Andaman Islanders

[ashokdeiva]

this is the kind of Shinning India is

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but I liked your attempt to derail the topic...

Kindly read about the tribal people who live there, they are still not cultured modernly to wear cloths, they live naked and some one has asked them to dance thier cultural dance and sing "Kumbayah".
No one is forcing them to dance, they were asked and they danced for a few bucks.

Now get a life

 

[IndoCarib]

this is the kind of Shinning India is

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but I liked your attempt to derail the topic...

I liked your failed attempt at sarcasm.

On topic, it is an old video which surfaced now. And aborigines of andaman dance naked. nothing new here.

Video shows tribal girls forced to dance naked waist up; authorities say clip 10 years old


Read more at: Video shows tribal girls forced to dance naked waist up; authorities say clip 10 years old

 

[Lord Of Gondor]

the title was from a twitt by a Hindu.

hopefully, this is solved...

A simple yes or no would have done it but okay,the Hindu is right.
This is what the title in the Guardian says:

Andaman Islanders 'forced to dance' for tourists - video

 

[Amolthebest]

Sad and shameful

 

[Imran Khan]

very bad news for humans like me .please stop and think




Andaman women have to dance naked for food



Last Updated: Wednesday, January 11, 2012, 14:11



Tags: Andaman tribes, Jarawa tribe, Naked dance
Andaman women have to dance naked for food Zeenews Bureau

New Delhi/Port Blair: In a shocking disclosure, a leading British newspaper has released an amateur video footage shot in the Andaman Islands which shows tribal women, naked waist up, dancing for tourists.

The tribe in question is the Jarawa tribe, who have inhabited the Andaman Islands for thousands of years.

The Guardian newspaper reported that the women are forced to dance, mostly naked, for tourists’ amusement by local police who are paid a bribe by the visitors. And the inflow of tourists has only gone up in the recent past thanks to tour companies that run safaris through jungles on the islands every day.

In the video shot by a tourist, a police officer not seen in the video is heard telling the Jarawa women to dance.

"Dance," he is heard telling. "Dance for me."

The officer was reportedly paid a 200 pound bribe by wealthy tourists to get the women dance. "I gave you food," he is heard telling the women.

The Jarawa is a reclusive tribe with whom the contact has been established only recently. It is the tribe’s first effort to reach out to the outside world. And what a shame this effort has turned out to be.

As per official data, there are 403 members in the Jarawa tribe who live in a jungle reserve on South Andaman. While being trusting and innocent, they are vulnerable and that is what is leading to their exploitation.

Govt seeks explanation

The Indian government today asked the Andaman and Nicobar administration to explain how half naked tribal women were forced to dance for tourists.

Terming the incident "obnoxious and disgusting", Tribal Affairs Minister KP Singh Deo told a television news channel: "It is disgraceful if something like this is happening.

"It ... cannot be pardoned. It deserves exemplary punishment," he said.

Law and Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said strict action should be taken against those responsible for forcing the tribal women to dance.



http://zeenews.**********/news/nation/andaman-women-have-to-dance-naked-for-food_751863.html

 

[harpoon]

It was a mistake to allow tourists to their reserve in the first place. I don't understand which moron in GoI takes such decisions.

 

[Roybot]

OK but you can clearly hear the cop, telling them to dance and that they will receive food.

Of course its wrong, but you need to read up about Jarawa people to understand the situation. Government of India has made a lot of attempt to get in touch with this tribe and provide them food, but they are very hostile towards outsiders. Tourists are not even allowed to go in their territory.

According to news reports these tourists bribed the cops to take them into Jarawa Territory.


The Hindu : States / Other States : Jarawa footage: Andaman administration to serve notice to TV channels

The Andaman and Nicobar administration on Tuesday said that it would serve legal notice on two Delhi-based TV channels telecasting a video footage showing a group of tribal women being ordered to dance for tourists by a policeman.

British newspaper, ‘The Guardian’ and ‘The Observer’, a weekly, had released video footage of police involvement in ’human safaris’ in the Andaman Islands. The videos were recently aired on the two Delhi-based channels.

The policeman had allegedly taken a bribe of £ 200 to take tourists into the protected Jarawa reserve.

While Andaman and Nicobar police remained tight-lipped about the incident, administration sources told PTI that legal notice would be served on the two TV Channels regarding this matter as the footage was one-sided and they had not taken the version of administration or cross-checked with it.

The sources said the administration was “totally against Jarawa tourism” but ruled out closure of the Andaman Trunk (ATR) road ordered by the Supreme Court a decade ago to protect the Jarawa habitat. The road cuts through South Andaman where the Jarawa reserve is located, linking Port Blair with Diglipur in North Andaman.

The official said any decision on closure of the road, the lifeline of the Middle and North Andamans, would take time as it was a policy decision but said an alternative route via sea was being chalked out to bypass the Jarawa reserve.

A Supreme Court ruling in 2002 on the Shekhar Singh Commission report had ordered closure of the ATR road to protect the Jarawas.

The scandal, first exposed by Survival International, an NGO in 2010, involves tourists using an illegal road to enter the reserve of the Jarawa tribe. Tour companies and cab drivers ‘attract’ the Jarawa with biscuits and sweets, The Guardian and The Observer had said in their report published in January last year.

The video showed a group of Jarawa women being ordered to dance for tourists by a policeman, who had reportedly accepted a £200 bribe to take them into the reserve.

One tourist had previously described a similar trip to the newspapers. “The journey through tribal reserve was like a safari ride as we were going amidst dense tropical rainforest and looking for wild animals, Jarawa tribals, to be specific”, he said.

Survival International has called for tourists to boycott the road.

Working with a local organization, SEARCH, Survival has distributed leaflets to tourists arriving at the Islands’ airport warning of the dangers of using the road. Survival’s Director Stephen Corry said, “This story reeks of colonialism and the disgusting and degrading ‘human zoos’ of the past.”

“Quite clearly, some people’s attitudes towards tribal people haven’t moved on a jot. The Jarawa are not circus ponies bound to dance at anyone’s bidding,” Mr. Cory said.

The lone Member of Parliament from the Islands, Bishnupada Ray told PTI that the video tapes were very old and government should take immediate action against this.

He said that ATR road should not be shut down because the ATR is the life line of Middle and North Andamans people. He also said in the present scenario, the Jarawas wanted to come into mainstream and the government needed to “welcome and support the Jarawa community to join the mainstream on humanitarian ground.”

Renowned environmentalist of Andaman, Samir Achariya, however, supported the Shekhar Singh Commission recommendation on closure of the ATR road for survival of primitive Jarawa tribe.

So these fckers first bribe the police, break the law and go into Jarawa territory and then create all this drama about it.

Everyone was tribal at one point ffs! Why should these tree huggers be allowed to enjoy the modernities and amenties of civilised world and the tribals should be left alone to suffer?

All these tree huggers can go and get fcked. The road must not be closed

 

[SpArK]

very bad news for humans like me .please stop and think




Andaman women have to dance naked for food



Last Updated: Wednesday, January 11, 2012, 14:11

Tags: Andaman tribes, Jarawa tribe, Naked dance
Andaman women have to dance naked for food Zeenews Bureau

New Delhi/Port Blair: In a shocking disclosure, a leading British newspaper has released an amateur video footage shot in the Andaman Islands which shows tribal women, naked waist up, dancing for tourists.

The tribe in question is the Jarawa tribe, who have inhabited the Andaman Islands for thousands of years.

The Guardian newspaper reported that the women are forced to dance, mostly naked, for tourists’ amusement by local police who are paid a bribe by the visitors. And the inflow of tourists has only gone up in the recent past thanks to tour companies that run safaris through jungles on the islands every day.

In the video shot by a tourist, a police officer not seen in the video is heard telling the Jarawa women to dance.

"Dance," he is heard telling. "Dance for me."

The officer was reportedly paid a 200 pound bribe by wealthy tourists to get the women dance. "I gave you food," he is heard telling the women.

The Jarawa is a reclusive tribe with whom the contact has been established only recently. It is the tribe’s first effort to reach out to the outside world. And what a shame this effort has turned out to be.

As per official data, there are 403 members in the Jarawa tribe who live in a jungle reserve on South Andaman. While being trusting and innocent, they are vulnerable and that is what is leading to their exploitation.

Govt seeks explanation

The Indian government today asked the Andaman and Nicobar administration to explain how half naked tribal women were forced to dance for tourists.

Terming the incident "obnoxious and disgusting", Tribal Affairs Minister KP Singh Deo told a television news channel: "It is disgraceful if something like this is happening.

"It ... cannot be pardoned. It deserves exemplary punishment," he said.

Law and Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said strict action should be taken against those responsible for forcing the tribal women to dance.



http://zeenews.**********/news/nation/andaman-women-have-to-dance-naked-for-food_751863.html

That explains everything. The tribe has no outside contact.. never seen a TV or have seen even a book. They have been in middle of ocean for centuuries.. They even dont need money too as they are not buying anything from outside

During the Tsunami , it was believed they were all dead and an IAF heli confirmed they are safe.


There are many such tribes in hundreds of Islands of Andamans..



But yes shinnnning India blah blah blaahhh..

 

[Rafi]

It was a mistake to allow tourists to their reserve in the first place. I don't understand which moron in GoI takes such decisions.

Innocent tribal people should be protected - from the horror of exploitation of the modern world.

 

[CaptainJackSparrow]

They don't have to 'dance naked' for food.

They just have to 'dance' for food.

Naked is their way of life.

 

[SpArK]

Innocent tribal people should be protected - from the horror of exploitation of the modern world.

 

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Innocent tribal people should be protected - from the horror of exploitation of the modern world.

They are protected already.

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lol WTF is that??

 

[RPK]

Imran delete the image......

 

[Lord Of Gondor]

Innocent tribal people should be protected - from the horror of exploitation of the modern world.

Actually,many pockets in the Andaman are protected as they contain "Indigenous populations" and the right to entry is restricted only to certain people.

 

[Rafi]

What is funny about protecting people who have been isolated from the modern world, or do you think they don't need protection.