The Independent - London, June 13th, 1997
Sir: It is regrettable for tribal peoples that your report "The return of the cannibals" (9, 10 June) echoes an attitude better left to the unashamed cultural prejudice of the Victorian era. Its publication in a quality newspaper potentially undermines years of work by tribes and their supporters to persuade the world that tribals are no more "savage" or "primitive" than the rest of us, and that our unhappiness with their cultural practices should no longer be an excuse for the theft of their land and resources.
No country in the world treats its tribal peoples worse than Indonesia, whose arm...
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