Word: habyalimana
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Dates: during 1975-1975
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...cultivated new forest acreage, less and less land was left for the local herds of elephants. Result: hungry pachyderms have been raiding the peasants' shambas, often devastating the small subsistence plots in the process -and further reducing the food supply. Rwanda's President, General Juvénal Habyalimana, therefore ordered that the elephant herds be "culled." To date, some 106 of Rwanda's estimated 140 elephants have been gunned down by riflemen. Another 26 specimens were shot with tranquilizer darts and taken by helicopter and truck to safety in Rwanda's Kagera National Park. The remaining...
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