Hi All

Please do your part by forwarding this petition Implement the Policies to Save
Jarawa tribe without delay to your friends and help spread awareness about the
petition.

You can read the petition and sign it before you forward it. You can view the
petition by clicking http://www.jantaraj.com/petitions/default.asp?pid=407

Regards

Pulak

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Dear Sir/Madam,

We have been talking a lot about protecting the Jarawa tribe. But all policies
and projects to protect them are still on paper. We are yet to see their
implementation.

The Jarawa tribe survived the Tsunami storm in December 2004. They are
well-acquainted with the environment and were able to perceive the on-coming
storm and hence moved to more secure place.

But now they are threatened by invasion of the local people. The development of
tourism in Andamans and treatment of Jarawa tribe people as specimens for museum
is very miserable.

The 270-strong tribe lives in the forest. Hunting with bows and arrows for their
daily diet is a routine for them. They have only had friendly contact with the
outside world since 1998. Now, the local settlers on the islands are invading
their land, stealing the animals they hunt, plying them with alcohol and
tobacco, sexually abusing Jarawa women and using the men as cheap labour in
return for a few bananas. Local police are often complicit in this abuse.

Uncontrolled contact with outsiders also carries a serious risk of infecting the
tribe with diseases to which, after thousands of years of isolation, they have
no immunity.

The tribe people may be adapting to the developments. But to forcefully push
them into assimilation with the rest of population is ruthlessness on the part
of the authorities.

I urge the authorities to take action and implement polices for the security and
safety of the Jarawa tribes.

Thank you


Pulak Barua

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