Delegate slams animal lovers - Malaysiakini
The next
delegate, Zainuri Zainal from Selangor, heavily criticised a disabled rights
group for staging a protest over the Kuala Langat Municipal Council's
decision to put nine dogs to sleep.
Zainuri singled out disabled
rights group Independent Living and Training Centre as the organiser,
claiming that they were attempting to instill public hatred against the
authorities.
'Are dogs more noble than man?... This is a normal
tactic used by the opposition to draw public ire against the authorities,'
asked Zainuri while debating the presidential address.
Several
disabled rights activists held a protest on Sept 24 to condemn the council
for euthanising nine dogs belonging to a suspect in the murder of Sosilawati
Lawiya and three others.
The group claimed that the dogs found on a
poultry farm in Banting could have been handled by the Department of
Veterinary Services (DVS) or other animal welfare groups for assistance.
The council has since claimed that they were forced to put the dogs to
sleep because they were posing a danger to the police personnel in the
vicinity who were investigating the murder.
Umno's 'cheap shot' at animal rights ruffles feathers -
Malaysiakini.com
S Pathmawathy
Oct 22, 10
Animal rights and
welfare groups today demanded an apology from Selangor
Umno Youth
delegate Zuinuri Zainal, who had accused them of attempting to incite
public hatred against the government.
�We are very upset and shocked
by this statement. We were criticised for speaking up for other living
beings, going beyond our (own) difficulties to think of somebody else's,�
said Anthony Thanasayan, the president of Malaysian Animal-Assisted Therapy
for the Disabled and Elderly Association (Petpositive).
He was
referring to Selangor delegate *Zainuri Zainal* <http://malaysiakini.com/news/145890>
who at the Youth debates at Umno's 61th general assembly on Wednesday
blasted a disabled rights group for protesting against the Kuala Langat
Municipal Council for putting nine dogs to sleep on Sept 19.
[image:
police search Sosilawati Lawiya afp 1]
The dogs were put down by
lethal tranquillisers at the poultry farm in Sungai Gadung, the scene of the
alleged murder of cosmetics millionaire Sosilawati Lawiya.
Several
days later disabled rights group Independent Living and Training Centre and
Petpositive had staged a protest against the municipal council, saying the
dogs could have been handled by the Department of Veterinary Services (DVS)
or other animal welfare groups.
The council has since defended their
actions saying that the dogs had posed a danger to police personnel
investigating the murder case.
Zainuri at the assembly described
their actions as an attempt to �draw public ire against the authorities�.
�If (you) nothing positive to say about the disabled, please keep your
mouth shut,� said Thanasayan of Zainuri's outburst.
�If you want to
speak about the disabled at the Umno meeting speak about the problems we
are having in getting jobs, and lack of support.
�But if you have the
audacity to criticise us for doing something nice and right for
defenceless creatures, he should be ashamed and apologise to us,� he
said, chiding the Umno delegate for using them for �cheap publicity�.
*Implied of being 'terrorist'*
Malaysian Animal Welfare Society
president Shenaaz Khan also blasted Zainuri
for suggesting that the
protest was instigate by the Pakatan Rakyat government.
[image: mps
dog hunt protest 220907 doggie] Shenaaz said that the suggestion was absurd
as the groups were there on their own independent capacity, and their
protest was against the Pakatan-run municipal council.
�He has
suggested that (the protestors) are cheap, shallow and that they are for
sale, and he implied that they are terrorist by trying to 'instill public
hatred',� she said.
�I don't know what kind of ignorance permeates
through Umno. They continue to make these stupid statements.
Shenaaz added that since the protest, the Selangor government has taken
their complaints into consideration and has come up with new guidelines on
how municipal councils should act in such cases.
*VIDEO | 06:49 min
*<http://www.malaysiakini.tv/video/20355/umnos-cheap-shot-at-animal-rights-ruffles-feathers.html>
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