Padma
Hazarika is a Bharatiya Janata Party politician from Assam. He was elected in
Assam Legislative Assembly election in 1996, 2006, 2011 and 2016 from Sootea
constituency. Formerly, he was with Asom
Gana Parishad.
Bin Laden captured
.. .. .. Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was a Saudi Arabian-born
Stateless Muslim jihadist who founded the pan-Islamic militant organization
al-Qaeda, through which he planned and coordinated terror attacks around the
world. Bin Laden's father was a Saudi millionaire and the founder of the
construction company, Saudi Binladin Group. He was banished from Saudi Arabia in 1992, and
shifted his base to Sudan, until U.S. pressure forced him to leave Sudan in
1996. Bin Laden masterminded Sept 11
attacks that resulted in deaths of more than 3000 and heightened the war on
terror.
Though Pakistan
kept denying sheltering the dreaded terrorist, Osama was killed in
Pakistan on May 2, 2011, by United States Navy SEALs, in an operation code-named Operation Neptune Spear. The raid on bin Laden's compound in
Abbottabad, Pakistan was launched from Afghanistan. U.S. military officials
said that after the raid U.S. forces took the body of bin Laden to Afghanistan
for identification, then buried it at sea within 24 hours of his death in accordance
with Islamic tradition. In the aftermath
of the killing, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani formed a
commission under Senior Justice Javed Iqbal to investigate the circumstances
surrounding the attack. The resulting Abbottabad Commission Report, revealed
Pakistani state military and intelligence authorities' "collective
failure" ! that enabled bin Laden
to hide in Pakistan for nine years.
Now this post is
not on the terrorist but on an elephant named Bin Laden, so named after its
killing people. 'Laden' the rampaging
elephant was caught after a massive operation in India – the elephant that went
berserk had stampeded through villages
in Goalpara district. In a 24 hour
period, it reportedly killed 5 people including 3 women and terrified locals
named it after Al-Qaeda terror leader
Osama bin Laden. After the
killings, a massive operation to hunt down the pachyderm
was launched.
Wildlife officers
tracked the pachyderm - dubbed 'Laden' by the locals it menaced in northeastern
Assam state - through a forest for several days using drones and domesticated
elephants. The rogue animal killed five people, including three women, during a
24-hour rampage through Goalpara district October. Officials said they would take the elephant's
welfare into account as well as the safety of people living nearby in deciding
where it would be relocated. In the
final leg of operations the Forest officials with trained elephants fired tranquiliser
darts and later captured it alive. It was
then planned on shifting the giant elephant
to a forest where there is no human habitation nearby.
Wildlife officials
and rangers managed to track the beast through the Rongjuli forest before
finally capturing it. Assam forest
minister Parimal Shuklabaidya said an eight-person committee including wildlife
experts would decide what to do. Elephants
frequently migrate into Goalpara, resulting in high numbers of fatal encounters
with humans amid rampant deforestation. Some elephants there have been poisoned
or shot by locals, while others have died on electric fences or on railways
cutting through migration routes.
After being
tranquilised, earlier, it was decided that the jumbo will be freed in the
Lumding area, but the decision was withdrawn after the locals protested against
it. Recent reports now suggest that the elephant has been renamed ‘Krishna’,
will work for the forest department and will be trained by other tamed
elephants.
Assam chief
minister Sarbananda Sonowal congratulated MLA Padma Hazarika for capturing the
wild elephant that was creating havoc in Goalpara district. The Sootea MLA led
the operation to capture the wild tusker with the help of forest officials and
his aides.
Interesting !
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
15th
Nov. 2019.
Hello I enjoy your elephant blogs.I researched why they called him Ladan.The word Ladan means'crop raider'in Assam. The people spray this word across the body of a crop raider. Also, although he was said to have killed people, no bodies were recorded by authorities. The news media said he killed 5 people and 15 and he killed 50 people. Ladan had been chased by vehicle to tire him. His world had come crashing down. Another bull elephant challenged him and his priority was to protect his herd from the intruder. However, this was not to be. A speeding vehicle chased him. He never saw his herd again. He was darted. He collapsed. The men stood on him raising their fists in victory. He had sustained a very deep gash on his hind leg. Some kind elephant welfare people treated his wounds Soon after he was roped and dragged by Kumki elephant to where thousands were watching. He passed out. He was eventually dragged and lifted onto a truck. The straps dug deep into his belly and could internally damage him. They spashed water on his body to cool him. I noticed his ears were not flapping during this time. He would have been over heating. Plus he had been passed out in the sun. Being in musth and having to contend with a challenger who wanted to steal his herd of females. So his attention would have been on protecting what was his and he very likely had not had a drink for some time. Dehydration would have been setting in and his blood would have been thickening. He was barely conscious and unable to move any part of his body. Only his eyes were open just a little. His thirst would have gone unnoticed. I doubt he would have been able to drink at that stage anyway because he was so heavily sedated. It get very sad now. He was taken to the forest dept camp. Where he was unloaded. We don't know how they removed him from the truck. The elephants usually are put into a kraal. Sadly they often starve and deny water to the wild captured ones I strongly suspect the water was over looked in the commotion. I can't remember if it was the next day or the day after that they loaded him again and that he had had a massive heart attack in the process... Lack of water is very often coupled with heart attacks with captive. Perhaps they gave him more sedative and his heart stopped. He was not watched by animal welfare workers. I believe he may have died the first night. The news media turned people into a frenzy and panic. It was also a live show with thousands of people coming to watch. This should be not allowed. I believe the attention went to their heads.The capture was cruel. The people were very incompetent. Sadly that area is the capital of the black market. He was a makna, which is a tuskless bull elephant. So he was not valued however, his bones and skin would have fetched a pretty penny. That sounds dreadful but it is the truth. I feel very sad when I think of him. And I saw a video again recently and I found myself with tears. How they treated him was so very cruel. He was a beautiful elephant caught up in this area where so many lose there lives. I just wanted you to know what I know about him. It was a very big tragedy indeed.
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