what the hell?!! i could understand these peeps being sad, being angry but this is like the most extreme case of vengeance that i've ever heard of. so a man stumbles in a croc reserve and farm while gathering grass feed for livestock and he is attacked. employees responded but the man still died of his injuries. then after his funeral, an angry mob of funeral attendees pickup knives, machetes, clubs, hammers, etc. and slaughter 292 crocodiles. so much death.
story and graphic pix here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...sia/787388002/
another article here: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-i...-idUSKBN1K60HQMob slaughters nearly 300 crocodiles in wildlife preserve after Indonesia man is killed
A mob in Indonesia armed with knives, hammers and clubs slaughtered nearly 300 crocodiles at a wildlife sanctuary after a man was killed by one of the reptiles.
Basar Manullang, the head of the local Natural Resources and Conservation Agency in West Papua, said Monday that 292 crocodiles, from babies to full-grown adults, were killed by dozens of villagers on Saturday following the funeral of a 48-year-old man who was attacked after entering an area around the creatures’ breeding pond.
Photographs taken after the incident showed a large pile of bloodied carcasses in the Sorong district, which is in the far east of Indonesia.
Manullang told The Jakarta Post that it was thought the victim, Sugito, was looking for animal feed Friday when he was attacked. (Indonesians often have just one name.)
A local resident, Olga, added details: "His family said that Sugito, who worked at a tofu factory, was looking for grass for his cattle when a local resident heard him shouting for help but [...] Sugito was found dead," he told The Post.
The crocodile farm was run legally and had an official permit issued by the Environment and Forestry Ministry, Manullang said.
"The crocodile slaughter violated the law on destroying others' property," he added.
According to England’s Guardian newspaper, Manullang said the sanctuary had been granted a license in 2013 to breed protected saltwater and New Guinea crocodiles for preservation and also to harvest some of them. But one of the conditions was that the reptiles did not disturb the community, Manullang added.
“To prevent this from happening again, farming licence holders need to secure surrounding areas,” he said.
Manullang said his agency was coordinating with the police in their investigation into the incident.
Edit: and then they ended up burning all the dead crocs. i don't think any were at least harvested. so much death and such waste.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/indonesian...073919368.html
seriously WTF?!!Indonesian authorities burn carcasses of hundreds of crocodiles
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian authorities have burnt the carcasses of nearly 300 crocodiles slaughtered by villagers retaliating for the death of a man attacked by a reptile from a breeding farm, a government official said on Tuesday.
After the victim's burial, an angry mob armed with knives, hammers and clubs burst into the farm area and bludgeoned to death 292 of the protected reptiles.
"The dead crocodiles have been burnt and buried around the farming area," Basar Manullang, a conservation official in the province of West Papua, said in a text message.
Photos showed the crocodiles had been placed in a large pit in the ground, along with wood for kindling, and set alight.
The 48-year-old victim had entered the crocodile farm in the Sorong district and was thought to be picking grass for animal feed when he was attacked.
Manullang said the farm had been given a licence to breed protected saltwater and New Guinea crocodiles in 2013 for preservation and also to harvest some of the animals.
The eastern area of Papua has a special dispensation that allows some of the crocodiles to be exploited for skin, spawning a retail industry in items from belts to bags and shoes made from the skin of the reptiles.
Muhammad Nur, who owns the Crocodile Craft Centre based in the Papuan port of Merauke, said the conservation agency only allowed medium-sized crocodiles to be used.
"Big crocodiles are for breeding and small crocodiles are still babies," he said, adding that his business used skins from saltwater crocodiles.
Police had been unable to repel the attack on the breeding farm by the angry villagers, Sorong police chief Dewa Made Sidan Sutrahna said by telephone.
Witnesses will be questioned to determine if the breeding farm had been negligent and any laws broken in killing protected crocodiles, he added.
An animal welfare group urged that those responsible be held accountable for the killing of the crocodiles.
"The government needs to show its firmness in handling animal rights," said Ode Kalashnikov of International Animal Rescue in Indonesia.
While keeping crocodiles on a farm was not ideal, releasing them into the wild meant they risked being killed by poachers, he said, pointing to recent reports of an elephant being poisoned and an orangutan shot in Indonesia.
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