Council reviews Aboriginal hunting rights
TRADITIONS: The Council of Grand Justices is to issue an interpretation within one month on whether laws limiting hunting and firearms infringe on Aboriginal rights
By Wu Cheng-feng and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter,
with staff writer and CNA
Oral arguments began on Tuesday in a case that is to determine whether laws restricting hunting and firearms infringe on the constitutional rights of Aborigines.
The case stems from the August 2013 arrest of Bunun hunter Tama Talum, also known as Wang Guang-lu (王光祿), after he was found in possession of two dead protected animals and a shotgun.
The man from Taitung County’s Haiduan Township (海端) said during a trial that he hunted the animals for his ailing 94-year-old mother.