Nepali activists rallied in Kathmandu on Friday calling for an end to religious animal sacrifices, months ahead of a festival that in the past has seen tens of thousands of animals slaughtered.
Some of the more than 100 protestors wore fake buffalo, pig and chicken heads, as they chanted against a practice deeply rooted in the country's Hindu traditions.
"This is wrong and must stop," Sneha Shrestha of the Federation of Animal Welfare Nepal told AFP.
"We are all equal in God's eyes, God will not ask for (the) sacrifice of her own children."
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