It does appear to me that during the
past Regime’s 10 years of Rule, people thought that owning an elephant was a
status symbol higher than that of having a Range Rover or S class Benz! In that
respect with people like Sajin Vaas being a Presidential favorite was able to
dispense favors, ostensibly with Presidential Authority, and people like the
misnamed Ali Roshan (more like hora Roshan) was able to go into National Parks
and capture innocent babies, sometimes even killing their mothers in the
process, under the noses of the National Park Wardens, who were unable to
resist this daylight robbery.
So this pastime resulted in well known
Priests acquiring babies under false papers, whether they knew they were false
or not, they are now hiding under the I did not know they were stolen moniker
and this whole putrid tale went on.
With the advent of the new Government,
and with laws still in the stature books that strictly forbid the capture and
taming of Wild Elephants under flora and fauna ordinances, teams of
investigators have spent months firstly going through the forged books of
Elephants in captivity, and have begun scouting the Island in search of
Elephants, checking if the ownership is legitimate, and then if not, getting an
arrest warrant issued via a magistrate capture and take the Elephant and
prosecute or arrest the purported owner.
Due to the massive scale of this theft,
and possibly 75 young elephants involved in this, we are talking of taking 75
rich people into custody! It is not a joke. Some of these people are powerful
of the land. It was alleged that Gota had a couple with him, and now their
whereabouts is questionable, but he is still free from prosecution.
What I am saying is that the law must be
applied fairly and equally to all no matter who you are, and by just making an example
of the Ven. Dhammaloka, you get a famous name, but where are the other 50 big whigs.
If I was the Ven. Thero I would be pissed that I have been singled out and I could
take out a FR case of unfair treatment on the grounds that I was specifically picked
out, when there were more influential people who could be arrested.
As a mere amateur observer of the proceedings,
I just don’t see that there has been fair treatment on this issue, free of bias,
and so wish that the authorities concerned take this allegation to hand and do that
which is necessary to bring everyone involved in this scam to book.
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