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India's historic victory for a tribe that is seen to recognize, for the first time, the right to use the ancestral land despite being in a reserve established to protect the tigers.

In 1974 the government evicted many members of local tribes from the hills of Biligirirangan Soligo, in Karnataka state, with the intent to protect the natural environment of the place.

Survival International has lodged a formal complaint information to various authorities for the statements "offensive and ridiculous" published by newspapers around the world about the disappearance of a German tourist was "eaten by cannibals."

In a letter addressed, among others, the supervisor of the British Press Complaints Commission and the Comisión de Quejas y de la Federation of Associations ethics Periodistas de España, Survival says that newspapers have described the natives of the South Pacific as "cannibals" are responsible for promoting "false and offensive the idea that tribal peoples are primitive and wild."

According to some secret cable published in the newspaper "The Hindu", American diplomats consider the Indian government "unwilling and unable" to "put an end to exploitation and victimization" of the 84 million indigenous people living in the country.

According to the cable, the U.S. government fears that this neglect to make the game Naxalites, Maoist extremists authors of various armed insurgencies in India.