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What Happened To The Rare Tribes (Tsunami)
Times Of India ^ | 12-28-2004 | Sanjay Dutta/Chandrika Mago

Posted on 12/28/2004 6:34:30 PM PST by blam

What happened to the rare tribes?

SANJAY DUTTA & CHANDRIKA MAGO

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2004 11:19:06 PM

NEW DELHI: An enormous anthropological disaster is in the making. The killer tsunami is feared to have wiped out entire tribes — already threatened by their precariously small numbers — perhaps rendering them extinct and snapping the slender tie with a lost generation.

Officials involved in rescue operations are pessimistic, but still keeping their fingers crossed for the Sentinelese and Nicobarese, the two tribes seen as bearing the brunt of the killer wave.

The bigger fear is for the Sentinelese, anthropologically the most important tribe, living on the flat North Sentinel Island. Putting their population at about 100, officials say no body count is possible as the tribe had remained isolated. The Nicobarese, numbering about 25,000, are also feared to have suffered major losses, if not near -extinction. Clustered in 12 villages along the coast of Car Nicobar, the worst affected, it is feared nearly half of them could have been engulfed by the giant wave.

Then there are the Chowra and Teresa islands, mostly inhabited by the Nicobarese. Chowra has reported 38 deaths from a total population of 1,500. Here, too, the picture is hazy. The Onges, living on the Little Andaman island, are expected to fare a little better. So far, 14 deaths have been reported from the island. Some of these would be Onges. To begin with, they just number a 100.

The Shompens, Great Andamanese and Jarawas are expected to have fared better as they live on comparatively higher grounds. But their small number could be working against them.


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To: muawiyah
These places aren't particularly "divers" either ~ earthquakes and volcanic explosions along the Strait of Sunda have served to bring civilization to the brink of destruction several times.

Indonesia is also home to the famous Toba supervolcano, one that last erupted about 75,000 years ago. Some anthropologists who have studied mitochondrial DNA passing through human generations note that there was a drastic drop in the number of mitocondrial strains in humans around 75,000 to 74,000 years ago, closely matching the last major eruption of Toba. This meant that the Toba eruption may have come very close to wiping out the human race because of Toba's eruption effects worldwide.

61 posted on 12/28/2004 8:43:04 PM PST by RayChuang88
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To: Kitten Festival

Ahhhh. Not toooo surprised though I thought it had been successfully repressed.


62 posted on 12/28/2004 8:46:10 PM PST by Quix (HAVING A FORM of GODLINESS but DENYING IT'S POWER. I TIM 3:5)
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To: Kitten Festival

I have very similar strong feelings.

Though I realize that there's bad apples in every culture.


63 posted on 12/28/2004 8:47:08 PM PST by Quix (HAVING A FORM of GODLINESS but DENYING IT'S POWER. I TIM 3:5)
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To: diverteach

And in this case, especially in the KJV

divers places.

Sadly.


64 posted on 12/28/2004 8:48:10 PM PST by Quix (HAVING A FORM of GODLINESS but DENYING IT'S POWER. I TIM 3:5)
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To: WestTexasWend

When, in the last 6000 years, has an animal species ever been wiped out by "natural" phenomenon?


65 posted on 12/28/2004 8:48:21 PM PST by derheimwill (Love is a person, not an emotion.)
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To: Strategerist

I hope you keep watching those stats.

I hope you have a huge capacity to be honest with yourself when they dramatically change.


66 posted on 12/28/2004 8:48:54 PM PST by Quix (HAVING A FORM of GODLINESS but DENYING IT'S POWER. I TIM 3:5)
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To: Jhensy

Wellllllllllll, the cannibals

would be quite happy to

lay him on for dinner!


67 posted on 12/28/2004 8:49:42 PM PST by Quix (HAVING A FORM of GODLINESS but DENYING IT'S POWER. I TIM 3:5)
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To: derheimwill

Sounds great to me.


68 posted on 12/28/2004 8:50:10 PM PST by Quix (HAVING A FORM of GODLINESS but DENYING IT'S POWER. I TIM 3:5)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Still a huge problem throughout the region.


69 posted on 12/28/2004 8:51:55 PM PST by Quix (HAVING A FORM of GODLINESS but DENYING IT'S POWER. I TIM 3:5)
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To: oceanview

The Caribbeans is another dangerous place to go.

On my vacations I always go back to our Mother continent - the mother of civilizations - Europe.


70 posted on 12/28/2004 8:57:08 PM PST by Baraonda (Demographic is destiny. Don't hire 3rd world illegal aliens nor support businesses that hire them.)
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To: RightWhale

Unfortunate, but true.


71 posted on 12/28/2004 8:57:49 PM PST by rwfromkansas ("War is an ugly thing, but...the decayed feeling...which thinks nothing worth war, is worse." -Mill)
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To: Baraonda

dangerous? in the winter? perhaps during hurricane season, but how is the carribean dangerous?


72 posted on 12/28/2004 8:59:04 PM PST by oceanview
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To: Kitten Festival

"I'm not gonna weep for the inhabitants of the Nicobar islands - there have been some sad stories about Western tourists going there and not coming back. Some areas have always been sealed off."

They're cannibals and so they eat them. That's why they never return.


73 posted on 12/28/2004 9:01:22 PM PST by Baraonda (Demographic is destiny. Don't hire 3rd world illegal aliens nor support businesses that hire them.)
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To: Strategerist

Not to mention volcanos, tropical storms, ice ages etc, that were all more devestation than this quake. The one in Alaska in 1964 for instance was 9.2 just to name one. Not the end of the world. As much as I believe in a creator I do not believe the world is up for destruction, it will die a natural death 4 billion years from now when the sun fails.


74 posted on 12/28/2004 9:01:43 PM PST by calex59
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To: Kitten Festival

"Just my taste, I guess."

No, it's because as the old saaying goes: Birds of a feather flock together.

When in Rome do as the Romans do. Also don't forget to dress, act and be polite to Europeans and they may accept you for your temporary stay, despite not being one of them.


75 posted on 12/28/2004 9:04:09 PM PST by Baraonda (Demographic is destiny. Don't hire 3rd world illegal aliens nor support businesses that hire them.)
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To: Kitten Festival

"I love them all."

Good! I hope you marry one of them and move there.


76 posted on 12/28/2004 9:06:04 PM PST by Baraonda (Demographic is destiny. Don't hire 3rd world illegal aliens nor support businesses that hire them.)
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To: Baraonda

Oh please.

And by the way, Thailand is owned by Thai people, not supercilious, fat, unsmiling eurotrash. I like Thais and pity them for all the unpleasable, unhappy, unsmiling, highly demanding, self-centered, obnoxious, uncultured German package tourists travelling in big groups they must put up with.


77 posted on 12/28/2004 9:06:42 PM PST by Kitten Festival (The Thug of Caracas has got to go.)
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To: Strategerist
It astounds me that people forget or are ignorant of Laurasia and how tectonic events have created the physical world arrangement we occupy now. It seems people desire to deem any event as apocalyptic and not one of a succession of events that shape the Earth.

In the news, fault is tossed around politically while ignoring a fault in the Earth's crust.

78 posted on 12/28/2004 9:07:42 PM PST by BIGLOOK (I once opposed keelhauling but have recently come to my senses.)
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To: NautiNurse

"Once again, we are a very changed world."

Changed world? In what ways?

I haven't changed a bit because of this tragedy.

This is not the first nor will it be the last tragedy.


79 posted on 12/28/2004 9:08:20 PM PST by Baraonda (Demographic is destiny. Don't hire 3rd world illegal aliens nor support businesses that hire them.)
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To: Baraonda

I don't need to be married to someone in order to love them. This is a basic fact that many eurotrash cannot undertand. That is why they are so unpleasant to anyone they don't happen to be married to. No wonder they go Nazi, worry about lebesraum and blow each other up every century or so.


80 posted on 12/28/2004 9:09:11 PM PST by Kitten Festival (The Thug of Caracas has got to go.)
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