HelpForTheHelpless] (India) Baby elephant's ears severed, legs axed by mahouts

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gauri govind

 

03:53pm Mon 13-10-2008

Manorama news TV channel today showed a video of elephant harassment.

In the video the mahouts of a 3 year old baby elephant Kannan of the Evoor

Srikrishnaswamy temple in Mavelikkara in kerala cuts the elephant's ears with a

big knife, cuts the elephant's legs with the sickle knife like striking with a

knife on wood. The elephants body, eyes all parts have been cut, bruised,

beaten by the cruel mahouts and the elephant was rolling in pain. The incident

happened yesterday afternoon as a ritual by mahouts as part of tieing it, on

the land behind the temple, reports the channel. One of its ear is almost

severed. The elephant with blood oozing from wound was rolling with pain. It was

tied to a tree tightly with chains. When people surrounded the mahouts smeared

mud on its wound and dragged the

unhealthy bleeding elephant away, the news channel reported. I recorded it

with my mobile and is attached with this mail. Most of the

mahouts are mentally unstable. This is the most cruel thing that I have seen

that too to a baby elephant. Such mahouts should be given

psychiatric treatment. Otherwise they will harm humans also.

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gg