From Bangkok Post
HANOI – Nearly 70 people in a village in central Vietnam have confessed to beating two suspected dog thieves to death, to protest against the sentencing last month of 10 other villagers for the crime, authorities said on Thursday.
Dogs behing held captive in Vietnam. Photo from AP.
“They all confessed to beating the two men suspected of stealing dogs to death and are ready to take responsibility,” Pham Van Hung, a local police chief in Quang Tri province, told dpa.
During the trial on March 28, six men received jail terms of up to three years and four others were given suspended sentences for beating to death two men who entered the village in August 2012. Residents suspected the pair were behind a recent spate of dog thefts in the area.
“The sentences for our villagers were unfair,” said one local resident who declined to be named. “We want the court to release them, or at least reduce their jail terms.”
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