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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They buried the body - leave it
“I think he died a martyr.”
He died a lawbreaking idiot who very well could kill all those people by exposing them to disease to which these savages have no natural immunity.
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Would he have been safer in East St. Louis, or Baltimore?
Jesus gave the ground rules for evangelizing:
1. Do not go from house to house. Pick a central location.
2. If your message is not accepted, leave.
Betting he’s condemned and the savages are canonized.
“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??”
Good observation. A mans home is his castle. Protect at all costs.
Those are the savages. They are carrying bows.
Interesting Synopsis.
Seals, dead of night , piece of cake
I’m sure. He died a fool
They killed him and buried him on the beach away from them because every time they interact with outsiders they get sick and die.
Leave them alone.
conversion?
Don’t you mean forced indoctrination?
Bingo.
Yes. This story reminded me of Jim Elliot.
Leave the dead Illegal Alien there.
Offer the tribesman jobs as American Border Patrol Agents.
It’s a stupid waste of a life, for sure.
The bows would not concern me. It is the arrows that those bows shoot that make me nervous. An arrow through the gut has been known to ruin one’s day.
Read a book. Preferably a good history book.
Your accusation is, with few exceptions, nonsense.
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