‘Spattered with blood and shaking with fear’: the Indonesian market where dogs are butchered and blowtorched

Disturbing video footage of dogs being butchered and their hair burnt off with blowtorches at markets in Indonesia has prompted howls of protest from animal rights activists.
Campaigners from the Dog Meat-Free Indonesia group are urging authorities to shut down the country’s live animal markets, where they say thousands of dogs and cats are bludgeoned to death each week.
Video filmed by the activists at markets in Tomohon and Langowan cities on Sulawesi island shows a stomach-churning…