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Outrage over Indian islands 'human zoo' video

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Rights campaigners and politicians Wednesday condemned a video showing women from a protected and primitive tribe dancing for tourists reportedly in exchange for food on India's Andaman Islands.

British newspaper The Observer released the undated video showing Jarawa tribal women -- some of them naked -- being lured to dance and sing after a bribe was allegedly paid to a policeman to produce them.

Under Indian laws designed to protect ancient tribal groups susceptible to outside influence and disease, photographing or coming into contact with the Jarawa and some of the Andaman aborigines is banned.

The tribe, thought to have been among the first people to migrate successfully from Africa to Asia, lives a nomadic existence in the lush, tropical forests of the Andamans in the Indian Ocean.

India's Tribal Affairs Minister V. Kishore Chandra Deo on Wednesday said an investigation had been ordered.

"An inquiry has been ordered and it is being headed by the chief secretary and director-general of police of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands," Deo told the Press Trust of India news agency.

"It's deplorable. You cannot treat human beings like beasts for the sake of money. Whatever kind of tourism is that, I totally disapprove of that and it is being banned also," the minister added.

Survival International, which lobbies on behalf of tribal groups worldwide, said the video showed tourists apparently enjoying "human zoos."

"Quite clearly, some people's attitudes towards tribal peoples haven't moved on a jot. The Jarawa are not circus ponies bound to dance at anyone's bidding," said Stephen Corry, the group's director, in a press release.
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Source: Outrage over Indian islands 'human zoo' video - Yahoo! News

What do you think about "human zoos"? Seems pretty unethical and strange, to me.
 
If the Jawarans had a problem with it, they'd put a stop to it themselves-- let them try that with the Sentinelese and see how far it plays.
 
Viktyr Korimir said:
If the Jawarans had a problem with it, they'd put a stop to it themselves-- let them try that with the Sentinelese and see how far it plays.
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That's basically what I was thinking. What gives the Indian government the right to tell them that they can't dance for food?
 
They dance for food on Bourban Street!
 
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