2005 EuroBasketball
Belgrade
Stained With Blood

Wednesday, Sep 14 2005, 4:46pm

The 2005 European Basketball Championship in Belgrade, Sponsored by FIBA (Federation Internationale de Basketball) is stained with blood due to the massive and brutal extermination of thousands of companion animals.

Prior to the current Serbian administration, Serbian politicians promised to improve animal welfare laws; yet horrifying conditions for all animals still exists in Serbia today.

These same politicians ignore the constant pleas and cries from their own citizens and individuals abroad including Brigitte Bardot, to stop the torture and murder of animals.

There are volumes of photographs depicting the barbaric methods used by the Serbian government to administer animal control. These animal control methods were employed at an accelerated rate prior to the European Basketball Championship.

Serbian streets continue to be inundated with companion animals. Animal control in Serbia consists of: paying hunters a bounty for each animal killed (hunters present the animal's tail for payment), poison such as T-61 and Kreozan which kills by suffocation, drenching the animal with gasoline and burning them to death and other barbaric methods such as beating, stoning and hanging.

This past year, these brutal killings have accelerated in the capital city of Belgrade in what seems to be a state sponsored massacre. Memories of the "war" die hard! The government's objective appears to be to present the city as an attractive destination for tourists visiting sporting events such as the "Belgrade Marathon" and the "European Basketball Championship".

The Serbian situation is an instant replay of the massacre of animals to "tidy" the streets and Olympic venues for the onslaught of tourists to the 2004 Athens Olympics! As will be, the China Olympics.

Sadly, even dogs that are sterilized (spayed / neutered) by reputable organizations such as "Foundation Brigitte Bardot" and fed by animal loving Serbian citizens, have disappeared.

According to reports from advocates on the ground, what is even more astonishing, is the lack of coverage by the Serbian media of this slaughter. Serbian media continues to portray friendly dogs as rabid, vicious killers to their audience which makes one wonder, have things really changed since the media controlled Milosevic regime?