A temple in Sothern Nepal celebrates a festival once in every five years in which hundreds of animals are scarified to the Hindu goddess of power Gadhimai. And this year it’s due to take place on November 24 and 25.
But this year, the animal right group is protesting against it and forcing the Nepal government to stop it because they believe its senseless sacrifice innocent animals due to people’s superstitions. Pramada Shah, director of campaign group animal Nepal has launched a campaign to stop this gruesome killing of animals in the name god.
The campaign received a strong support from the Ram Bahadur Bomjam, a young Nepalese man believed by followers to be a reincarnation of Buddha; he said he could survive without water, food or sleep. Bomjam was meditating from past many years in Nepal. He broke his silence to protest against this festival and stop the cruelty.
In India today there is greater awareness about animal sacrifice and suffering, so people and animal rights activist are against it. Some states in India have even banned animal slaughter for religious purpose. So all this factors have major advantage to stop this festival in Nepal.
The Nepal’s government says they have already pledged 4.5 million rupees in funding for the festival and authorities says they have no power to stop this festival. In 2004 around 80,000 people attended the festival. So, this year they are expecting even more crowd to attend the festival.
Finally the Nepal government stated
“We are not forcing devotees to sacrifice animals. It is an age-old practice and it must continue. The festival will lose its charm and become meaningless if we break with tradition.”
People for Ethical treatment of animals are its best to stop the festival as its very terrified cruelty towards the innocent animals.
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