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A shocking picture which has been circulating on social networks Facebook and Twitter-2015, showing a poor donkey tied to a UN vehicle being dragged by the “men of peace”. This picture that shames the United Nations has not so far raised any response to this blatant act of abuse, to an animal that has done nothing to them, by a supposed human institution.
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