Posted on 11/21/2018 5:21:10 PM PST by waterhill
An American man has been killed by an endangered tribe in India's Andaman and Nicobar islands. Fishermen who took the man to North Sentinel island say tribespeople shot him with arrows and left his body on the beach. He has been identified as John Allen Chau, a 27 year old from Alabama. Contact with the endangered Andaman tribes living in isolation from the world is illegal because of the risks to them from outside disease. Estimates say the Sentinelese, who are totally cut off from civilisation, number only between 50 and 150.
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Foolish actions can get you killed. Many people never learn this, obvious though it seems.
TRESSPASSERS WILL BE SHOT
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When your family tree has no branches....
Foolish? He was a missionary. He doesn’t walk to the beat of this world.
Not any more.
Balls of steel don’t protect you from stone-tipped arrows.
What a waste. The family must be freaking out. RIP.
I would like to check out their bows and broadheads and the way they make them.
What was his official position?
Did he stay on top day-to-day?
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Good looking young man.
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I always wonder if any tribal member has ever tried to leave the island.
They said members of the tribe were shooting arrows at the helicopter. I wonder what they think about the helicopters? Gods or something?
He broke Indian law, and those islands belong to India. Plenty of other places he could be a missionary.
I read that one wanted to leave. The Indian gov helped him, he went to the mainland of India, went to school, stayed for quite a few years. After some time, he decided he wanted to live the old way, and went back.
The Indian gov sends doctors to the islands once or twice a year.
From the article:
Local media have reported that Chau may have wanted to meet the tribe to preach Christianity to them.
But on social media the young man presented himself as a keen traveller and adventurer.
“Police said Chau had previously visited North Sentinel island about four or five times with the help of local fishermen,” journalist Subir Bhaumik, who has been covering the islands for years, told BBC Hindi.
The AFP news agency quoted a source as saying that Chau had tried and failed to reach the island on 14 November. But then he tried again two days later.
“He was attacked by arrows but he continued walking.
“The fishermen saw the tribals tying a rope around his neck and dragging his body. They were scared and fled,” the report added.
Chau’s body was spotted on 20 November. According to the Hindustan Times, his remains have yet to be recovered.
“It’s a difficult case for the police,” says Mr Bhaumik. “You can’t even arrest the Sentinelese.”
"And the tribal people that live there have a long-standing policy – if you set foot on our island, we will kill the out of you, slit your throat, dump your corpse on the beach, and then disappear into the jungle. We don't negotiate. We don't make friends. We don't make treaties. We defend our island to the death."
Maybe its just me - and my desire to avoid being savagely killed by tribesmen out of a pulp novel - but this is one place I've never wanted to visit.
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