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...Sorry (graphic) Wednesday, 12:16 PM
There is an air of celebration in the village as the baby elephant, unable to move in any direction, awaits her fate. Young and old come to watch and participate in the spectacle before them.
One by one, additional ropes and steel cables are wrapped around her belly, legs, and feeteven her tail is bound. She desperately tries to thwart off her tormentors to no avail, using her trunk to push the ropes away and to defend herself from their painful blows. But there is no mercy. Her trunk and the sensitive skin between her toenails are hit with clubs and punctured with nail-studded sticks, and nails are inserted into her ear canals.
Bound and exhausted, she can no longer stand. Her legs give out, forcing her to hang by the ropes choking her neck or wrapped around her belly or to collapse against the sides of the cage. A jab to the ribs sends her momentarily upright again.
A village elder climbs on top of her and straddles her neck. He holds a stick attached to a long, curved, and pointed blade. Speaking in Thai, he delivers a message to the baby elephant, Remember, if you dont go against us, we wont hurt you. He raises the blade, spits on it, and sinks it into her head, directly between her ears. Each time he drives the blade into her head, he strains to work it back out of her tortured and bloodied flesh. Later, it is discovered that she has lost her ability to hear, most likely the result of this elders sadistic lesson.
The elder dismounts and two young men take his place. They casually sit atop her back, one smoking a cigarette. His cigarette break over, the man fervently works the pointed end of a stick into the wound in her head, placed there by the village elder. She roars in inescapable agony, lifting her head in a futile attempt to shake off this instrument of pain.
Dusk has fallen upon the village, and through the smoke of a campfire burning beside her cage, her sorrowful eyes reveal the fear and confusion of a baby elephant whose world has been turned upside down. Her mother is gone and she has been bound, beaten, and abused by those she trusted. However, her ordeal is far from over. For the next several days, she is denied food, water, and sleep. Taking shifts, the villagers beat her day and night, ensuring that her subjugation is absolute and complete.
A week later, witnesses to the beatings discover her tied to a tree outside the village. Her eyes are swollen shut, blood and pus run down her large, torn ears, and her body is covered with raw wounds. Footage of other caged baby elephants with diarrhea coating the backs of their legs is graphic evidence of the pure terror that they endure. Beatings will be used regularly for the rest of their lives to remind them whos boss. Some will eventually snap from the strain of relentless abuse, attacking and killing mahouts and tourists. Click here for a partial list of elephant incidents in Thailand.
There is an air of celebration in the village as the baby elephant, unable to move in any direction, awaits her fate. Young and old come to watch and participate in the spectacle before them.
One by one, additional ropes and steel cables are wrapped around her belly, legs, and feeteven her tail is bound. She desperately tries to thwart off her tormentors to no avail, using her trunk to push the ropes away and to defend herself from their painful blows. But there is no mercy. Her trunk and the sensitive skin between her toenails are hit with clubs and punctured with nail-studded sticks, and nails are inserted into her ear canals.Bound and exhausted, she can no longer stand. Her legs give out, forcing her to hang by the ropes choking her neck or wrapped around her belly or to collapse against the sides of the cage. A jab to the ribs sends her momentarily upright again.
A village elder climbs on top of her and straddles her neck. He holds a stick attached to a long, curved, and pointed blade. Speaking in Thai, he delivers a message to the baby elephant, Remember, if you dont go against us, we wont hurt you. He raises the blade, spits on it, and sinks it into her head, directly between her ears. Each time he drives the blade into her head, he strains to work it back out of her tortured and bloodied flesh. Later, it is discovered that she has lost her ability to hear, most likely the result of this elders sadistic lesson.
The elder dismounts and two young men take his place. They casually sit atop her back, one smoking a cigarette. His cigarette break over, the man fervently works the pointed end of a stick into the wound in her head, placed there by the village elder. She roars in inescapable agony, lifting her head in a futile attempt to shake off this instrument of pain.Dusk has fallen upon the village, and through the smoke of a campfire burning beside her cage, her sorrowful eyes reveal the fear and confusion of a baby elephant whose world has been turned upside down. Her mother is gone and she has been bound, beaten, and abused by those she trusted. However, her ordeal is far from over. For the next several days, she is denied food, water, and sleep. Taking shifts, the villagers beat her day and night, ensuring that her subjugation is absolute and complete.
A week later, witnesses to the beatings discover her tied to a tree outside the village. Her eyes are swollen shut, blood and pus run down her large, torn ears, and her body is covered with raw wounds. Footage of other caged baby elephants with diarrhea coating the backs of their legs is graphic evidence of the pure terror that they endure. Beatings will be used regularly for the rest of their lives to remind them whos boss. Some will eventually snap from the strain of relentless abuse, attacking and killing mahouts and tourists. Click here for a partial list of elephant incidents in Thailand.And the fact is.....any baby elephants taken from the wild (Africa or Asia), will be "BROKEN" in this way. The same way the Asians are broken.
Learn more about these babies, what happens to baby elephants when their parents are killed for thier tusks.
http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/Tuli
http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/Tuli
Baby elephants are being BROKEN like this right now, at this very moment! Will we stand by adn continue to let this happen?
Watch Videos (Warning! Graphic - what all baby elephants go thru)
Video Clip: Caught On Tape(Tuli Beating) Friday, 8:42 PM
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Page 12 - Thai Elephant CRUSHING RITUAL
Surin, Chaiyapoom, Buriram, etc. Baby elephants are in great demand. The average age is 2-3 years old because :
1.1 Babies are easily trained. The disadvantage is the babies die easily because they are weak and cannot tolerate tough training or punishment. They seldom suffer from stress that effects them physically and emotionally and often results in fatality.
1.2 Babies are usually attract attention. The owners feed them enough to only survive so they will not grow too fast. This results in the deformity and undernourishment.
1.3 Babies can be transported conveniently. The pick-up or a medium truck can be used. The cost is low.
1.4 Babies are not fierce and easy to control. They tend to be obedient. (because of the punishment). The wage of the keeper is low because they do not need any experienced high paid mahout.
Relating to the use of equipment on the elephants, the Magistrate said that the test was reasonable use: - there were certain incidents where the mahouts acted unlawfully". Referring to the use of the hooked ear-loops on the elephants, Magistrate Bekker stated: - Their [the mahouts] actions must be regarded as unreasonable and unlawful". Referring to the use of BROOMSTICKS and KICKING of elephantsGENITALS: - All these incidents were unlawful and unreasonable. The mahouts were charged, but disappeared. The Indonesian mahouts had handled and trained the elephants but Ghiazza / AGS contravened the APA because they took no steps to stop the ill-treatment. The Magistrate stated that they had not only foreseen but had reconciled themselves with the possibility that unnecessary pain and suffering would be inflicted on the elephants.
Our congratulations to the NSPCA for their work bringing this case.
National Geographic Reports on Phaajaan:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/
2002/10/1016_021016_phajaan.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/
2002/10/1016_021016_phajaan.html
Please everyone!! Read what they did to Conti & Petunia!!!!
Vienna - A scandal blew up at Vienna's Schoenbrunn Zoo on Wednesday after animal protectors claimed a two-year-old baby elephant had been tortured.
The Austrian Animal Protection Association (OETV) gave a press conference at which they showed a video supplied by an anonymous source.
The video showed eight men forcibly tearing the baby elephant, Mongu, away from its mother, Tonga, and tying it with a rope.
Then the elephant-keepers repeatedly pulled the baby animal down, making use of a pointed "elephant hook", with which the animal was also hit on the head.
During the process, the baby elephant could be heard making piercing screams.
OETV president Erich Goschler said he assumed the procedure was a normal one, because the men appeared to be going through a routine, and were not unduly concerned about the animal's cries.
Demanded zoo boss's resignation
The purpose was probably to break the Mongu's will so there would be no repetition of an incident in which another adolescent elephant at the zoo killed its keeper last February.
He said OETV demanded the resignation of Schoenbrunn Zoo director Helmut Pechlaner and his deputy, Harald Schwammer, and supervision of the zoo by an independent control commission.
OETV already had filed a legal complaint to the state prosecutor's office, and had alerted veterinary authorities.
Schwammer rejected the charges. Before being shown the video, he declared that hitting animals was strictly forbidden at Schoenbrunn.
But, he conceded that the use of "elephant hooks" was allowed for "correctional" purposes.
The two-year-old female elephant calf was being taught to take part in the daily care routine, said Schwammer.
In February 2005, a 39-year-old keeper was killed by a four-year-old adolescent bull elephant named Abu, who suddenly turned on him and gored him in the chest and stomach.
According to Schwammer, Abu, weighing 1.6 tons, was "in a state of separation from his mother" and had become aggressive.
"The animal was behaving like a hooligan", he said.
The baby was NOT ACTING LIKE A "HOOLIGAN!"
He was acting like a BABY WHO WANTED HIS MOMMIE~! 
..$%&*!
"After a day and night in Chiang Mai we set out early for the Elephant Conservation Center, an hour south. It has expanded greatly, in terms of human buildings, but not in space for the elephants, (just like LA Zoo plans). The first things we saw were 2 small pens, each for a mother and baby. I knew from previous visits that these poor elephants would basically live in these tiny enclosures for a year or two, with just a little relief coming from 4 pm when they are chained in the forest for the night. As I got close to the second mother I saw that she was hobbled! Shackled on her front feet, at the end of her 4-foot chain! I lost it, as the tears just came. She couldnt even reach her baby at times. This is inexcusable."
-Amanda de Normanville, All For Elephants
If, while in Thailand, you see injured or pregnant elephants working in shows or giving rides, please complaint to the camp management, AND if possible write to both the Prime Minister and the Tourist Authority of Thailand. When writing to Thailand if is important to remember that the Thai people are very polite, and to write what you DO like in Thailand, as well as to name the camp and location and what you saw that you did NOT like. They do not want to lose tourism, and they are listening to us!
The Prime Minister, Government House, Thanon Nakhon Pathom, Bangkok 10300, Thailand
Director of Tourist Authority of Thailand, Northern
Looking back at this thread, it reminded me of Sadie for some reason - here is her sad 
, pathetic story:
, pathetic story:
SadieSadie was a young, timid elephant. Her trainers believed it was essential that elephants used in circuses learn fear of punishment and discomfort as basic discipline. They were impatient and she was confused by the strange, puzzling tricks that were unnatural to any elephant.
One day, Sadie attempted to run out of the ring. Her trainers brought her back and began to punish her for being "stupid." Overwhelmed with a sense of frustration, helplessness, and hopelessness, Sadie laid down and began to cry. Tears streamed down her face as her huge body heaved with every desperate sob. Her spirit broken, Sadie would never regain the freedom and dignity the circus had so cruelly taken from her.
http://www.circuses.com/unwilling.asp <- more stories
****What Sadie's Trainers later said- "quote":
"With only two weeks to get ready for opening night at the circus, we had to work fast to get the elephants ready to perform.
Sadie, the youngest, was very timid and frightened. One day we had her in the ring for training. She could not do her tricks she didn't understand and ran out of the ring, afraid of punishment. we caught her, brought her back, forced her to the ground and began to punish her for being so stupid.
Suddenly, we stopped hitting her and looked at each other. Sadie was crying like a human being. She lay there on her side, tears streaming down her face and sobs racking her body. "
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