A heart breaking video of an elephant that is waiting to be paraded in the Esala Perahera, Sri Lanka's most revered cultural event. Most don't know that elephants are starved before the perahera pageant so that they don't defecate as they are made to walk the parade (shackled under the costumes, poked with the "henduwa"/Ankus/bull hook). So wake up, friends. THIS is how Sri Lanka is taking care of an animal that is extinct. Our biggest opponents are those who are trying to protect "culture and r