A 12-month investigation by the BBC’s World Service has reportedly exposed a global monkey torture ring stretching from Indonesia to the United States.
The BBC found that customers across the UK, USA, Australia, and other countries were paying individuals in Indonesia sometimes thousands of dollars to torture and kill baby long-tailed macaques on camera including via amputations, decapitations, and drownings.
Some of the monkeys had developed physical tics from the stress inflicted upon them in the videos, many of which were shared widely across social media, according to the BBC. Many of the monkeys later died from their injuries.
The torture ring reportedly began on YouTube, before moving to private groups on the encrypted messaging app Telegram, according to the BBC, with at least one of the groups, known as the “Ape’s Cage,” containing nearly 400 members….