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21-11-2018, 14:22
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Island Visitor Killed by World's Most Isolated Tribe
A 27 year old American bonehead apparently decided to visit the restricted island of North Sentinel in the Andamans, an island territory of India that is actually closer to Myanmar and Thailand. Reportedly he bribed some fishermen to illegally drop him off and then was attacked by bows and arrows then buried in the sand.
The Sentinelese are one of the last isolated tribes of the world and their island is off limits. They are known to be hostile to the outside world, and the outside world has diseases that are no doubt likewise hostile to their dwindling numbers. They are thought to be of a pre-Neolithic culture that is about 55,000 years old.
Reports have it that this nut job, John Chau, saw himself as a modern day Christian missionary. (thankfully, he was in a canoe and not a cruising sailboat)
Among his last words:
"I have been so nice to them, why are they so angry and aggressive?"
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-46286215
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21-11-2018, 14:36
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Re: Island Visitor Killed by World's Most Isolated Tribe
I guess the bible wasn't as protective as he thought. Wack job.
New York Times article
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/w...120181121&te=1
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21-11-2018, 14:40
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Re: Island Visitor Killed by World's Most Isolated Tribe
Hopefully he didn't pass on any disease.
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21-11-2018, 14:58
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Re: Island Visitor Killed by World's Most Isolated Tribe
To quote Edith Bunker from the old TV show "All in the Family",
"At least he didn't die of anything serious".
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21-11-2018, 15:03
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Re: Island Visitor Killed by World's Most Isolated Tribe
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Hopefully he didn't pass on any disease.
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Agreed! I have heard recent research proving that stupidity is highly contagious
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21-11-2018, 15:06
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Re: Island Visitor Killed by World's Most Isolated Tribe
He apparently brought gifts, and surely some reporter's cracking a joke, but I read he brought fish and a football! Anybody else read that?
Cheers.
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21-11-2018, 15:31
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Re: Island Visitor Killed by World's Most Isolated Tribe
Someone must have warned them about missionaries.
The island is quite clear on Google earth. Looks like the village on a double bay to the NE of the island.
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21-11-2018, 15:35
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Re: Island Visitor Killed by World's Most Isolated Tribe
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Originally Posted by GRIT
He apparently brought gifts, and surely some reporter's cracking a joke, but I read he brought fish and a football! Anybody else read that?
Cheers.
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I read fishing line, scissors, and soccer ball or football. (Hard to tell if "football" means round or pointy, given the international flavor here)
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21-11-2018, 17:15
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Re: Island Visitor Killed by World's Most Isolated Tribe
Presumably, if you arrive in the Andermans by yacht, the officials in Port Blair (?) will give you a hand-out with prohibited areas marked in red. But it's not difficult to imagine a yacht arriving late from the west (even if it's not the conventional direction) and anchoring off North Sentinel and then proceeding to Port Blair in the morning. I know most of us would consider that quite normal when arriving at an island chain/group.
So perhaps that's the lesson to learn for the likes of us. It's not just about whether a coastguard vessel might approach you and move you on - there are other issues and risks involved in casually stopping for a rest before official arrival..
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21-11-2018, 17:23
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Re: Island Visitor Killed by World's Most Isolated Tribe
Apparently, he went back 3 times before being killed. The first day he came back with arrow wounds. The second day they destroyed his canoe and he has to swim back. It wasn't until he showed up the third day that he met his end.
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21-11-2018, 17:35
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Re: Island Visitor Killed by World's Most Isolated Tribe
I can not even summon up sympathy for him. Why can not "missionaries" understand that some folks just do not want to be converted, saved, or made better by outside intervention, and are willing to defend their position with deadly force?
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21-11-2018, 17:58
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Re: Island Visitor Killed by World's Most Isolated Tribe
I can just see one of the tribe elders telling the rest of his people: "See, I told you, we need that wall around the island".
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21-11-2018, 18:49
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Re: Island Visitor Killed by World's Most Isolated Tribe
Think of it as Evolution in Action.
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21-11-2018, 19:35
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Re: Island Visitor Killed by World's Most Isolated Tribe
Darwinism 1 Creationism 0
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21-11-2018, 21:07
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Re: Island Visitor Killed by World's Most Isolated Tribe
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Originally Posted by chris in SG
Presumably, if you arrive in the Andermans by yacht, the officials in Port Blair (?) will give you a hand-out with prohibited areas marked in red. But it's not difficult to imagine a yacht arriving late from the west (even if it's not the conventional direction) and anchoring off North Sentinel and then proceeding to Port Blair in the morning. I know most of us would consider that quite normal when arriving at an island chain/group.
So perhaps that's the lesson to learn for the likes of us. It's not just about whether a coastguard vessel might approach you and move you on - there are other issues and risks involved in casually stopping for a rest before official arrival..
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Well it would take about 3 mins on a slow Internet connection to get prearrival requirements on Noonsite. On the front page of the India section:
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The Andaman Islands are an archipelago of some 200 islands lying west of Thailand in the Andaman Sea. Yachts are now welcome to stop here (with an Indian visa and Andamans as the destination) and the Restricted Area Permit for these islands was abolished in September 2018.
North Sentinel Island in Eastern India, which lies to the west of the southern part of South Andaman Island, has a 3 mile exclusion zone around it. The Sentinelese people who live on this small island actively and violently reject contact and are considered the most isolated people in the world.
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