Experts on Indigenous Peoples have warned that India’s controversial Great Nicobar Development Project must be scrapped. Crucially, their open letter demands that the Indian government alter course before they cause the extinction of the Shompen.
Moreover, the letter follows a similar recent warning from 39 international genocide scholars. Importantly, they said that if the project goes ahead, Great Nicobar’s Shompen People, who are mostly uncontacted, would be completely wiped out.
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