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DID the British use human babies as bait during crocodile hunts?
The News Minute
16 March 2015
Human babies were used as bait to hunt crocodiles in India and other British colonies.
In some colonies, advertisements were even placed in newspapers promising the safe return of the baby.
Two Sri Lankan wildlife experts have said in a research paper published in the Journal of Threatened Taxa in January 2015, that British colonialists "rented" babies in India, Sri Lanka and also in America to hunt crocodiles.
The research paper titled"Were human babies used as bait in crocodile hunts in Colonial Sri Lanka " was authored by Anslem de Silva and Ruchira Somaweera.
The researchers quote several newspapers that published reports on how the British used babies of the local people to bait crocodiles India and Sri Lanka, but note that there was uncertainty as to how common the practice was.
On September 1, 1894, the Record Union published a report titled "How British Sportsmen Hunt Crocodiles in India"quoting a British Army officer as saying that it was a "great sport" in India to hunt crocodiles.
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