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[[Image:Crushed_by_elephant.png|150px|[[An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon]] by Robert Knox (1681)]]<br />
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For thousands of years, '''[[crushing by elephant]]''' was a common method of execution for those [[capital punishment|condemned to death]], mainly throughout [[south Asia|south]] and [[southeast Asia]], and particularly in [[India]]. [[Elephant]]s employed in this manner were used to crush, dismember, or torture captives in public [[Execution (legal)|execution]]s. The use of elephants to execute captives often attracted the horrified interest of European travellers, and was recorded in numerous contemporary journals and accounts of life in Asia. The practice was eventually suppressed by the European empires that colonised the region in the 18th and 19th centuries. ('''[[Crushing by elephant|more...]]''')</div>WikiDwarf