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The closure of the road would give choice back to the Jarawa as to how and when they wish to engage – or not – with the outside world.
The 'human safari' is an outrage to tribal feelings | Observer editorial 2012
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His reports on the Bonda tribe in the hilly regions of the state of Orissa in India and the Jarawa in the Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal, have triggered a huge response from readers of the Observer.
The 'human safari' is an outrage to tribal feelings | Observer editorial 2012
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Professor Anvita Abbi, a linguist, said the Jarawa were in danger of going the same way as the Great Andamanese tribe, who once numbered 5,000 but are now down to 56 people.
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In 2002, the supreme court of India, for example, ordered that the Andaman trunk road that runs through the Jarawa tribal reserve should be closed.
The 'human safari' is an outrage to tribal feelings | Observer editorial 2012
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The road cuts through Jarawa territory making it easier for tourists to contact the tribe.
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Police said that taking a foreigner into the Jarawa reserve amounted to "intentionally insulting with the intent to humiliate a vulnerable primitive tribe of these islands".
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On Thursday two men – Rajesh Kumar Vyas and Sarjeet Singh Guddu – appeared in court in Port Blair charged with organising a trip into the Jarawa reserve which was highlighted in the Observer investigation.
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Yet in the Andaman Islands – where the Observer first exposed the scandal of human safaris to see the protected Jarawa tribe, and women being forced to dance in return for food – tourists continue to pour through the jungle, despite promises by the Indian government to crack down on tours.
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Economics lay at the heart of the enmity between the two groups: as merchants and herders, the Muslim Jarawa were much wealthier than the Christian Tarok and Goemai.
God’s Country 2008
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Between the iron goalposts milled ethnic Jarawa, principally Muslim merchants and herders; next to them were the Tarok and Goemai, predominantly farmers and Christians.
God’s Country 2008
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