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India risks genocide of uncontacted island tribe with mega-port plan, scholars warn
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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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