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Friday, January 6, 2012

The Jarawa's People.

Jarawa is a tribe with 403 people. It's located in the Bay of Bengal in a jungle reserve, belonging to India. Its members, completely ignoring our culture, are trusting, innocent and hugely vulnerable to exploitation. It all started when in 1996 Enmai, a child of the tribe was taken to the hospital in the region, when he returned, spoke fantastic things about the outside world. This, encouraged at other member of tribe, specially the young people, to explore out of the jungle. The contact of this people with the foreign and tourists has been at the detriment of the Jarawa's people. The strange ones abuse of Jarawa's people, humiliating, forcing them to indignities by only entertainment. It's a trophy for the strangers take a recording or a photograph of this people, women naked from the waist up, men and boys absurdly gullible, obeying the orders from strangers by food or catchpenny. Also, the contact with foreign and tourist have made that people become addicted to tobacco, stimulant and others things. Jarawa’s women are victims of sexual exploitation, giving birth to bastards who are killed by the tribe. This people can't resist very well external diseases. For that reasons, The Indian Supreme Court order in 2002 reduce the number of convoys that spend on the road next to jungle in the Jarawa's zone. Then, in 2007 the Indian government established a buffer zone around the reserve. It suppose, the policemen must to protect this people, instead they accept bribes from the tourist and they are in many times who exploit the Jarawa's people.

2 comments:

Sarasvati77 said...

A tribe of humans can not be regarded as entertainment or curiosity for others in a supposed greater civility

Francisco Bustos D. said...

Barbara... your post is one of the most interesting articles that I ever read at the internet. I hadn´t hear about the Jarawa before. I think that India should take all the neccesary decisions to protect them.

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