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Rare first-hand testimony of Andaman tribe reveals shocking
exploitation
[image: A rare first-hand account has emerged of the shocking sexual
exploitation of Jarawa women and the introduction of alcohol and drugs to
the vulnerable tribe on India's Andaman
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A rare first-hand account has emerged of the shocking sexual exploitation
of Jarawa women and the introduction of alcohol and drugs to the vulnerable
tribe on India's Andaman Islands.
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An extremely rare first-hand account of the shocking extent of sexual
exploitation of young women of the Jarawa
tribe<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=220efe3229&e=fdc6267ad9>on
India’s Andaman Islands has emerged.
In an audio recording obtained by Survival International and reported by the
British newspaper The
Observer<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=d8ad37bd69&e=fdc6267ad9>,
a young Jarawa man reports that poachers regularly enter his tribe’s
protected reserve and lure young Jarawa women with alcohol or drugs to
sexually exploit them.
The young Jarawa man said, ‘The girls say, that the outside boys pressure
them to do a lot. They pressure them with their hands and fingernails, when
the girls get angry. They chase them under the influence of alcohol. They
have sex with the girls… They drink alcohol in the girls’ house. They sleep
in the Jarawa’s house. They smoke marijuana and then chase the girls.’
He went on to list the names of poachers who come into their forest to
sexually exploit the Jarawa girls.
The interview first appeared in the Andaman
Chronicle<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=4f410fdbbd&e=fdc6267ad9>,
a local newspaper, which also reports an alarming increase in
confrontations between the Jarawa and settlers who live around the edges of
their reserve.
According to the reports, a group of Jarawa confronted a party of locals on
a beach near the edge of the Jarawa reserve last weekend. It is believed
that the Jarawa are seeking to punish those who had sexually exploited
Jarawa girls.
[image: Boa Snr was the last of the Bo. Her tribe was decimated by diseases
introduced by British
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Boa Snr was the last of the Bo. Her tribe was decimated by diseases
introduced by British colonizers.
© Alok Das
Further reports emerged that a group of 60 settlers recently ventured to
the edge of the tribe’s reserve with the intention of attacking the Jarawa
community, who fled into the forest.
The 400-strong Jarawa are extremely vulnerable to exploitation, diseases
and dependency on goods such as alcohol brought in by outsiders. The
nomadic hunter-gatherers only started to come out of their forest without
their bows and arrows and have friendly contact with their neighbors in
1998.
Today, hundreds of tourists travel through their land in the hope of
spotting a member of the tribe, in what has become known as ‘human
safaris’<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=6542c259ea&e=fdc6267ad9>
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Sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS are a grave threat for recently
contacted
tribes<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=9a2b499d20&e=fdc6267ad9>such
as the Jarawa, and women are commonly exploited by more powerful
outsiders. The Jarawa’s neighbors, the Great Andamenese, were nearly wiped
out by diseases brought in by the British colonizers in the 19th Century,
including syphilis.
Survival’s Director Stephen Corry said today, ’It’s extremely disturbing to
hear, directly from the Jarawa, how they are being exploited by
unscrupulous outsiders and given alcohol and marijuana to lure and exploit
Jarawa women. Not only are these substances being used to take sexual
advantage of vulnerable women and girls, but they also risk creating a
dangerous dependency which would be devastating for the tribe.
‘It is essential that those responsible be prosecuted and that any
officials who have colluded, or turned a blind eye to these activities,
must also be investigated and punished.’
*Note to editors:*
- Listen to the audio recording of the Jarawa
man<http://survival-international.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b14580b05b832fb959c4ee444&id=a0276ce22a&e=fdc6267ad9>(with
English translation)
*Read this online: http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/9957
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