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Herero and Nama people – UPSC Prelims

Herero and Nama tribes reside in Namibia. Between 1904 and 1908, German colonial settlers killed tens of thousands of men, women and children from the Herero and Nama tribes after they rebelled against colonial rule in what was then called German South West Africa. Why in News? Germany for the first time has recognized that it committed …

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Yanomami Tribe – UPSC Prelims

Yanomami Tribe:  They live in the rainforests and mountains of northern Brazil and southern Venezuela. According to Survival International, they are the largest relatively isolated tribe in South America. They practice hunting and slash-and-burn agriculture and speak the Xirianá language. Why in News? Yanomami Tribe has asked the Indian Government to stop buying Blood  gold which …

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Khadi Oaxaca – UPSC Prelims

News: In his Mann ki Baat address, the Prime minister has made a reference to Mexico’s Khadi Oaxaca and told how khadi reached Mexico after a local resident became influenced by a film on Mahatma Gandhi. Facts: Khadi Oaxaca: It is a farm-to-garment collective which comprises around 400 families, which live and work on traditional farms and homesteads …

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Rohingyas

Rohingya: Rohingya is ethnic minority group, largely comprising Muslims living primarily in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state. They practice a Sufi-inflected variation of Sunni Islam. They differ from Myanmar’s dominant Buddhist groups religiously, ethnically and linguistically. They speak Bengali dialect, as opposed to commonly spoken Burmese language in Myanmar. Myanmar considers Rohingya’s as illegal Bengali immigrants, despite …

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