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ANIMALS - HIDDEN VICTIMS OF WAR

This month, the Imperial War Museum in London launches The Animals' War - an exhibition commemorating the animals who have died in worldwide conflicts. To coincide with this, Animal Aid has produced a brand new booklet - Animals: The Hidden Victims of War. Where others celebrate the bravery of animals, we remember the reality: that animals are victims, not heroes of war.

From Hannibal's historic campaign using elephants in Roman battles to 'Roborats' - rats with electrodes wired into their brains by scientists keen to harness their acute sense of smell - animals have suffered throughout history in human conflicts.

Valued for their outstanding abilities and forced into wars not of their making, animals have often been treated as little more than disposable tools, kept alive only for as long as they are useful, and then killed or abandoned to fend for themselves.

In Animals: The Hidden Victims of War, we remember the animals used as messengers, in detection, scouting and rescue, as beasts of burden and on the frontline. We remember the animals taken from the wild and used as mascots, for companionship in the trenches and all those who continue to be subjected to warfare experiments in laboratories.

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