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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Human safaris exploit Jarawas with cops’ aid

Human safaris exploit Jarawas with cops’ aid

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published Published on Jan 11, 2012   modified Modified on Jan 11, 2012
-The Times of India
 
Shocking video has emerged of naked Jarawa tribals in the Andaman islands being made to dance before tourists for food and money during the course of 'human safaris' organized by operators in connivance with local authorities. 

According to a report in the UK-based 'Observer' newspaper, which also released the footage taken by its reporter, the safaris brazenly flout laws that prohibit close contact with the tribals and photographing them. 

There are just 403 surviving members of the Jarawa who live in reserve forests on south Andaman. The hunting-gathering tribals started making contact with the outside world only in the late 1990s. Experts say they are vulnerable to disease and sexual exploitation by outsiders. 

The video shows a policeman, posted to protect the tribals, urging Jarawa women to dance after telling them he would give them food. The report describes tourists throwing bananas and biscuits to the tribals at the roadside, "as they would to animals in a safari park". It's alleged that the local police have taught them to beg and take away the money collected by the tribals in return for tobacco, which they never previously used, and food. 

The tribe is believed to be descendants of some of the first humans to move out of Africa. The men hunt pigs and turtles with bows and arrows and the women gather fruit and honey. The dead are left under a tree and later the bones used as good luck charms. The tribals started venturing out of the forest in 1998.


The Times of India, 11 January, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Human-safaris-exploit-Jarawas-with-cops-aid/articleshow/11443708.cms


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