Human stupidity and ignorance are rampant so it’s nice to see goodness and intelligence sometimes conquer.
Raju the Elephant who was chained for 50 years cried tears of joy after being freed in India. Raju had water streaming down his face as a daring team of rescuers swooped in on Wednesday night to release him from his confinement in India. Vets and wildlife experts from the British-based Wildlife SOS-UK were joined by 20 Forestry Commission officers and two cops in the dangerous nighttime operation.
The squad raided the farm in India’s Uttar Pradesh region, where Raju — who’d been regularly beaten and abused by his owners, who used him to beg for money — was being kept.
And they claim that, as they liberated him from his manacles, he openly wept because he realized that his half-century ordeal was coming to an end.
“Raju was in chains 24 hours a day, an act of intolerable cruelty. The team were astounded to see tears roll down his face during the rescue,” Wildlife SOS-UK’s Pooja Binepal said.
“It was incredibly emotional. We knew in our hearts he realized he was being freed,” Binepal added.
See the video of the rescue and happy, although very thin, elephant.
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