Mass animal sacrifice at Nepal's Gadhimai Festival

In the village in southern Nepal Bariyapur this Friday began a holiday in honor of the goddess Gadhimai. About three million pilgrims came there to bring her to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of animals which, according to local beliefs, the faithful should ensure material prosperity and well-being. Massacre of animals in Nepal is a cruel ritual slaughter of hundreds of thousands of animals in the name of the old religious tradition.

Feast Gadhimai Mela is held every five years in the church in the village of Bariyapur, where the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of animals. Nepalis come to this festival with their entire families.

In Barijapur attracts millions of people from Nepal and from the northern Indian state of Bihar, which is one of the poorest regions in India. Feast Gadhimai Mela for the inhabitants of Nepal is one of the most important events in their lives.

Nepalese animal welfare advocates protest against this cruel custom, calling it a barbaric and inhumane. Most often, a gift to the goddess Gadhimai bring buffaloes, goats and birds.

During the last holiday Gadhimai Mela, in 2009, was killed by three hundred thousand to half a million animals.

Ritual slaughter of animals in the Nepalese village Barijapur lasts two days. According to the organizers of this cruel event, a gift to the goddess Gadhima can be brought about half a million animals.

It is the world's largest blood sacrifice, which brings in the name of the deity adherents of Hinduism. In place of the massacre in the village Barijapur came as animal welfare advocates, they need to give up the centuries-old tradition of offering blood sacrifices and offerings to replace the ritual slaughter of fruits and vegetables.

Animal sacrifice to the goddess Gadhimai must provide believers welfare and prosperity. But animal welfare advocates instead of blood sacrifices as gifts to the goddess smash coconuts near the scene of ritual slaughter.

Animal rights protests once again been rejected by the authorities of a Hindu temple, who believe that only the blood of the faithful will present the favor of the goddess Gadhimai.

Bloody holiday in Barijapur contrary to the popular belief of Hinduism as a religion does not recognize violence.

Buffalo walks among thousands of dead animals that were sacrificed to the goddess Gadhimai Bariyapur village in southern Nepal.