Killings of Elephant by Electrification

<span style="font-size: medium;">The Rural Electrification Board spent millions of dollars to take electricity lines to some of the hilly and forested villages of Greater Chittagong and Sherpur districts in recent years. It was a big achievement. As a result, for the first time the electricity has tipped the scale in our farmers's centuries-long fight against wild elephant herds. And our farmers welcomed it by laying live electricity wire all around their farmland and their homesteads. And the hapless pachyderms have just lost the war for good. The farmers use such a thin wire that our big friends simply can't detect the death traps. And the moment the leader of the pack touches it, it gets a terrible body-shake, it jumps and makes a loud cry and the next moment the poor animal collapses on its knee and is dead. And our farmers may have exclaimed a hurrah: Chodna jaiba Koi. Kola khaite chaisili na! Dekhli government amgore ki jinish dise!! In the past seven days, four wild Asian elephants, the last of the 80 odd elephants still alive in the country, were murdered by electrocution by our farmers. In all more than 10 elephants were killed by electricity trap in recent years. At this rate, the last of our big friends will be wiped out from our forest by 2026, when we are going to celebrate our graduation into a lower middle income country.</span>