Human safaris threaten Andaman tribe

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“A Jarawa man and boy by the side of the Andamans Trunk Road.” PHOTO/Salome

‘The Jarawa people lived successfully on their island without contact with outsiders for probably about 55,000 years, until 1998. Today, a road runs right through their forest home, and they risk decimation by disease. They call themselves the Ang, which means ‘human being’, yet they are being ogled at like animals in a game reserve.

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