Every tourist who has ever been in Thailand would not have missed the opportunity to ride an elephant, take a selfie on his back, or admire their performances at the circus show. but almost none of them even suspect how the Thais train and subordinate to people of these amazing and powerful animals to work in tourism (as well as in the logging area). The answer lies in an incredibly sad and discouraging story whose original translated by us from several English-language primary sources.
Attention! This article can lead especially impressionable people in shock!
The tribal approach of the time, modern politics and ignorance tourist realities have played a key role in what we see today in many countries of the world. Today, elephants have become a symbol tourism, especially in the countries of Southeast Asia.
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The plight of the elephants
For years, for the sake of income from tourism, the owners of elephants subjected their animals to shameful acts of street begging, circus performance, forced breeding, riding, not to mention industrial logging.
If you believe that elephants enjoy fame and life in within the circus, exhausting work in the jungle for felling, and also the fact that they have a choice whether to take people on a trip, then you deeply mistaken. What if we tell you that the elephant allows do people ride it just for fear? Fear of repeating those torture which he had to endure before.
The Fajana Ceremony (The Phajaan) – the destruction of the spirit
Although Indian elephants, unlike African, excellent are trained in riding and performing other tasks, yet this The procedure requires a ton of effort. In Thailand, the process of submission called the Phajaan Ceremony ceremony, meaning “destruction of the spirit” of the animal.
Phajaan literally translated from Thai means to crush.
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The Fajand ceremony goes deep in Thai history. In those times the expulsion of the wild spirit of the elephant and his submission engaged tribal shaman. And since a more gentle way no one has yet invented training (maybe elephants are different and tamed), this ceremony has lived to this day.
Elephant never forgets offense
Every year thousands of elephants fall into the training camps subjected to torture and ill-treatment. After passing ceremonies do not survive all, and those who suffered it for life there are physical and mental memories of a dark past. Scars on the skin of an animal, once caused by piercing weapons, can easy to detect even for inexperienced people.
Splayed hips and damaged spines in elephants found in Thailand quite often. Such injuries are usually caused by forced breeding, poorly fitting saddles and excessive driving. The list of injuries can be endless.
Method of dealing with cruel torture
Based on the above, we can conclude that a large a number of elephants are subjected to severe torture for the most part precisely because of tourism. Of course this is impossible, but what if all tourists simultaneously refused to ride a horse, watch shows and other entertainment with elephants, the Fajana ceremony just lost would be relevant. There would be a much smaller number of camps. elephants and only for industrial training, and this the moment should already be regulated by state policy.
