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.
different culture. Different lands.
Go at your own risk.
Although given their birthrates, I doubt they love even the people they are married to, either.
You're being very kind to your own people. That's understandable.
'64 was a HARPS gone wrong.
You keep repeating yourself and haven't addressed the issues that I've raised. Your anti- Christian European hatred is also blatantly showing. You need some PC deprogramming.
If I had to choose between Asians and Mooselimbs, I'd pick Asians. They also had ancient civilizations, they didn't stay stuck in the Dark Ages, and they are in general cool people. As far as cannibals go, well, you are who you eat.
I'd no idea so many westerners visited that part of the world...
This is happening in the Northern Hemisphere primarily.
I've had a rather provincial view of the southern hemisphere til now.
Look at this.....this is just STUNNING:
Here is an interesting selection of satellite photos of the tsunami as it hits Sri Lanka. Credit: Digital Globe.
Sea pulled outward: http://www.digitalglobe.com/images/qb/srilanka_kalutara_beach2_dec26_2004_dg.jpg
Tsumami hits....look at this!!!!:http://www.digitalglobe.com/images/qb/srilanka_kalutara_flood_dec26_2004_dg.jpg
Just incredible...and very close up shots of what happened...look at the swirling!
Whoah! I've followed this whole thread and been quite delighted at the mix of serious, drastic, jovial, cutting, etc. and didn't see that coming. If it's about America, I am the first one standing in the "this is how it is and these are the rules of our society if you want in" line but, truth stands above America, for she can err. Goodness is good. America has always been about improvement when corrected. That's how we got here! KF and everyone on this thread, in speaking positively about SEAsia, has spoken about those things to which all freedom loving people strive. To classify according to the sins of the fathers is none such thing as has any patriot ever approved; and I am tired of talking to you.
Unless I'm mistaken, the Sentinelese are the last completely isolated tribe in the world. When they say "all efforts at initiating contact have proved unsuccessful" they mean it. We don't even know what they call themselves. I guess we'll never know now..
The tsunami waves moved east and west from the earthquake, and Bangladesh was almost directly to the north so it was spared.
Darwin rules
I like tribes. But I'm more interested in Germanic and Gothic ones.
pre 3cad?
This earthquate occurred closer to a much larger, by several orders of magnitude, and potentially more dangerous "super" volcano TOBA. The good news is, it's been quiet for the last 75,000 years.
FGS
Anoter quake with magitude 6.2 at Nicobar Islands http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/ussqal.htm 2 hours ago, and many more earlier http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html
"Always remember that one man's meat is another man's poi, son."
FGS
...'64 was a HARPS gone wrong......
Coast-to-coast said the Great Sumatran quake was 28 minutes away from being exactly one year from the BAMM, Iran earthquake and implying that they both were HAARP. (Now where's my tinfoil at?)
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