(IN): Serial killer 'Steel Monster' strikes again

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Guwahati, Thursday, April 23, 2009

Serial killer 'Steel Monster' strikes again

 

A young elephant calf was crushed to death by a speeding train in an area

which is EXTREMELY VULNERABLE to train elephant deaths in the past.

 

Deepor Beel a Ramsar Site wetland sandwiched between the city of Guwahati

and the Rani-Garbhanga forest (bordering Meghalaya state) has been a hot

spot for elephant herds.

Elephant herds just love spending quality time there in the wetland and they

come in large herds from the forests as if it were a ritual.

Sometimes they stay for as long as 20days at a stretch.

 

It is only after the mighty Indian Railways decided to lay their jaws of

death, that one after one the monster trains have been crushing these gentle

giants at regular intervals.

 

Today's incident is not just an unfortunate stray incident or a rare

accident.

Instead, this is plain and simple calculated murder.

Something that would certainly not require the skills of Sherlock Holmes to

prove.

 

It has been happening and it has been ignored to the maximum.

 

The Forest Department knows this shall happen.

The Project Elephant knows this shall happen.

Even the common person here knows that this shall happen soon again.

 

If only elephants could speak, they would remember the trains as nothing but

'Killer Steel Monsters'. A monster who has just NO BUSINESS to be invading

the forests of Independent India where 'Elephants' and all other animals are

protected by the laws.

As a matter of fact these voiceless animals have also been asked to be

respected and cared for by the Indian Constitution !

 

But if only things were as good practical as in the books.

 

The Greed of development has laid the killer tracks.

The Greed of land grabbers has shrunk the elephant corridors.

The Greed of priority for Humans over other species is gonna wipe them all

out.

 

I would like to end with the words of the Mahatma,

" There's enough for everybody's need and not enough for anybody's greed " ?

I can only hope some miracle happens and these gentle giants can breathe

easy.

 

 

Azam Siddiqui

 

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