Pricey President Murmu,
We, as students with experience on the crime of genocide, are writing to precise our utmost concern that the Indigenous Shompen folks of India’s Nice Nicobar Island will face genocide if the plan to show their island into the “Hong Kong of India” goes forward.
The Shompen folks have lived for a whole bunch if not 1000’s of years in concord with the wealthy pure world of Nice Nicobar Island, largely with out contact with outsiders.
Ought to the federal government of India’s proposal to create a world container transhipment terminal, related port and harbour services, airport, energy plant, defence base, industrial zones, in addition to main city growth, proceed, even in a restricted kind, we imagine it is going to be a loss of life sentence for the Shompen, tantamount to the worldwide crime of genocide.
The cumulative impact of those developments and the proposed demographic shift entailing 650,000 settlers, or an 8,000 per cent enhance in inhabitants, will make sure the loss of life knell of the Shompen. The outcome shall be a collective psychic breakdown, resulting in a devastating decline within the inhabitants.
However, even earlier than then, easy contact between the Shompen – who’ve little to no immunity to infectious outdoors ailments – and people who come from elsewhere, is for certain to lead to a precipitous inhabitants collapse. The mass loss of life of your complete Shompen tribe will ensue. The one approach to keep away from the obliteration of the Shompen is for the mission to be deserted.
We subsequently name upon the federal government of India and all related authorities, to urgently cancel all plans for the Nice Nicobar mega-project.
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Mark Levene, Emeritus Fellow, Parkes Centre for Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, College of Southampton
Professor Raz Segal, Affiliate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Research and Endowed Professor within the Examine of Trendy Genocide, Stockton College
Professor Debórah Dwork, Director, Heart for the Examine of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes In opposition to Humanity, The Graduate Heart, Metropolis College of New York
Dr. Henry Theriault, Founding Co-Editor, Genocide Research Worldwide, and Rapid Previous President, Worldwide Affiliation of Genocide Students
Profesor Adrian Gallagher, Professor of World Safety and Mass Atrocity Prevention, College of Leeds
Professor Elyse Semerdjian, the Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marian Mugar Chair of Armenian Genocide Research on the Strassler Heart for Holocaust and Genocide Research, Clark College
Dr. Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, Government Director, Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention
Professor Taner Akçam, Director of the Armenian Genocide Analysis Program, UCLA
Professor Nandini Sundar, Professor of Sociology, College of Delhi
Professor Thomas Kuehne, Strassler Colin Flug Professor of Holocaust Historical past, Clark College
Professor Dirk Moses, Professor of Worldwide Relations, Metropolis School of New York
Professor Donald Bloxham, Richard Pares Professor of Historical past, College of Edinburgh
Professor Tony Kushner, James Parkes Professor, College of Southampton
Professor Fatma Muge Gocek, Sociology Dept, College of Michigan
Dr. Alex Kay, Affiliate Professor of Warfare Research, Division of Historical past, College of Potsdam
Dr. Alexander A. Dunlap, Institute for World Sustainability, Boston College
Professor Philip Dwyer, Centre for the Examine of Violence, College of Newcastle
Professor Olena Palko, Division of Historical past, College of Basel
Professor Martin Shaw, Emeritus Professor, Worldwide Relations, College of Sussex
Dr. Fikret Adanır, Professor Emeritus of Historical past, College of Sabancı, Istanbul
Professor Daniele Conversi Ikerbasque Basis for Science & Departamento de Historia Contemporánea, College of the Basque Nation
Dr. Rachel Ibreck, Senior Lecturer in Politics and Worldwide Relations, Goldsmiths, College of London
Dr. Omar Shahabudin McDoom, Affiliate Professor of Comparative Politics, London Faculty of Economics
Dr. Christopher Powell, Affiliate Professor, Division of Sociology, Toronto Metropolitan College
Dr. Raul Carstocea, Assistant Professor, Division of Historical past, Maynooth College
Professor Andrew Woolford, Professor of Sociology and Criminology, College of Manitoba
Professor Damien Brief, Faculty of Superior Examine, College of London
Dr. Louise Sensible, Lecturer in Worldwide Safety, College of Sussex
Gheysa Daniele Pereira Moura, Researcher, Heart for Interdisciplinary Research of Amazonian Cultures (NEICAM/UEA)
Professor Cathie Carmichael, Professor Emerita, Faculty of Historical past, College of East Anglia
Dr. Jeff Bachman, Affiliate Professor, American College Faculty of Worldwide Service
Professor Victoria Sanford, Professor of Anthropology, Lehman School, Doctoral College, The Graduate Heart, Metropolis College of New York
Professor Geoffrey Robinson, Emeritus Professor of Historical past, UCLA
Professor Penny Inexperienced FAcSS, Professor of Legislation and Globalisation, Director, Worldwide State Crime Initiative, Queen Mary College of London
Professor Michael Rothberg, Professor of Holocaust Research, UCLA
Professor Emerita Ann Curthoys, Faculty of Historical past, Australian Nationwide College
Dr. Joanne Smith Finley, Reader in Chinese language Research, Newcastle College
Professor Natividad Gutiérrez Chong, Professor of Sociology, Nationwide Autonomous College of Mexico
Dr. Christin Pschichholz, Senior Lecturer, Chair of Army Historical past, College of Potsdam
February 2024
