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January 2012
“DANCE,” the policeman says. The girls, naked from the waist up, jiggle for him. The camera, held by a tourist, pans round to another young woman, naked but for a bag of some sort of yellow grain, held awkwardly in front of her groin. “Dance for me,” the policeman commands. The young woman giggles a little, looks shy, hops from foot to foot. “Dance, karo, dance”. But she won’t dance. The camera swings back to the others. They clap, dance, jump, just as they have been paid to do.
India orders crackdown on 'human safaris' in the Andaman Islands 14 January 2012 Embarrassed officials in the Andaman Islands are desperately attempting to deal with the fallout from reported abuse of tribal women, after revelations in the Observer that they were being exploited for the benefit of paying tourists. Video footage capturing the daily "human safaris" through the forest home of the islands' recently contacted Jarawa tribe has provoked worldwide outrage. The footage, in which an off-camera police officer orders partly naked Jarawa women to dance for tourists in return for food, was described in India as a "national disgrace".
Tourists in India told to avoid 'human safaris' as row widens 21 January 2012 They are holidays billed as an opportunity to enter another world, a chance to see the world's last primitive tribes up close in their natural environment. The brochures tease and at times, critics say, titillate. Take the Delhi-based Aces Indian Tours, which invites visitors to travel to see the Bonda people, an ancient tribe found in the remote hilly regions of the state of Orissa.
'Human safaris' in India: tour operators face prison 29 January 2012 British and international tour operators have been warned that they will face prosecution if they continue to offer "human safaris" to India. Three Indian tour operators have already been charged in connection with the Observer's investigation into "human safaris" and two men are facing up to seven years in jail if convicted.
THE official mascots for the London Olympics are made in a Chinese sweatshop which pays workers just 18p per cuddly toy. The stuffed animals Mandeville and Wenlock, plus GB team mascot Pride the Lion, sell here for more than 100 TIMES that at £20.
NEHAL Sonawane sits on the bed of the neat little middle class house in the Indian city of Pune, waiting anxiously for news from England of investigation into the racist murder of her little brother Anuj. Her husband Rakesh is talking urgently into the phone to the police in Manchester, trying to find out when the body will be flown home. That is what the family wants most now: that and to understand what was in the mind of the gunman.
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