Animals are suffering terrible fates because of a frightening breakdown of law and order in Zimbabwe.
Recently, fueled by internal politics, the city council of Gweru ordered the shooting of any wandering donkeys, even if they had owners. We urgently need your help to STOP this!
Nineteen donkeys died. Council workers forced one owner to unhitch his donkey and shot it in front of him.
There’s a terrible drought in Zimbabwe and so many owners have no option but to allow their donkeys to roam to find food.
But this offended factions within the council, hence the massacre order. The innocent donkeys were mown down because they were pawns in some local political game.
The smell of corruption deepens…
Stray animals are supposed to be taken to Gweru’s municipal pound, but the council has converted it into a bus terminus! Yet the staff are still paid… to look after a facility that doesn’t exist.
We are taking this very seriously. No shelter equals dead donkeys. We MUST STOP further killings!
Local activists took the crime to court and the council was found guilty of illegally killing donkeys, and ordered to pay the owners compensation. It didn’t happen, the government prosecutor insisted that the case be referred to the high court, and now local donkey owners will get nothing, unless we can help them find funding.
We need your help to allow activists to pursue legal action. If we don’t keep the pressure on, donkeys will die, corruption will go unpunished and Zimbabwe will slip a little further into animal anarchy. Your donation is desperately needed to help us fight this.
The legal system still functions in Zimbabwe, but the brave men and women who dare to take the rich and powerful to court face financial and professional difficulties.
We need your help, because if we don’t stop this, it will be open season for councils throughout Zimbabwe to implement similar, heartless policies!
If at all possible, please make a donation to the Political Animal Lobby today. We will use your donation to fight for the animals, no matter what it takes.
Thank you in advance for your help in saving the donkeys of Zimbabwe.
For the animals,
Andrea Matthee
Lead Campaigner
Political Animal Lobby
P.S. As an animal lover you know that sometimes the only way to help animals is to pressure governments to take action, pass strict laws and see that they are enforced. That’s what we do, but we can’t do it without your help. We must fight this case in the courts! Please donate generously to PAL right now.
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