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India risks genocide of uncontacted island tribe with mega-port plan, scholars warn
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the media after he arrived in the Parliament on the first day of its budget session in New Delhi, India, January 31, 2024
THIRTY-NINE international genocide scholars have warned the Indian government that its plans to turn an uncontacted tribe’s island into a mega-port and city will wipe them out.
Great Nicobar Island in the Indian Ocean is home to an estimated 300 Shompen hunter-gatherers, two-thirds of whom are uncontacted.
They are one of the most isolated tribes on Earth and live in the dense rainforests that occupy the interior of the island.
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