(IN): MLA keeps his promise, wages WAR against animals and protectors

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Didnt he say so?

 

Didnt he go on record saying, * " I will wage a war against elephants " .*

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080208/jsp/northeast/story_8875640.jsp

 

Yes, he did. But then NO ACTION WAS TAKEN by our enforcement agencies

against the offendor.

How shameless we are to just ignore the threats of that man whose guts have

snowballed into this:

*“I am known as the king of this area and I will behave like a king.

Earlier, kings went hunting and I will also hunt animals,”*

*http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=mar2009/at05*

I am attaching a mail sent to the Director Project elephant barely a month

back where I once again highlighted the evil intentions of this MLA who

after chasing wild gerds of elephants spraying bullets from an AK-47 has now

brandished the same weapon to a Range officer.

 

Who is next ??? Any Guesses?

 

Azam Siddiqui

 

 

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:22 AM, azam24x7 <azam24x7 wrote:

 

> Kind attention: Director Project Elephant

>

> Shri. A.N. Prasad

> Director (Project Elephant)

> Government of India

> Ministry of Environment & Forests

> Paryawaran Bhawan, CGO Complex

> Lodi Road, NEW DELHI - 110 003 INDIA

> E-Mail : gajendra

> Phone # 91-11-24360549

> Fax # 91-11-24360678

> Sub: SOS for Elephants in Northeast India

>

> Sir,

>

> With a heavy heart and with possibly an extremely low hope of a miracle, I

> sit down to send this SOS on behalf of the wild population of elephants

> which are facing 'terrorism' of the worst kind out here in the jungles and

> forests of Northeast India.

>

> Sir, kindly refer to the news article that appeared in today's The

> Telegraph:

> Pregnant elephant killed, mutilated in Sivasagar

> http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090227/jsp/guwahati/story_10597850.jsp

>

> It may be noted that this is not the first of its kind stray incident that

> can be put aside as 'unfortunate'.

> This is something that we all know is being happening and shall intensify

> in the days to come.

> Politicians claiming to 'WAGE A WAR' against elephants has gone on record.

> There has been incidents of chasing wild herds spraying bullets from

> sophisticated weapons by civilians, also on record.

> See archive news links below:

> Link:

> http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080208/jsp/northeast/story_8875640.jsp

> MLA teaches herd a lesson

> - Marauding elephants chased back to Kaziranga after 'war'

>

> There have been several incidents of elephant herds being provoked and

> chased by people in Nagaland into Assam because of land dispute and other

> political issues (Most of which has again been repeatedly reported in the

> news media).

>

> We all know that there are several Militant camps of several insurgent

> outfits inside protected areas and elephant corridors. How safe are our

> elephants inside is anybody's guess as civilians or even security personnel

> are not allowed entry inside these camps. Reason being that they are on a

> ceasefire, by having said that they carry sophisticated arms

> and ammunitions.

>

> We all are aware that many poachers arrested here in Assam have confessed

> to have received their training and weapons from insurgent groups.

>

> Sir, perhaps you are already aware of the issues I have brought to your

> notice and also more such issues involving elephants in crisis.

> But sir, as an animal person I am not aware of what steps the

> 'Project Elephant' has undertaken to address these issues and more.

>

>

> With warm regards,

>

> Yours sincerely,

>

>

> Azam Siddiqui

>

> Master Trainer in Animal Welfare

> Animal Welfare Board of India

>

> P.S: Please see the attached picture of the murder of the elephant scanned

> from a newspaper.

>

> http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090227/jsp/guwahati/story_10597850.jsp

>

>

> Pregnant elephant killed, mutilated in Sivasagar

> OUR CORRESPONDENT

>

> *Dibrugarh, Feb. 26:* Villagers living on the edge of Abhayapur reserve

> forest in Sivasagar today woke up to the sight of a pregnant elephant lying

> in a pool of blood, its tail, the tip of the trunk and right ear chopped off

> and taken away.

>

> Though poachers are the prime suspects, criminals from Nagaland — the

> reserve forest shares a 20-km boundary with the state — could have also

> killed the elephant for its meat.The gory sight of the elephant with its ear

> hacked off and the rest of the trunk almost severed moved to tears even the

> villagers who have been enraged by the rampages of a herd of elephants in

> the area for the past few days. The slain elephant belonged to the same

> herd.

>

> The villagers said they heard two gunshots around 9 last night, but did not

> venture out in the dark.

>

> “Moreover, we thought there could be militants around. But when we came out

> of our houses this morning, we saw this ghastly sight,” Lakhi Bhumij, who

> was the first to spot the elephant carcass, said.

>

> Lakhi was on her way to the forest in the morning when she saw the elephant

> lying in a pool of blood that spilled out from a deep gash around its trunk

> and neck.

>

> “For some moments I was numb with shock. Then I screamed and ran towards

> our house and woke up my husband (Narayan) and other villagers. It was a

> horrifying scene,” she said.

>

> Though the motive of the ruthless killing could not be ascertained, the

> killers could not take away much off their “booty”, although they apparently

> tried to as is evident from the wounds and the hacking of the entire trunk.

>

> Subodh Talukdar, the ranger of Sonari, under which the forest reserve

> falls, said over phone that a team of forest and police personnel and a

> magistrate had gone to the spot for investigation.

>

> “No bullet marks have been found on the animal till now. We are trying to

> find out whether the elephant was shot dead or poisoned,” he added.

>

> A villager said the herd, comprising about 30 to 35 elephants, had been

> invading Janokipathar for the past three days in search of food.

>

> “There has been no rain for a long period and generally there is an acute

> shortage of fodder inside the forest during winter,” another villager said.

>

> Many villagers of Janokipathar, which has 23 families, all from the ex-tea

> community, paid their last respects to the elephant.

>

> Sources said shortage of forest department personnel had encouraged

> poachers and timber smugglers to operate in the reserve forest.

>

> The Abhayapur reserve forest, spread over 6737.98 hectares, has three camps

> at present — Lesai, Singlo and Kherbari, the last being 3km from

> Janokipathar.

>

> Lesai is located inside the reserve forest while Singlo and Kherbari are on

> the periphery.

>

> A section of armed personnel from the Assam Forest Protection Force is

> posted at Kherbari. Lesai has three unarmed forest personnel and one platoon

> of the Assam Police Battalion. Singlo has just four unarmed forest staff.

>

> The forest department has abolished two camps, Godapani and Joymati, which

> used to be located inside the reserve forest, because of shortage of

> manpower.

>

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