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Posted on 11/23/2018 7:32:36 AM PST by ETL
John Allen Chau was killed last week by North Sentinel islanders who apparently shot him with arrows and then buried his body on the beach, police say.
But even officials don't travel to North Sentinel, where people live as their ancestors did thousands of years ago, and where outsiders are seen with suspicion and attacked.
"It's a difficult proposition," said Dependera Pathak, director-general of police on India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands, where North Sentinel is located.
"We have to see what is possible, taking utmost care of the sensitivity of the group and the legal requirements." ..."
Police are consulting anthropologists, tribal welfare experts and scholars to figure out a way to recover the body, he said.
While visits to the island are heavily restricted, Chau paid fishermen last week to take him near North Sentinel, using a kayak to paddle to shore and bringing gifts including a football and fish. ..."
he wrote about his visit and left his notes with the fishermen. He returned to North Sentinel the next day, Nov. 16.
What happened then isn't known, but on the morning of the following day, the fishermen watched from the boat as tribesmen dragged Chau's body along the beach and buried his remains. ..."
Chau was apparently shot and killed by arrows, but the cause of death can't be confirmed until his body is recovered, Pathak said. ..."
"He didn't go there for just adventure. I have no question it was to bring the gospel of Jesus to them," Staver said.
Staver said Chau's last notes to his family on Nov. 16 told them that they might think he was crazy but that he felt it was worth it and asked that they not be angry if he was killed.
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I think he died a martyr. He may eventually prove to be the first step in presenting the Gospel to them.
Leave the idiot. It’s not worth endangering anyone else.
Thes guys are really wild!
I don’t think it’s much of an excuse for people to allow savages to act like savages because... well, they’re savages.
The devil must want to keep them, since he orders them to kill outsiders. (Similar to Korea and Japan at one time.)
Now due to his death, many more people will know about these islands, and probably this will eventually result in their conversion.
He died for his love for them. That’s not a bad thing. We in the West are because others long ago were willing to die for our sake to bring us out of darkness.
Damn...
Looks like my old North Philly neighborhood on a Friday night...
It appears that even the most basic cultures take a dim view of undocumented, uninvited, illegal immigrants.
And I thought only the United States was racist??
They'll learn about Islam before Christianity. Muslim missionaries will arrive with Kalashnikovs.
History is replete with “idiots” like this.
Some of them brought the gospel to your ancestors, and mine, who were steeped in savagery, murder, ignorance and despair.
The end of all will reveal who the fools really are, I suppose.
“John Allen Chau, 26, had travelled to North Sentinel Island hoping to make contact with the indigenous Sentinelese tribe and convert them.
But he was apparently shot with arrows after he set foot on the remote Indian Ocean island, and buried on the beach.
Mr Chau was fully aware of the risks - islanders armed with bows and arrows and spears try to kill anyone who approaches them - and, in his final hours, he acknowledged that he may not make it off the island alive.
Before he set off for the fateful encounter, Mr Chau wrote “God, I don’t want to die” in his journal, according to his mum, who has refused to believe reports of his violent death.”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/john-chaus-chilling-last-journal-13627830
I imagine riot shields would be useful for recovering the body there.
The tribesman were simply enforcing their rules against Illegal Immigration.
If they know exactly where it is, they should be able to send in a team in the wee hours during an optimal tide to quickly dig it out , backfill, and back to the boat.
Very selfish behavior on his part, IMHO
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