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Before the 19th century, the Jarawa homelands were located in the southeast part of South Andaman Island and nearby islets. With the establishment of the initial British settlement, these are suspected to have been largely depopulated by disease shortly after 1789.[6] The Great Andamanese tribes were similarly depopulated by their overuse of alcohol and opium after their introduction, leaving open the western areas which the Jarawa gradually made their new homeland. The spreading of opium and alcohol was to some extent sponsored by the colonial authorities in order to depopulate the Jarawa.[7] The immigration of mainland Indian and Karen (Burmese) settlers, beginning about two centuries ago, accelerated this process.

Prior to their initiating contact with settled populations in 1997, the Jarawa were noted for vigorously maintaining their independence and distance from external groups, actively discouraging most incursions and attempts at contact. Since 1998, they have been in increasing contact with the outside world and have increasingly been the initiators of such contact. All contact, especially with tourists, remains extremely dangerous to the Jarawa due to the risk of disease.

In 2013, the Supreme Court banned tourists from taking the ATR after a video shot by a journalist showed policemen forcing six Jarawa women to dance for tourists. The court reversed the decision after the state administration submitted a notification promising that no tourist or commercial establishment in the area would be permitted.
"The administration has long prioritised the livelihood of the locals," says Manish Chandi from the Andaman Nicobar Environment Team, who has been studying the islands for the past 18 years.

Epoch Times 2012-07-03 skrev:Unescos omfattande utredning om Jarawasituationen berättar om dödsfall i samband med byggandet av vägen.

De 343 km långa vägen har ”marginaliserat Jarawa såsom ingenting annat” noterar rapporten som citerade en nyckelperson inom den indiska administrationen.

”Jarawastammen traumatiserades av den storskaliga skogsskövlingen och användandet av bullriga, stora maskiner i byggandet av vägen, vilka förmodligen också körde iväg deras bytesdjur. Vägen har också kraftigt skurit av deras fria tillgång till den östra kusten vilket resulterat i ytterligare förlust av mark och minskning av det område där de kan samla mat och resurser.”

Rapporten skriver att Jarawakrigare plundrat arbetsläger med män som kommit för att bygga vägen och då mötts av beväpnad polis.

”Många liv på båda sidor förlorades i sammandrabbningen”, noterar rapporten.

År 2002 beslutade den indiska högsta domstolen att vägen skulle stängas men den förblir öppen och används flitigt av turister, vilka för in omkring 250 fordon dagligen i Jarawaskogen, enligt Survival.

Ett foto som organisationen publicerat visar hur tiotals bilar, de flesta stadsjeepar, står tätt packade på den lilla asfaltsvägen.

Guardian skrev:In 1996, a Jarawa boy broke his leg while trying to steal fruit from a modern settlement. He was taken to hospital and spent five months recuperating. He learned a bit of Hindi and discovered television. Then he returned to his tribe.

About a year later, the boy led a group of Jarawas out of the forest in a formal peace overture from the community after centuries of hostilities. Yet the Jarawa experience is no longer regarded as a triumph. Diseases such as measles have ravaged the community. Authorities have been implicated in helping to run “human safaris” in Jarawa territory. Anthropologists fear they are heading the way of other contacted Andaman tribes.

“Think of the horrible experience of the Great Andamanese tribe,” says Kanchan Mukhopadhyay, a former officer with India’s anthropological survey who served on the islands. “They died en masse. And the Onge tribe – they don’t hunt or fish anymore. They are totally dependent on food supplied by the authorities.”

The five major groups of Andamanese are:
Great Andamanese, traditionally of the Great Andaman archipelago but now living on Strait Island. Their population was 52 as of 2010.[24]
Jarawa traditionally of the southern part of South Andaman Island in the Great Andaman archipelago but now living in the ex-Great Andamanese homeland in the West Coast and central parts of South and Middle Andaman Islands. Their population was 380 as of 2011.[25]
Jangil or Rutland Jarawa of Rutland Island, extinct by 1921[16]
Onge of Little Andaman, at 101 individuals as of 2011.[25]
Sentinelese of North Sentinel Island, estimated to be 100 to 200 individuals.

The Telegraph 26 Jul 2009 skrev:For centuries the Jarawa tribe were notorious for using bows and arrows to kill any intruder into their jungle home, deep in the interior of a tropical island.

Now, however, their days as feared warriors are over and the Jarawa - until recently one of Asia's last isolated tribes of hunter-gatherers - are more likely to be found waiting by a roadside to beg biscuits and cakes from tourists.
Over the last decade, the number of tourist trips into their jungle reserve has grown so rapidly that critics say it increasingly resembles a human safari park. An array of notices at the entrance to the forest instructs visitors not to stop or allow the Jarawa into their vehicles, not to take photographs - and not to feed the tribesmen or to give them clothing.
Yet visitors to the Jarawas' home in the Andaman Islands seem unable to resist the temptation to offer snacks, drinks and other inducements to men, women and children to pose for photographs and show off their exotic tribal costumes.

Trips to see the Jarawa - officially on the pretext of visiting mud volcanoes that lie within the reserve - have become big business on the islands, with tour guides and taxi drivers joking that they are offering "human safaris". Postcards of naked Jarawa are also sold.
Visitors are allowed to use the road through the reserve and although they are not supposed to stop, invariably they do.
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The number of visitors from mainland India has increased in the last few years as cheap flights to the Andamans have replaced the four-day boat journey that was once the only cost-effective way to get there.
Businessmen on the islands are keen to begin flights one day from nearby Phuket, a popular resort in Thailand, threatening to bring masses of visitors.

Alien skrev:Jag funderar på en sak. Om de inte blivit lågfertila pga inavel, hur kommer det sig att de inte blivit överbefolkade på ön?

Julianus skrev:Amerikanen får skylla sig själv!

Alien skrev:

slackern skrev:

Alien skrev: Eller dödande av "överflödiga" barn? De kanske offrade dem till gudarna. Våra egna förfäder satte ut barnen i skogen tills kristendomen lärde att det var fel.

Du vet väl att det där bara är en myt precis som ättestupa är?

Nej, har du några bevis för det?

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I ett hedniskt vikingasamhälle betraktades barnet istället som ett foster fram tills dess att det hade ätit vid mammans bröst. Det var därför helt socialt accepterat att sätta ut det oammade barnet i skogen, om det till exempel misstänktes vara missbildat eller om familjen inte ansåg sig ha råd med fler barn.

The Telegraph 15 Mar 2016 skrev:The murder of a five-month-old infant on a remote Indian Ocean island has left police at a loss and triggered a debate over the rule of law among one of the world's most primitive tribes.
The crime took place among the Jarawa, a group of around 400 nomadic hunter-gatherers who live in the Andaman Island archipelago, protected from contact with the outside world by Indian law.
Because the baby was fair skinned, it was assumed he had been fathered by an outsider, and killed according to a ritual custom of the tribe.
In the past Indian authorities, who seek to interfere as little as possible with the aboriginal culture, have turned a blind eye to such incidents.
Indeed, in the 200 years since British settlers arrived to set up a penal colony on the island, no Jarawa tribesman has even been named as a suspect in a crime.

One of those is accused of plying the alleged Jarawa murderer with alcohol before convincing him to kill the young boy.
The other is accused of fathering the murdered infant with a tribal woman. It is believed he could have faced retribution from either the Jarawa, or his own community, had his actions been discovered.
Meanwhile, the Jarawa man, who was seen by two witnesses entering the mother's tent the night before the boy was found drowned, continues to walk free.

“As of now, the police cannot arrest the Jarawa man,” said Denis Giles, editor of the local Andaman Chronicle. “The Indian government has to decide how much of the rules and regulations that are implemented in the outside world can be implemented on the Jarawa tribe.”
Among Andaman residents, opinion remains divided.
Samir Acharya, a local activist, told the New York Times that the Jarawa “have the right to maintain the purity of their race.”
“If they decide such a child should be wasted, let them do it,” he said.

Atul Kumar Thakur, the police superintendent overseeing the case, told the same newspaper that “Nobody is above the law”, even the Jarawa, before adding his force was “duty-bound to protect their interests”.

Alien skrev:Sentineleserna tycks för tillfället klara sig bra; värre är det för de missledda missionärer, fiskare el skeppsbrutna som råkar ut för dem.

Men Jarawastammen tycks vara illa ute.

År 2016 mördades en ljushyad baby - i ett ritualmord?

I vissa delar av Afrika där en viss häxtro förekommer tros kroppsdelar från albinos ge magisk kraft. De attackeras och stympas och förövarna säljer kroppsdelarna vidare. Det förekommer till och med fall där kvarlevor plundras från kyrkogårdar, enligt Ikponwosa Ero, FN:s expert i frågan.
– Personer med albinism, och föräldrar till barn med albinism, lever ständigt i rädsla för en attack, säger hon till CNN.

DN skrev:Polisen på den indiska ögruppen Andamanerna söker ett amerikanskt missionärspar som ska ha uppmuntrat John Allen Chau att åka till ön Norra Sentinel. Den 27-åriga amerikanen dödades av en svärm av pilar när han klev i land på den otillgängliga ön.

Genom att undersöka John Allen Chaus mobiltelefon har indisk polis upptäckt att 27-åringen hade kontakt med ett amerikanskt par innan han åkte till Norra Sentinel. De två amerikanerna har kopplingar till en evangelisk församling och använde ett indiskt mobilabonnemang, rapporterar The Times of India.

För tolv år sedan dödade sentineleserna två fiskare. Efter en vecka grävde stamfolket upp kropparna och spetsade dem på bambupålar. Enligt polisen skulle något liknande kunna hända den här gången.

Alien skrev:Jag känner att jag skulle tycka det var rätt om polisen då sprutade typ tårgas på "vildmännen" och tog med sig kroppen då. Men det kommer inte att hända, stammen ska ju lämnas ifred vad de än gör.