Brutal matanza de animales en el Festival de Gadhimai

#2 About 5 million people participate in the festival, Madheshis and 70% of the devotees are the people from the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Attending the festival in Nepal circumvents the ban on animal sacrifice in their own states.[2][3] Participants believe that animal sacrifices to the Hindu goddess Gadhimai will end evil and bring prosperity.[4][5]

A month before the ritual in 2009, the Madheshi politicians realized there would be a "severe shortage" of goats for the ritual sacrifice, as well as for the consumption of goat meat during the festival. They began a radio campaign urging farmers to sell their animals.[6]

The festival started in the first week of November 2009 and ended in the first week of December (up to makar sankranti), the fair has a custom of animal sacrifice that occurred on November 24 & 25 in the year 2009, with the temple's head priest performing ritual sacrifice called Saptabali which includes the sacrifice of white mice, pigeons, roosters, ducks, swine and male water buffaloes. More than 20,000 buffaloes were sacrificed on the first day.[7] It is estimated that 500,000 animals were killed during the Gadhimai festival of 2009.[2] The ritual killings were performed by more than 200 men in a concrete slaughterhouse near the temple.[8] Three infant children of Indian pilgrims who had come to observe Gadhimai festival died due to the extreme cold.[7] Six Indians died after drinking adulterated "hooch".[3]

Fuente
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadhimai_festival