Hunter-gatherer Tribe Booted for UA Royal Playground?
This is disgusting.
50,000 Years of Resilience May Not Save Tribe – Tanzania Safari Deal Lets Arab Royalty Use Lands (Washington Post, Stephanie McCrummen, Sunday, June 10, 2007; Page A01
One of the last remaining tribes of hunter-gatherers on the planet is on the verge of vanishing into the modern world. The transition has been long underway, but members of the dwindling Hadzabe tribe, who now number fewer than 1,500, say it is being unduly hastened by a United Arab Emirates royal family, which plans to use the tribal hunting land as a personal safari playground.
Please read the whole article.
You can also respond via email:
Tanzanian Embassy Email: ubalozi@tanzaniaembassy-us.org
UAE Embassy Email: media@uaeembassy-usa.org
(thanks to Bob Higgins at Worldwide Sawdust)
Yeah, isn’t this wonderful?
The faces of the exploiters change but the exploited remain constant. Though actually there is a history of exploitation by Arab political elites along the East African coast that goes back for centuries.
Progress? Darwinism?
I don’t know how I feel about this. On one hand, it is sad but on the other, It’s life and goes on everyday and will keep happening until one civilisation becomes dominant on this planet.
A friggin’ safari playground? They’re wiping out a civilization, I don’t care how small it is, for a stinkin’ playground?
Yes, but we practically wiped out a civilisation in the name of colonisation of New Holland.
Before then other civilsations were wiped out in the colonisation of North and South America.
What difference if it is for colonisation or expansion or a safari playground?