Saturday, May 12, 2007

Away with the elephants!

Sri Lanka
May 11, 2007

The living elephant is as much a part of the culture of Sri Lanka as the Temple of the tooth or Adam’s Peak. They are used to grace big religious pageants and finally given the ultimate honor of carrying the most revered and venerated relic that this country has, the Tooth relic of the Enlightened One. Today in the wild where all these elephants initially come from, and where they have lived from before the time of the ancient kings of Sri Lanka, they have been harassed chased and shot. This appalling indictment is not made as a result of a forgotten memory from an age gone by when the white man ruled this land and shot elephants indiscriminately, but this is today’s reality in the name of wild life protection.

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