AT Vadanappalli in Kerala’s Thrissur district on Sunday 8 Apr 07, a furious elephant went on the rampage while carrying the body of the mahout it killed during the Chettuva Chandanakkudam festival. The elephant attacked another elephant taking part in the parade and later killed its mahout, TDM Unni and injured 24 persons during the show. It was a function at the government UP school in Chettuva near Thrissur when suddenly, one of the elephants, turned violent. He went after those sitting on him, killing the mahout.
Kerala may boast of its love for captive elephants but recent incidents have shown just how cruel and inhuman God's Own Country has sometimes been to these animals. Forest officials say the real villain is the middleman who hires elephants from owners during the temple festival season. Instead of limiting the number of outings for the elephant, he tries to take the animal to as many festivals as possible, to increase earnings.
The elephant suffers in terms of food, water and rest and that makes them irritable and violent. Animal lovers want the abuse of elephants to stop.The mahouts are poorly paid and the working conditions leave much to be desired. On the job, they are often mistrustful of each other, the principal mahout rarely letting his assistant become a complete master of his elephant or learn all the tricks of the trade for fear of losing his job. The real owner often would know only the principal mahout and not the other keepers of his elephant, especially when elephants are leased out for the festival season. In most cases, the mahouts fail to exhibit the compassion and caring that was the hallmark of their predecessors. Eventually, elephants would fall into the hands of wayward keepers, who, almost always high on alcohol and ganja, brutalise or maim the animals, lead them into accidents or abandon them on highways or at city centres. Left to bear the brunt of all such changes are the poor elephants themselves, increasingly in demand but facing declining standards of care. According to the Elephant Lovers' Association, between January 2006 and March 2007, 147 elephants died in Kerala, the majority of the deaths reportedly occurring as a result of ill-treatment, if not torture. Heart-rending accounts of elephants being tortured have been reported from the State, many of these happening soon after a new keeper took charge or after elephants changed hands. According to eyewitness accounts, frequent `initiation ceremonies' (known as kettiazhikkal) to make the beast obey the new keeper often extends for hours on end.
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Saturday, January 3, 2009
Elephant attack in a Muslim Festival-Chettuva
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"Chettuva Chandanakkudam festival".
SO....You trying sputter rancor.
You changed it as a Muslim festival.
you should realize that any Muslims from Kerala never ever used elephants for any festival
Yes they do! The truth hurts! Muslims do hire elephants for their festivals in Kerala and the Christians and the Buddhist festivals use elephants in Kerala.
You must have a financial interest in this sadistic commercialized form of worship. It is even in Keralas handbook how to punish how to gain control is the term used in the handbook, elephant ketti-azhikkel which is the annual beating the sadistic mahout team inflict on the elephant bull at end of their natural musth cycle. why? they think the elephant might have forgotten his master during this musth which testosterone sours 60 percent. The elephants get chained short n tight for musth time about 3 months in cooler weather this happens to them annually. These beatings have killed many bull elephant at Kerala. But to the cruel money hungry owners they just get death certificate doctored after corrupt sadistic vets write cause of death as natural death. These vets reciece gifts too for passing these unfit elephant as fit to parade because money is the god at Kerala and unfit elephant can't earn. If they brutal mahouts n owners kill they victim elephant they collect the insurance for the death of the elephant that they have made law to take out. These beatings go on for days 24/7 many help beat the elephant giving the other torturers rest time. For the elephant it goes on 24/7. No rest.
Nanachattum which is the vicious beating torture of chained elephant when new mahout team takes over a lease of the poor elephant.
All elephants that end in Kerala are doomed to die beaten and starved and vet treatment rarely ever sourced. THESE CRUEL CRIMINALS STARVE THEM TO WEAKEN THEM. THIS YEAR 25 HAVE DIED FROM THESE TORTURES. THE POLITICIANS SOME OWN ELEPHANT AND FORMED A GROUP CALLED KERALA ELEPHANT OWNERS FEDERATION. ELEPHANT MAFIOSA. I have witnessed. I speak for the hundreds of elephants that suffered.
This weak Kalisasan elephant has been blinded and his front leg in a very bad way after his owner n mahout attacked him beating him viciously. someone filmed Srihari elephant with festering spear stab wounds puss fill wounds all over his lower front legs. Easily one hundred stab wounds and we saw the elephant holding his pink inflamed foot up after another beating on these horrifically wounded infected legs as blood was pooling from the deep cuts he he just had inflicted again on him. The blood literally was sqirting running out like a tap had been turned on. He died abandoned that night. No doubt he died from all the torture ending with blood loss as I said it was like a tap turned on.The fiends must have cut an arterie. The saddists fled and no doubt they be trying for the insurance they by law have to take out under a short term arrangement the elephant owners federation have arranged for themselves and an insurance company. Probably owned by elephant owner too.
No more is their putrid world of torture that they blend disguising these parades of money making with the local religion and the Christian religion and the Moslem religion. similar with the Buddhist religion in Sri Lanka the chain n beat their elephants too.
Every death I have bemeen following for years the details and they are horrific.
These people only worship money they get from leasing these elephants its big business. during off season the elephants are either abandoned or put to work in the many lumber yards that many elephant owners own. The knowledge I have from closely following this abomination iI could pen a huge book of all the sadism that has become the norm.The unnatural abnormal has become the norm. You may dislike the truth for some reason. Yes its true
We are now well into year 2019. Last year we saw 36 Elephants die tragicc emaciated deaths. They died all from torture that was metered out on them thru many beatings their carers inflct on them. The writer covered the dreadful lives they have. They suffer shock during the most severest of beatings that the team of mahouts and friends, accomplices and sometimes temple and devaswom staff participate in. Even the owner/s often join in and nearly always the lease owner takes part in the Nanuchattum beating of a new elephant and the Ketti Azhikkal beating that they inflic on the bull elephant to bring him out of musth. The unchaining. . For around three to four months sometimes more sometimes less the elephant is tightly chained on all four legs and the chains are shortened so he cannot move and is often hobbled. Musth in the wild signal the time to roam and search for a mate.The rise in testosterone makes them do this perhaps natures way of dealing with such a powerful animal and ensuring reproduction of these amazing animals during this time any encounters with another bull heis able to prove his power and show off to any potential females. The call to roam is strong and he can detect a female in estrous from miles away. However the captive bull suffers the frustration of the restricting tight chains which he become increasingly angry and often his carers stay away and he is left for long periods of isolation alone. His temple puff up and are uncomprtable and hurt . The temporin fluid seeps from his temple down either side of his and he has a constant flow of strong urine that continually drizzles and gushes. During this time he is also starved and. denied water by the carers. They believe this will weaken him. They are wrong. Some elephants come through this time lookiing like abag of bones and the beating often kills him
suddenly from shock and heart attack other deaths linger for days or weeks eventually killing them as a result of internal or external injuries or both that he sustained via these individuals and who are often customarily drunk. These beatings we have seen broken limbs as well which means severe and extreme force was used often with heavy iron weapons and tools of torture. Elephants bones are solid so that is force very cruel force.
So far this mid March 2019 four elephants have died. One was eighty six year old female who lived her entire life chained and was seen parading last year. There are no retirements nor sanctuaries for aged ailing elephants. I can imagine the owners never plan or expect them to live long after they stop working the festivals bringing in the money and if they get sick or banned or unpopular because of running amok. They then become a liability .however, they cover themselves with insurancr and recieve a hefty payout when he dies...
It is all tragically unfair to these suffering elephants but their is more. There is real corruption and real intentional murder of these elephants. I will share this with you next.
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