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1994 Rubondo Island (9/14): Xylophone
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... as mentioned on the previous slide, arresting poachers seemed to be part of daily life on this tiny Victory Lake island. But for me, it was everything else than normal life.
The seized boats in the background, the illegally caught fish in the foreground, the arrested poachers lined up at the rangers command. I do not want to bother you with details about the treatment of the arrested men, but it definitely didn't rank high in my western or northern ethical standards. In my journal, I described it as playing "human xylophone" ... imagine the row of bended human backs being the blocks of a that instrument ... .
It is difficult to imagine how much this scene contrasted to the otherwise so beautiful island. Only two years later, a (very basic and very well integrated) tourist camp opened on that Island. A Swiss Sunday newspaper wrote: "The last paradise on earth" ... at least that day it was far from being paradise for these men ...
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(pictures are scanned from slides and not manipulated - on purpose (read why), sorry, for the dark tones)
1994 Rubondo Island (9/14): Xylophone
... continued from previous slide:
... as mentioned on the previous slide, arresting poachers seemed to be part of daily life on this tiny Victory Lake island. But for me, it was everything else than normal life.
The seized boats in the background, the illegally caught fish in the foreground, the arrested poachers lined up at the rangers command. I do not want to bother you with details about the treatment of the arrested men, but it definitely didn't rank high in my western or northern ethical standards. In my journal, I described it as playing "human xylophone" ... imagine the row of bended human backs being the blocks of a that instrument ... .
It is difficult to imagine how much this scene contrasted to the otherwise so beautiful island. Only two years later, a (very basic and very well integrated) tourist camp opened on that Island. A Swiss Sunday newspaper wrote: "The last paradise on earth" ... at least that day it was far from being paradise for these men ...
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(pictures are scanned from slides and not manipulated - on purpose (read why), sorry, for the dark tones)