Video » Jarawa

The Sentinelese continue to guard their independence, and have no peaceful contact with outsiders. This footage is from one of many government attempts to establish such contact by fostering a dependence on outside gifts such as coconuts. It shows one of the few known occasions when the Sentinelese have approached the contact boats. After protests by Survival and local supporters, such contact trips have officially stopped, as they put both those taking part, and the Sentinelese, at grave risk.
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Short documentary by Journeyman Pictures on the tribes of the Andaman islands, focusing particularly on the Jarawa, at a time when they were just losing their fear of the Indian settlers and the vehicles which travel along the highway cutting through the Jarawa reserve. The road remains open, despite an order from India's Supreme Court that it should be closed.
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Film of a government contact mission to the Jarawa. Until 1998, the Jarawa resisted contact with the Indian settlers who now occupy their islands, and there were frequent violent clashes. The Indian authorities organised contact expeditions in an attempt to 'pacify' the Jarawa. Such contacts were largely uncontrolled, and put both sides at great risk. Survival campaigned for such trips to be stopped.
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Survival's Asia campaigner Sophie Grig talks to CNN about the fate of the tribes of the Andaman and Nicobar islands after the devastating tsunami.
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