These are the horrific scenes after a mass slaughter of 250
whales in the Faroe Islands.
The pods of pilot whales were rounded
up by fisherman on motorboats and chased inland to where hundreds of
villagers were waiting to hack them to death.
Locals can then be seen smiling as they leap into the water in
wetsuits armed with knives and harpoons to slab them to death.
The water around the mammals can be seen turning red with the
creature’s blood throughout the massacre.
Young children can even be seen watching on from the shoreline.
Five activists from Sea Shepherd were arrested while trying to stop
the hunt while Ricky Gervais condemned the massacre on Twitter.
The killings on two beaches in Bøur and Tórshavn is part of an
annual tradition in the Denmark-owned Faroe Islands called the
grindadráp. The tradition dates back hundreds of years.
Whale hunting is illegal in Denmark but allowed in the Faroe
Islands.
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