11/6/2022 0 Comments Battlezone 2 recycler variants![]() ![]() They then guard their dear ones from the wrath of elephants with drums and fire till the break of dawn. Tentuli village of Orissa's Keonjhar district shifts to the safety of tree houses. In many parts of the country, the harvest of the winter crop is not the time to celebrate but to prepare for a long battle. West Bengal paid Rs 71.63 lakh for crop damage and human casualties in 1999-2000. It has compensated farmers to the tune of Rs 2.42 crore between 19. Karnataka is one of the few states to maintain records of crop damage. The next year saw three cases of poisoning. This wasn't the first case of its kind to be 'recorded' certainly not the last. On the body of one elephant were painted the words: Thaan chor, Laden (which translates to 'paddy thief, Osama bin Laden'). There was no reason to suspect poachers - the tusks weren't removed. In 2001, 17 elephants were poisoned to death in Sonitpur district of Assam within a span of 70 days. What drives them out of the forests? Why do they prefer standing crops?įurther east, in the adjoining state of Assam, the situation is worse. It is quite another task for a villager to explain why the 300-500 elephants of northern wb walk around the entire region, raiding fields and eating the crop at will. It is easy to offer the 'one mad elephant' logic. For some time, people will justify it as an aberration." But this single animal mocked at all social constructs. Was this an aberration? At a ripe old age of 80, Debashish Chaudhri, resident of a village on the periphery of the Mahananda sanctuary, provides a perspective: "Crop raids, broken houses and crashed walls have been routine. A handful of theories still do the rounds about why the elephant went berserk. This is one example of the mythology of elephants in India. People had little time to sigh in relief the harvest season was not over yet. Some reports say just once with the magnum, between his eyes and some say repeatedly, till it slumped to the ground in a heap. It was then tracked down inside the forest, identified (or guessed to be the same one) and shot. On the morning of June 25, the rogue was to kill its last victim in Bamanpokhri forest village. He was about to become a new age Jim Corbett. A retired army officer, A Chauhan, was asked to accompany the search party with his much-talked-of magnum gun. The divisional forest officer, Raju Das, took the decision to shoot it down without waiting for the mandatory written permission from the chief wildlife warden of West Bengal. The forest department intensified the search for the killer elephant. The killings were classified as 'sensational', the elephant 'murderous', and the region as 'terror-struck'. Within hours the entire region was awake to the incident. Calls from Kolkata began to pour into administrative offices of Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri. People approached local politicians, who called up 'their people' in Kolkata. Authorities managed more angry complainants than they could handle. Before daybreak, it returned to Indian territory and killed two people in Chegabusti.Īs dawn broke, the news spread. ![]() It killed three people in Bahundangi village of Jhapa. The 'killer' crossed the international border midnight of June 24. That night, there were no other incidents on the Indian side. They prepared to stay on vigil through the night, keeping their torches, crackers and drums handy. BATTLEZONE 2 RECYCLER VARIANTS PATCHSince 1997, 28 people had been killed in the small fragmented patch of forest called the Kurseong division, and people are used to the periodic trauma.īut the 2002 incident shook them. The deaths were usually at the hands (or feet!) of solitary bulls, not elephants that moved in a herd. ![]() This was a violation of protocol - elephants, it was well known and believed throughout the country, raided villages only at night. ![]() An elephant had killed seven people in Tukrabusti and Marapurbusti villages in Panighatta range, two predominantly Santhal villages adjoining tea gardens. By midday the forest department radios were crackling, with anxious rangers and beat officers leaving frantic and confused messages. The herd was on its seasonal trampling and crop-raiding mission on June 23, 2002. ![]()
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