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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Life is precious. Having it stolen from you by stone age savages accomplished nothing.
Spot-on.
“...Either way, they’re grossly inbred, and mired in illiterate, lawless savagery. ...How about this — everyone just leave them the **** alone?...”
Exactly.
It’s a dumb-ass way to die.
They didn’t want him there. He chose to go in spite of that.
Boom. Foregone conclusion.
I think someone mentioned this earlier.
Think about the fact that these people have existed in this way for thousands of years, add to that they are as inbred as you can get. Given that their IQ is about as low as you can get.
These people are beyond any type of reasoning as we know it and we cannot apply modern civilization standards to them, they are incapable of ever understanding the concept of murder or anything else. Certainly not religion or the concept of God, they just can’t.
If that guy thought he was going to go there and introduce Christianity he wasn’t thinking. He gave his life for nothing, all you can say is that they at least buried him. On another island or situation they might have eaten him.
If there had been anything on that island that was worth anything, their ancestors would have been the end of the line.
True that.
When someone doesn’t want you visiting... and lets you KNOW as much the first time... you go visit someone ELSE.
Watch the movie "End of the Spear" or read "Through Gates of Splendor" and get back to me .
Or Google "Mincaye Auca".
I’ll pass. We just believe differently. Thanks anyway, though.
So you're saying that you've removed it from your Lifetime Bucket List, and moved it to your ****bucket List?
You betcha!
The authorities can’t even get the guys body back!
Gather all the data available before making your final decision...
As I said, we just see it differently. Thank you, though.
God & Jesus have known all along about this remote island & the remote tribe that inhabits it.
I am pretty sure this tribe may have been there since BEFORE Jesus.
God may have drawn this ‘missionary’ to go there.
However, God also knows he is there.
He died doing what he wished to do.
Let him rest there.
Leave those tribesmen alone.
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