Sちゃんさん、はじめまして。

またこんなことやったのか？！と思ったんですが、状況と証言者の
お名前が一致するので、もしかしたら去年の記事の復活かもです。

戦争のごたごたで多くの動物が略奪されたり、食料になったり、
動物園に残ったライオンやトラは食べ物がなくやせ衰え、気が立って
いたそうです。

ゾウの花子を思い出して、悲しくなりました。

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1419194,00.html

US soldier kills rare tiger
20/09/2003 18:26 - (SA)

Bagdad - An American soldier shot and killed a rare Bengal tiger in Baghdad zoo during an apparently drunken party, the head of the zoo said on Saturday.

"The soldiers arrived in the evening with food and beer, accompanied by a group of Iraqi police officers," Adel Salman Musa said of the incident on Thursday night.

"One of the soldiers, who the Iraqi police said had drunk a lot, went into the cage against the advice of his colleagues and tried to feed the animal, who severely hurt his arm," he explained to AFP.

The tiger tore off one of the soldier's fingers and mauled his arm. One of the other soldiers immediately fired at the animal and killed it, he said.

"The soldiers don't have the right to behave like that. That was the most precious and valuable animal in the whole zoo. It was 14 years old and had been born here," Salman Musa said.

The Bengal tiger is an endangered species which is protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the World Conservation Union (IUCN).

There are only 3 000-4 500 of these creatures left in the wild.

Salman Musa said US soldiers often held parties in the zoo in the evenings. "We have no way of stopping them," he said.

US Sergeant Mark Ingham confirmed to AFP that an American soldier had killed the tiger on Thursday and said the incident was being investigated.

Baghdad zoo reopened to the public in July.

It houses 44 animals other than the prized tiger, most of which came from the palaces of deposed leader Saddam Hussein and his late son Uday, who was a lover of big cats.

A number of its animals were stolen in the confusion that followed the US-lead war. Most were killed for food or were stuffed and sold. - Sapa-AFP

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