{"id":61718,"date":"2024-02-07T14:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/feb\/07\/india-port-airport-power-plant-military-project-great-nicobar-island-death-sentence-shompen-indigenous-people-warning"},"modified":"2024-02-07T14:00:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T05:00:05","slug":"indias-plan-for-untouched-nicobar-isles-will-be-death-sentence-for-isolated-tribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61718","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s plan for untouched Nicobar isles will be \u2018death sentence\u2019 for isolated tribe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: $9bn port, airport and military base on Great Nicobar Island will cause \u2018genocide\u2019 of isolated Shompen, academics warn<\/p>\n<p>Academics from around the world have urged India to cancel a <a href=\"https:\/\/india.mongabay.com\/2022\/10\/maps-environmental-path-cleared-for-great-nicobar-mega-project\/\">huge construction project<\/a> on Great Nicobar Island, warning it would be \u201ca death sentence\u201d for the Shompen hunter-gatherer people who live there.<\/p>\n<p>The $9bn (\u00a37bn) port project, planned to transform the Indian Ocean island of 8,000 inhabitants into what has been called the \u201cHong Kong of India\u201d, includes the construction of an <a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1894045\">international shipping terminal<\/a>, airport, power plant, military base and industrial park. It will also develop tourism.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/feb\/07\/india-port-airport-power-plant-military-project-great-nicobar-island-death-sentence-shompen-indigenous-people-warning\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: $9bn port, airport and military base on Great Nicobar Island will cause \u2018genocide\u2019 of isolated Shompen, academics warnAcademics from around the world have urged India to cancel a huge construction project on Great Nicobar Island, warning it &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,456,1216,821,65,59,53,62,503,1980,61,485,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-conservation","category-conservation-and-indigenous-people","category-deforestation","category-environment","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-india","category-indigenous-peoples","category-shipping-industry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-trees-and-forests","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61719,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61718\/revisions\/61719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}