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Indian President’s passionate plea against assimilating tribes
[image: The President warned that 'so-called development' must not be
allowed to destroy the Jarawa
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The President warned that 'so-called development' must not be allowed to
destroy the Jarawa tribe
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In a strongly worded speech the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, said
this week at the inauguration of the ‘Andaman & Nicobar Tribal Research and
Training Institute’ (ANTRI) that attempts to assimilate
tribes<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=ae1e82169d&e=fdc6267ad9>into
the mainstream had failed and were wrong.
The President told the gathering in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands that
‘the overwhelming view today is that assimilation has failed’ as it has led
to the complete disappearance of whole peoples. This is felt particularly
in the Andamans where Boa
Sr<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=fde5da9fa3&e=fdc6267ad9>,
the last of the Bo tribe, died four years ago. The knowledge and language
of her people died with her.
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Boa Sr was the last member of the Bo tribe.
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Mukherjee called for the
Jarawa<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=2e7b90160b&e=fdc6267ad9>tribe
in the Andaman Islands to be protected ‘in their own ways, in their
own environment and in their own circumstances’, adding that he was against
disturbing them in any way for ‘so-called development’.
He emphasized the importance of tribal peoples themselves having ‘total
involvement’ in the policies that affect them, stating that thrusting our
own views on them would be
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The President also challenged the derogatory notion that tribal peoples,
such as the Jarawa, are living in the past – a view that often leads to
them being called backward or primitive. He said ‘they are not living as
they did a few centuries ago, they have also changed in their own way’.
These statements echo the message of the Proud not
Primitive<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=57c6cae522&e=fdc6267ad9>campaign
which calls for mainstreaming policies and language to be
abandoned in India and for tribes such as the Jarawa to be able to make
their own choices about how they live on their own land.
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* Bushman beaten by Botswana’s paramilitary police *
[image: Mogolodi Moeti was attacked by paramilitary police 'as an example
to others' defending the Bushmen's
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Mogolodi Moeti was attacked by paramilitary police 'as an example to
others' defending the Bushmen's rights.
© Survival
A Bushman from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve <http://tribes/bushmen> (
CKGR) in Botswana has been held at gunpoint and beaten by members of
Botswana’s paramilitary police (SSG).
Mogolodi Moeti, a long-standing defender of the Bushmen’s rights, was
confronted by several members of the SSG and a park
guard<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=d3933b635b&e=fdc6267ad9>at
his home in a government resettlement camp, New Xade.
Moeti was beaten with the butt of a gun and his house was searched for
illegal bush meat. Finding nothing, the officers then drove Moeti away and
returned him later the same day with no charge.
The case has been filed with local police, who are investigating.
The incident is the latest in a long history of violence against the
Bushmen by police and government officials, including shootings against
Bushmen<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=4c01dcc70d&e=fdc6267ad9>attempting
to carry water into the reserve for their families.
In three waves of forced evictions in 1997, 2002 and 2005, the Bushmen were
driven from their ancestral land in the reserve by government trucks and
dumped in camps they later described as ‘places of death’.
Despite a 2006 High Court
ruling<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=f82baaf418&e=fdc6267ad9>upholding
the Bushmen’s rights to return home and to apply for hunting
permits, the majority have been refused entry to settle in the reserve, and
no hunting licenses have been issued.
A recent BBC report found alcoholism and
AIDS<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=3f0f1a25ee&e=fdc6267ad9>in
the destitute camps that have been occupied by many of the Bushmen for
over a decade.
Moeti’s attackers told him he was being made an example of to dissuade
others from attempting to return to their homeland.
‘This is why we have barred your lawyer (the Bushmen’s British
barrister<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=15e1023fd3&e=fdc6267ad9>Gordon
Bennett) so we can do whatever we like to you’, an
SSG told Moeti.
Survival is calling for an international boycott of tourism to
Botswana<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=466494280b&e=fdc6267ad9>in
protest against the government’s treatment of the Bushmen.
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