Sadly, she’s not the first elephant to have to have had this done. 
There’s been a logging ban in Thailand for about 20 years now, and while some illegal logging does still occur, especially in the more remote areas of the North, many mahouts (elephant handlers) take their elephants into Burma to work there, and the border regions are rife with decades-old conflicts.
Personally, I’m impressed that the writer made it all the way through that story without an ROUS joke.
I don’t believe they exist.
Two more from my own backyard:
Thai Monkeys Teach Their Young How to Floss. Japanese researchers say this is proof that primates teach their offspring how to use tools. I suspect they’ll give them power saws next and see what they do with those.
A “Dracula Fish” with Fangs has been discovered in a small stream in northern Burma. So be careful where you’re wading when you’re smuggling those drugs.
Jeez, every day you roll out of bed must be a real adventure. 
You have no idea. 
“The gift of Bangkok is that it never bores.” – Local writer William Warren
Well, this almost qualifies. But close enough: A Philadelphia pet store expecting a shipment of exotic fish got a man’s corpse instead. Story here.
One would think.
Too-tiny turtles from Thailand seized at Denver Airport. They were being imported illegally by a pet shop there.
Komodo Dragons Maul Man to Death. Well, at least it’s a novel way to go out.
On the opposite side of the cuteness scale
That one’s not opening. 
Maybe the Komodo dragons got them, too.
One would think that something with teeth like that would bite a guy to death rather than “maul him”.
Did Theresia Tawa call anybody, maybe mention to someone that komodo dragons were hanging around waiting to eat his neighbor?
That will teach Muhamad Anwar to refuse to loan his snowblower.
They leaned on her to keep quiet.
So are Komodo Dragons a gang or a species? Or both?
That would be a good gang name, wouldn’t it? And they could even pattern their gang killings accordingly.
So this Geico Gecko thing is a racket. You buy their insurance so your business doesn’t have a bomb accident.
I thought that described all insurance companies. Or maybe I’ve just been in the Third World too long.
I thought it was just certain Italian and Reptilian insurance companies.