Oh don't worry. They will say the tribes were all hindus and will start importing all mainstream indian hindus there to replace the tribal population. And they will say there was no such genocide. Nothing new here. It's what India has been doing since time immemorial. Hope this helps.
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Governments rarely ACTUALLY care about their most vulnerable citizens, as they have no money or influence. Greed is lethal! And so is prestige.
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As an Indian i wanna say, India has to respect the human rights along with has to follow International humanitarian law!!!!
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This is very concerning, the Hindu nationalists in India (including Modi) love Zionism and ethnic cleansing, and have the typical supremacist attitudes that precede genocide. How can we keep this from even coming close?
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Imagining eradicating a group of people because you dont want them there? How childish and shallow
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The project quite frankly makes no sense. The Government cannot even make the current capital of Andaman, Port Blair into Hong Kong, but wants to build a new city in an Island that is closer to Indonesia than it is to either Port Blair or the mainland.
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Well it's not surprising they consider committing a genocide, India is Israel's best friends, and criminals would always like to commit wrongdoings whenever they could to get the things that they want, how sickening..
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Thank you for this information! I did not know this was happening
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What better time to exploit the marginalized than when empires fear their own demise? The spoils of colonialism are second only to war.
1 day ago | 8
TRT, tell us about students, journalists , lawyers and opposition leaders jailed for protesting Erdogan.
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Didn't know anything about it before. If this is true I would say, leave them alone.
1 day ago | 28
Is it Capitalism or the other isms? Leave them alone.
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If you've seen their holy river, you know they don't care about anything at all.
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TRT World
A new report by the NGO Survival International warns that New Delhi risks committing a “genocide” against an uncontacted tribe if it pursues its plan to develop the “Hong Kong of India” on Great Nicobar Island in the Indian Ocean, where around 300 nomadic hunter-gatherers live.
The megaproject — seen by experts as part of India’s strategy to counter China’s growing influence in the region — includes a port, airport, defense base, power station, industrial park, and is expected to accommodate a city of 650,000 residents within 30 years.
“The Shompen have the right to survive and just want to be left in peace. The government must allow them to do so by scrapping this project, rather than pressing ahead and condemning the Shompen to annihilation,” said Survival International Director Caroline Pearce, adding that her organization has submitted the report to several UN officials.
Survival International describes the Shompen as “one of the world’s most isolated tribes,” stating they have lived on the island “for up to 10,000 years” and that most members have repeatedly rejected “all contact with outsiders.”
In February 2024, thirty-nine genocide scholars urged India to suspend the project, warning that the indigenous group “will face genocide if the plan to turn their island into the ‘Hong Kong of India’ goes ahead.”
In April 2024, a group of Indian anthropologists and scientists echoed the concern, calling on the government to “halt this project before it’s too late.”
In August 2024, the BBC reported that Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said the project “will not disturb or displace” tribal communities and that it had received environmental clearances based on the “rigour of environmental scrutiny.”
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