Modern human zoo Bashny.Net

Who would have thought that in our civilized time, so the money can overshadow the conscience of businessmen that they arranged for the tourists a real human zoo in the Andaman Islands - an archipelago in the Indian Ocean.

Tourists shoot for bribes in the photo and video dzharava representatives - a primitive tribe, one of India's indigenous people belonging to the Andaman Islands, and treat them like animals in a zoo.

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This tribe began to contact with the modern world only at the end of the XX century. Its population is about 300-400 people, locals and tourists is forbidden to communicate with dzharava, shoot them in the photo and video, otherwise, the offender will be arrested and brought before the court.



However, for a bribe - about $ 560 - tourists can violate these prohibitions, and the local police turn a blind eye to it. Moreover, foreigners dzharava throw food like animals in a zoo, forced to dance and perform different tricks.



Some men even had sex with women dzharava. Children who were born after these connections were not accepted into the tribe and killed. As it turned out, the human zoo is very popular among foreign tourists.

For information about the illegal attraction for the first time unveiled a photographer and journalist Gethin Chamberlain. Excursion in the territories under the pretext dzharava organized visits to the caves near Port Blair - the largest city and the administrative center of the Andaman Islands.



Dzharava live in a mountainous area in the west of the archipelago, foraged hunting and gathering fruit. The racial type of this tribe - the Negritos, branch Australoid big race. This is one of the most closed for communication tribes. Dzharava occasionally clashed with the local Indians, as they violate the limits of their possessions.



For a long time it was not possible to establish with this tribe of friendly contacts. Only anthropologists rarely visited areas of residence dzharava, leaving them gifts - food, textiles, etc. However, all these gifts until recently rejected dzharava.



In 1974. Representatives of the Indian missionary service Aboriginal managed to woo the tribe. After that, the island administration regularly start delivering tribe "humanitarian aid" in the form of rice.

Local Indians forbidden to communicate with people dzharava, and the program has been reduced to a minimum by the end of the 1990s. after a series of hostile encounters that led to the deaths, and for fear of introducing diseases into their group. Authorities declared parts of habitats of protected Aboriginal and closed to the visit and lumbering.



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