NEW DELHI: An international Indigenous tribal rights organization has reported that India’s ambitious ‘New Hong Kong project’, valued at Rs 75000 crore, on Great Nicobar Island could potentially threaten the existence of one of the oldest and most isolated tribes.
The report, titled “Crushed: How India Plans to Sacrifice One of the World’s Most Isolated Tribes to Create ‘the New Hong Kong’,” by Survival International, indicates that this mega-development project may lead to the destruction of the uncontacted Shompens.
Survival International (SI) is a London-based charity that advocates for the collective rights of Indigenous, tribal, and uncontacted peoples.
The Great Nicobar project, often referred to as ‘the new Hong Kong’, includes plans to construct a mega-port, a defence base, a power station, and a new city to accommodate 650,000 residents. This project is expected to attract around one million tourists and other visitors to the small island each year.
The report warns that uncontacted Shompen people, who live only on Great Nicobar Island in the Indian Ocean, will not survive if the Great Nicobar Development Project goes ahead.
Thirty-nine leading genocide scholars wrote to the Indian government in February 2024, warning that the project would wipe out the Shompen if it went ahead.
Hong Kong is a peninsula of China, not a fucking island hundreds of sea miles away from any city
I think its refering to hong kong island and not kowloon and the new territories that make up most of modern hong kong
But the proyect to me its more like building a new singapore as in an important island port city in the middle of the really important and popular maritine trade route of the strait of malacca
🙄 The Victoria Harbour is 1km wide.
Singapore is the Hong Kong of Malaysia, (again 1km distance of natural harbour from a landmass with tens millions people)
Nicobar is not connected to any population centre. It might be a nice stop over to switch containers and avoid tariffs and shit like that, like the stuff they been making in open ocean with petrol I think it was