Posted on 11/24/2018 8:55:26 AM PST by Simon Green
Port Blair (India) (AFP) - The body of American missionary-adventurer John Allen Chau may never be recovered from the lost island where he fell in a volley of arrows fired by a reclusive tribe whose existence is threatened by the modern world, say experts.
The menace to the Sentinelese from Chau's one-man invasion is such that tribal rights specialists say no murder charges will ever be laid and Chau's body will have to stay hidden to protect what is probably the world's last pre-neolithic tribe.
Indian authorities -- who do not dare enforce their rule over North Sentinel island -- have not even tried to send police ashore to question the tribe who have been greeting outsiders with hostility for centuries.
Police sent a boat near North Sentinel for the second time since the killing on Friday.
"Due precautions were taken by the team to ensure that this particularly vulnerable tribal group are not disturbed and distressed during this exercise," said a police statement.
Fears that 21st century diseases as mild as the common cold could kill off the tribe, or that experiencing electricity and the internet would devastate their lifestyle, has left them in a guarded bubble that Chau sought to burst with his "Jesus loves you" message.
The American died last week after making several attempts to reach the Sentinelese to preach Christianity -- knowing it was illegal to go within three miles (five kilometres) of the island.
- Double dilemma -
Pankaj Sekhsaria, a tribal rights expert and author on the Andaman and Nicobar islands, said it would be "a futile exercise" to try to retrieve Chau's body.
"I don't think it is a good idea to go anywhere near (North Sentinel) because it will create conflict with the community there," he told AFP
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Can’t save that body, it has been eaten.....
Too bad, so sad.
Guy was told a bunch of times it was a REALLY, REALLY, bad idea to go.
They are savages missing out on gay marriage, transgender rights and Nancy Pelosi.
They don’t know what they’re missing.
He’s eaten, Jim.
Let the Island be His
Final Resting Place.
.
It’s what He Wanted.
It is stories like these that remind me of the myth of the noble savage.
The article makes it sound like they are afraid of the natives, rather than the SJWs at the UN. I'm pretty sure the Indian Army could secure the place in a couple of hours, if the need arose.
I’m sure he understood the risk. Some are willing to risk all to share the message of Christ’s love.
Just leave it for the fishes.
Very sad, but he knew that he was breaking the law.
That law helps to protect these people from random contact with any diseases we modern men may be carrying.
We are immune to most these viruses, they would be vulnerable.
The more I think of it, I believe this man was setting himself up to be killed. An elaborate, well orchestrated suicide. Perhaps for the purpose of achieving ‘greatness’. No one who really knows is now saying.
There was probably a chance, when he was still in piles of poop.
...but then it rained.
Just what I’ve been telling others. His body is a memorial of the utter depravity of the island’s inhabitants. I understand that was not your point, but one thing that is true is that the North Sentinelese need Jesus Christ.
It’s not lost. We know right where it is.
Idiot reporters.
L
Whatever :)
The message of Christ’s love.
With no way of them understanding a single ####ing word he said.
No, he was just a dumb self righteous ####.
And now he’s a dead one :)
How do we share without risk? See Jim Elliot. It is the long game.
These are the people celebrated by made-up stuff like Indigenous Peoples Day. The Left attempting to rewrite history about the “noble savage.”
Probably by crabs.
The natives feared even his body, and dragged his body into the sea while using a rope to keep their distance.
So we stand aside and let them die of simple infections, let them be crippled by easily treatable injuries, let the children grow up malnourished, etc.
Talk about a civilization that has totally lost confidence in itself. Yes, native cultures were too often treated with indifference or hostility in the past. Yes, we should treat them with dignity and respect now. No, we shouldn't infect them with welfare state dependency. But to deprive people of painless dentistry, clean drinking water, and chocolate milkshakes is simply cruel.
Leaving the tribe isolated is, in fact, a cruel and brutal human experiment.
Pankaj Sekhsaria, a tribal rights expert and author on the Andaman and Nicobar islands, said it would be “a futile exercise” to try to retrieve Chau’s body. ..................................... LOL, have one native come out on the beach to trade gold nuggets or a large diamond for a knife and see how long it will take for the Island to be invaded.
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