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2009年11月27日星期五

Last Indo-Chinese Tiger? We have eaten it...

Two men have killed and eaten the very possible late Indo-Chinese tiger in February, Yunnan. The plice has arrested these two and asks for a compesation of 480,000 Yuan.

As the two villager says, they killed the tiger accidentally. They two went out to the river to get some white blotched snappers. Suddenly, one of them saw something shining in the trees on the other side of the river. He fired, and when they came near they found out it was a tiger. Happily, they called out more people to strip the tiger and share the meats and bones.

Then in March, there were a lot of rumors about a rare animal having been killed by some villagers, and these attracted the Police's attention. In June, Policemen found the bone and the tiger head in the house of one of the villagers. The two men who killed the tiger then gave themselves up to the Police.

What is intersting is the comments of the Internet Buddy. Most of them seem to be in the villagers' side. They argue that it is self-defence and they should not be punished. Some of them question about the compensation. Where will it go to? Who benefits from this large amount of money? Some of them compares the punishment of killing a tiger and killing a man, and the conclusion is men in China is much cheaper than an animal.

The court has not yet made any decision on this case, but there is one thing certainly: the two villagers cannot afford this large number of compesantion.

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