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100,000 elephants were murdered by poachers in 3 years for ivory. They are also murdered by 

angry farmers, by those wanting to eat flesh etc.

ELEPHANT GENOCIDE 

100,000 elephants were murdered in 3 years 

by poachers for ivory for China, Japan, Vietnam. 

Topsy the elephant was electrocuted by Thomas Edison, Jan 4, 1903, 

to demonstrate the power of his electrocution. 

Elephants are sometimes murdered for their flesh 

Elephants are sometimes murdered by angry farmers. 

Elephants sometimes die in horrible zoos. Kadir kept in an underground concrete jail in Prague, drowned when the Danube flooded. 

Elephants are sometimes abused in relocation. 

An elephant was hanged. 

Elephants are bombed in wars but they are no longer 

drafted for war by Hannibal 

Footnote: 

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140818-elephants-africa-poaching-cites-census/ 

Kadir in 2002\ kept in an underground cement jail, at a Prague Zoo drowned when the Danube flooded. 

http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ct24/sites/default/files/styles/scale_1180/public/images/1224622-385816.jpg?itok=CFZFVWL3 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2193483.stm 

(50,000 research animals drowned at the Univ of Texas in a flood) 

Elephant was hanging for killing a perhaps abusive man 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2559840/The-town-hanged-elephant-A-chilling-photo-macabre-story-murder-revenge.html 

Edison electrocuted an elephant 

https://www.wired.com/2008/01/dayintech-0104/ 

Topsy the elephant intentionally electrocuted 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoKi4coyFw0 

100,000 elephants in 3 years have been murdered by poachers for ivory (for the Asian markets of China, Japan, Vietnam etc, by human beings for their flesh (meat), by farmers upset that 

elephants ate their crops. 

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/photogalleries/elephants-massacre/photo2.html 

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140818-elephants-africa-poaching-cites-census/ 

Unnecessary abuse 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oafo8rJfTzY 

Kadir in 2002\ kept in an underground cement jail, at a Prague Zoo drowned when the Danube flooded. 

http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/ct24/sites/default/files/styles/scale_1180/public/images/1224622-385816.jpg?itok=CFZFVWL3 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2193483.stm 

(50,000 research animals drowned at the Univ of Texas in a flood) 

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/97fVLyB3iFY/hqdefault.jpg 

face and trunk removed by murdering poachers 

Ringling Brothers no longer abuses elephants but they are abused in circuses elsewhere 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDMyEHY6ELs 

https://assets3.thrillist.com/v1/image/2533292/size/tmg-article_tall;jpeg_quality=20.jpg

Other captive animal drownings occur frequently... e.g. 50,000 research animals at the Univ of Texas during flooding

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...

Edison electrocuted Topsy Jan 4 1903 to demonstrate electrocution's power

Ringling no longer abuses elephants but they are abused in European circuses