Elephant tusks - seized

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Malaysia's customs officials display newly-seized elephant tusks in Port Klang outside Kuala Lumpur September 5, 2011. Two containers containing 695 elephant tusks worth 3 million ringgit (US $1 million) were seized by Malaysia's customs department on Friday, as reported by Malaysia's daily The Star quoting the customs assistant director-general. REUTERS

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Labby Tuesday, 06 September 2011 09:30 AM

From where had it arrived? Judging by the size of the tusks they may have gone from India or maybe Thailand. We don't have so many.

Adam Tuesday, 06 September 2011 09:39 AM

650 Elephants killed. Just for tusks.

Mifaz Tuesday, 06 September 2011 02:59 PM

Humane humans

Ranjith. BG Tuesday, 06 September 2011 03:00 PM

sURE FROM AFRICAN COUNTRIES.

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