Temple,
the interior of which to this day I can recall vividly.
Standing among the life size figures and enveloped by
the story of the Buddha’s life, I felt the power
of his teachings quite palpably: most particularly,
his message of compassion and tolerance. In fact, when
we had first arrived in Colombo I marveled at the harmonious
juxtaposition of different religious shrines, temples,
churches and mosques that existed in Sri Lanka. Sir
Lanka could be a model for many other countries with
multiple faiths. The teachings of the Buddha truly seemed
to resonate in your country.
When I received an
email describing your pledge to implement strict laws
to prevent cruelty to animals, I was deeply moved by
your humanity and moral courage, especially in these
days where savagery inflicted upon a variety of animals
continues from Canada to the US to South America to
China and is often condoned by these governments. To
willfully kill innocent dogs, who are totally dependent
upon human kindness and compassion for their survival,
as a means of controlling the population and rabies
is just another form of depraved indifference. There
are more modern and humane methods for controlling the
unwanted and abandoned dog population as well as eradicating
rabies. Spaying and neutering have proved to be far
more effective and efficacious in the long run.
Your Excellency, your
initiative, as part of the celebrations to mark the
2550th birth of the Buddha, to help both animals and
human beings –in the latter to remember the qualities
that make them human- is an example which I hope that
all our world leaders will follow. For me and I imagine
for many around the world, who are working tirelessly
to improve the welfare of animals, your pledge is an
inspiration. Thank you for your example.
Sincerely,
Aleta Daley Okolicsanyi
USA
okolicsanyi@sbcglobal.net
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June 8, 2006 |
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Dear
Mr. President:
We really appreciate
your initiative against cruelty to animals in your country,
especially dogs, and apply to you not to stop your efforts
in bringing in new legislation, that will recommend
modern, scientific and humane methods for rabies eradication
and dog population control.
With this mail we want to express our support to your
work, and show that your labour is welcome all over
the world.
Don’t lessen your
determination to implement more fully and effectively
your pledge to bring stringent laws against cruelty
to animals, which you had described in your policy statement
as an act of savagery. You are very right in this description,
and the cruel and unnecessary killing of several thousand
dogs every year is surely not acceptable for a civilized
or for a largely Buddhist country.
We were more than shocked
to learn - that modern country still follows a law from
1893 (!!!!), still seizing and killed dogs by gassing
or the injecting of painful and lethal poisons, and
some of this killing is done in public (!!!!),
- that appeals by Animal Rights Activists to introduce
more humane methods for the eradication of rabies; which
has shown a marked drop due to increased vaccination
in recent years; and carry out the sterilizing and neutering
of dogs to control dog population growth have fallen
on the deaf ears of local officials and politicians.
It is more than cruel
and inadmissible that in cities such as Colombo and
Kandy, the Municipal Authorities, seize even the dogs
that have been vaccinated or sterilized, by Animal Rights
Organizations, with red colours on them to show it,
and kill them (!!!!!!).
It is scientifically
proven that the killing of animals doesn’t help
in dog population control or rabies eradication. So
you teach your children only to be cruel to other living
and feeling beings, to disrespect them.
Buddha which 2550th
birth you are celebrating of the Buddha was the greatest
preacher of compassion and tolerance, who opposed the
taking of all life. Please listen to him, and stop the
savage and cruel killing.
Thank you in advance.
Best regards
Elena Martinez
Tierhilfe Anubis
Orihuela/Spain
Elena Martinez [Elena_Martinez@gmx.net]
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June 8, 2006 |
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Dear Mr. President,
I very much appreciate and welcome your Initiative and
Plans against the cruel killing of animals, Most of
all stray dogs.
Killing instead of castrating is medieval practice and
must be replaced with more modern, scientific and humane
methods. We all live in the 21st century ,so there should
be place for rabies eradication and Dog Population control.
As already Buddha knew, when stressing the importance
of compassion and tolerance, all living creatures Are
capable of the Same Feelings and have the Same right
to live . It is not our right to take this life away
from them.
So please, Mr. President Go ahead with your Initiative.
I strongly Support it and admire your Courage to try
leading your Country into a modern state in which there
is also place for animal welfare.
Kind regards
Bianca-Maria Göhrig
Germany
goehrig
[bmgoehrig@yahoo.de]
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June 8, 2006 |
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Dear Mr. President,
I appeal to you, and
show my appreciation to your initiative against cruelty
to animals, especially dogs, and I urge you to bring
in new legislation, that will recommend modern, scientific
and humane methods for rabies eradication and dog population
control.
Thank you
Sincerely
Claudia Röckl
Vienna,
Austria
claudia
roeckl [300] [claudia.roeckl@ams.at]
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June 7, 2006 |
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H.
E. Mahinda Rajapaksa
President of Sri Lanka
”Temple Trees”
Colombo
Sri Lanka
We are very pleased that Sri Lanka is trying now to
find new ways to prevent cruelty against stray dogs.
In our opinion there is a much more
human and much more effective way to control the population
of the strays, and this is a program to castrate them,
vaccinate against rabies, mark them with a microchip
or in some other way and let them out on the streets
again. We are very happy that your country is planning
to go new ways to prevent cruelty and act in a human
way towards the creatures of our planet!
Best regards from Germany
Markus Kapels and Dorothee Mueller
Dorothee Mueller
[meatis-murder@web.de]
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June 7, 2006 |
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Dear
Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa
My husaband and I truly
appreciate your initiative against cruelty to animals,
especially dogs.
We urge you to bring in new legislation, that will recommend
modern, scientific and humane methods for rabies eradication
and dog population control.
With this email we would like to also strengthen your
determination to implement more fully and effectively
your pledge to bring stringent laws against cruelty
to animals, which you have described in your policy
statement as an act of savagery.
Sincerely yours
Petra and Jochen Martin
Munich
Germany
[ingeborg.dc@gmx.de]
Heike & Hartmut Karwatzki
Bassinstr.29 45139 Essen
Germany
Petra Martin
[petra.martin2@gmx.de]
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June 7, 2006 |
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H.
E. Mahinda Rajapakse
President of Sri Lanka
“Temple Trees”
Colombo
Sri Lanka
Your Excellency,
I am writing to you today to applaud and voice my outspoken
support for your efforts to end the cruel killing of
dogs for rabies eradication and stray dog population
control.
So far, Sri Lanka has not had the best of records when
it comes to cruelty to animals, especially dogs. I am
sure you are familiar with the facts - no doubt one
of the reasons you wish to implement changes to the
still common practices of gassing, injection poison
or other otherwise cruelly killing even sterilized and
vaccinated animals.
You described the current
state of affairs as an 'act of savagery' in your policy
statement, and I couldn't agree more.
Sri Lanka is a Buddhist
country, and the great Buddha himself taught that the
taking of all and any life is a sin. All life is sacred.
While it may be difficult
these days to follow the Buddha's teachings in a world
that thrives on greed, brutality and ruthlessness it
is nevertheless of the utmost importance for all of
us to show compassion and consideration wherever possible
to try and keep the forces at bay that would make of
us mere monsters walking the earth ... recklessly destroying
and murdering - each other as well as all other creatures
that, like us, bear the breath of the eternal.
I beg you therefore to speed new legislation on its
way to once and for all do away with the cruel treatment
that is visited upon countless innocents on the streets
of Sri Lanka every day.
Only together
in peace and harmony can we survive, and there are many
humane and modern alternatives presenting themselves
to be utilised to keep the threat of rabies at bay and
to introduce an effective population control that will
end uncontrolled breeding and the resulting suffering.
Thank you for your attention and my very Best wishes
for you continued good work.
Yours most respectfully,
Diana Hartig
Member with the
German Animal Welfare Party
Finkenweg 8
71720 Oberstenfeld
Germany
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June 6, 2006 |
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H.
E. Mahinda Rajapaksa,
President of Sri Lanka.
Dear Mr. President,
Sri Lanka, although a largely Buddhist
country, has a very bad record with regard to cruelty
to animals, especially dogs. Still following a Rabies
Prevention Law of 1893, dogs are still routinely seized
and killed by gassing or the injecting of painful and
lethal poisons. Some of this killing is done in public,
causing much revulsion.
Appeals by Animal Rights Activists
to introduce more humane methods for the eradication
of rabies; which has shown a marked drop due to increased
vaccination in recent years; and carry out the sterilizing
and neutering of dogs to control dog population growth
have fallen on the deaf ears of local officials and
politicians. In cities such as Colombo and Kandy, the
Municipal Authorities, seize even the dogs that have
been vaccinated or sterilized, by Animal Rights Organizations,
with red colours on them to show it, and kill them.
Several thousand dogs are cruelly killed in Sri Lanka
every year.
As new President, Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa,
issued an order earlier this month (May 2006) that the
cruel killing of dogs for rabies eradication and dog
population control should be stopped, and more humane
methods introduced.
He gave this direction, as part
of the celebrations to mark the 2550th birth of the
Buddha, the greatest preacher of compassion and tolerance,
who opposed the taking of all life. The President said
officials should take stop the cruel killing of dogs
and begin replacing it with more modern, scientific
and humane methods such as mass vaccination of dogs
against rabies and the sterilization of dogs. He was
responding to appeals made to him by members Sri Lanka’s
Buddhist clergy and animal rights activists.
Dear Mr. President, please be assured that thousands
of citizens all over the world are highly appreciating
your initiative against cruelty to animals. Please therefore
we all are urgently waiting for your bringing in the
new legislation introducing modern, scientific and humane
methods to get under control rabies and the population
of dogs - and cats too please.
All animals are beings and we as
human beings have to share the world with them, not
to distinguish variety in beings and plants on our earth!
Thank you!
Elisabeth Richter, A 2345
Austria
[e.richter@kabsi.at]
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Dear
Mr. President,
Thank you for your intention
to stop the cruel killing of dogs and begin replacing
it with modern, scientific and humane methods such as
mass vaccination of dogs against rabies and the sterilization
of dogs.
As a large Buddhist
country you can show the world what real humanity means.
Real humanity includes animals.
Best Regards
Dr. Ernst W. Henrich
Dr. Thomas Baumann
Germany
Dr. Ernst
W. Henrich [henrich@dr-baumann.com]
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Attention
President Rajapaksa:
As I have heard there
are plans to introduce strict laws against cruelty to
animals, that the cruel killing of dogs for rabies eradication
and dog population control should be stopped, and more
humane methods introduced.
I do very appreciate
your plans and that's why I urge you to bring in new
legislation, that will recommend modern, scientific
and humane methods for rabies eradication and dog population
control.
Of course, populations of stray dogs and the rabies
must be controlled but certainly not by a slaughter.
In my eyes, the only practicable way to solve the problem
of stray dogs is the method of neutering and return
to the place, which the dog inhabits. This method has
been applied successfully in countries from the Middle
East, Asia and Eastern Europe.
The health and the veterinary
experts claim that this is the only reliable and economically
advantageous method for permanent limitation of the
population of stray dogs in the residential areas. The
comprehensive study of the World Health Organization
and the World Society for the Protection of Animals
published in May 1990 “Guidelines for Dog Population
Management“ WHO/ZOON/90.166 proves the method
scientifically.
The approval of the
method NEUTERING AND RETURN to ALL the dogs will bring
Sri Lanka the respect of the International community.
Sincerely,
Peter Beck
Wallruetistrasse 115
8404 Winterthur
Switzerland
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June 2, 2006 |
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Thomas
Wachter
Heilmannstr. 51
82049 Pullach
Germany
His Excellency Mahinda Rajapaksa
President of Sri Lanka
Colombo
Stopping Cruelty to dogs
Your Excellency,
I am very pleased to
learn that Your Excellency has issued an order to stop
the seizing and killing of dogs in Sri Lanka, which
I know is done under an antiquated law in your country,
introduced during British colonial rule. Animal Rights
activists in Sri Lanka have been trying very hard to
rescind this law, but have so far had no success.
I am aware of Sri Lanka’s Buddhist culture, therefore,
it is of special significance that Your Excellency gave
this order to mark the 2550th anniversary of the birth
of the Buddha, and by this means began the process of
eliminating this cruel treatment of dogs in Sri Lanka.
While this courageous and timely action of Your Excellency
deserves congratulations from those who believe in compassion
towards animals, it is also necessary that your directive
is followed on with new legislation for the eradication
of rabies and dog population control, to be done in
a humane manner using modern, scientific methods.
I wish you all success in bringing new legislation for
the eradication of rabies and also to prevent cruelty
to animals.
Thank you.
Sincerely
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June 2, 2006 |
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H.
E. Mahinda Rajapaksa
President of Sri Lanka
"Temple Trees"
Colombo
Sri Lanka
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your compassion re the cruel killing of
dogs. Please bring in human methods for rabies eradication
and dog population control.
Gandhi said,
The Greatness of a Nation and It's Moral Progress can
be Judged by the way it Treat's It's Animals
You could show the world just how great and compassionate
you really are. In doing so show the world there are
other ways.
Yours Sincerely,
Sylvia Raye.
[bowraye@iimetro.com.au]
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An urgent appeal to help stop cruel killing
of dogs in Sri Lanka |
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Background
Sri Lanka, although a largely Buddhist country, has
a very bad record with regard to cruelty to animals,
especially dogs. Still following a Rabies Prevention
Law of 1893, dogs are still routinely seized and killed
by gassing or the injecting of painful and lethal poisons.
Some of this killing is done in public, causing much
revulsion.
Appeals by Animal Rights Activists to introduce more
humane methods for the eradication of rabies; which
has shown a marked drop due to increased vaccination
in recent years; and carry out the sterilizing and neutering
of dogs to control dog population growth have fallen
on the deaf ears of local officials and politicians.
In cities such as Colombo and Kandy, the Municipal Authorities,
seize even the dogs that have been vaccinated or sterilized,
by Animal Rights Organizations, with red colours on
them to show it, and kill them. Several thousand dogs
are cruelly killed in Sri Lanka every year.
Best Regards
Rosa Mertens
Animal suffering
Belgium
Rosa Mertens
[mertens.rosa@skynet.be] |
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