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A sad day for history
« on: February 06, 2010, 04:51:28 pm »
This is to me such a sad story.  I can't imagine a whole "race" of people being extinct.  Can you imagine being the last of your kind left on earth? 


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/04/ancient-language-extinct-speaker-dies

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"The Great Andamanese were first massacred, then all but wiped out by paternalistic policies which left them ravaged by epidemics of disease, and robbed of their land and independence," said Survival International's director, Stephen Corry. "With the death of Boa Sr and the extinction of the Bo language, a unique part of human society is now just a memory. Boa's loss is a bleak reminder that we must not allow this to happen to the other tribes of the Andaman Islands."

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