NGO in 2010, involves tourists using an illegal road to enter the reserve of the Jarawa tribe. Tour companies and cab drivers Â'attractÂ' the Jarawa with biscuits and sweets, The Guardian and The Observer had said in their report pulished in January last year. The video showed a group of Jarawa women being ordered to dance for tourists by a policeman, who had reportedly accepted a £200 bribe to take them into the reserve. One tourist had previously described a similar trip to the newspapers. "The journey through tribal reserve was like a safari ride as we were going amidst dense tropical rainforest and looking for wild animals, Jarawa tribals, to be specific", he said. Survival has called for tourists to boycott the road. Working with a local organization, SEARCH, Survival has distributed leaflets to tourists arriving at the IslandsÂ' airport warning of the dangers of using the road. Survival's Director Stephen Corry said, "This story reeks of colonialism and the disgusting and degrading Â'human zoosÂ' of the past." "Quite clearly, some peopleÂ's attitudes towards tribal people havenÂ't moved on a jot. The Jarawa are not circus ponies bound to dance at anyoneÂ's bidding," Cory said. The lone Member of Parliament from the Islands, Bishnu Pada Ray told PTI that the video tapes were very old and government should take immediate action against this. He said that ATR road should not be shut down because the ATR is the life line of Middle and North Andamans people. He also said in the present scenario, the Jarawas wanted to come into mainstream and the government needed to "welcome and support the Jarawa community to join the mainstream on humanitarian ground." Renowned environmentalist of Andaman, Samir Achariya, however, supported the Shekhar Singh Commission recommendation on closure of the ATR road for survival of primitive Jarawa tribe.
