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June 10th, 2007 at 4:32 pm

Hunter-gatherer Tribe Booted for UA Royal Playground?

in: Activism, Cultural, Human Rights, Political, Religion

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)

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  • GeraldNo Gravatar
    4:43 pm on June 10th, 2007 1

    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.

  • darkmanNo Gravatar
    7:54 pm on June 10th, 2007 2

    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.

  • kip152No Gravatar
    8:36 pm on June 10th, 2007 3

    A friggin’ safari playground? They’re wiping out a civilization, I don’t care how small it is, for a stinkin’ playground?

  • darkmanNo Gravatar
    9:12 am on June 11th, 2007 4

    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?

 

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