UN American instagrammer killed by uncontacted tribe in Andaman Islands - becomes pincushion for Stone Age arrows

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-46286215

An American man has been killed by an endangered tribe in India's Andaman and Nicobar islands.

Fishermen who took the man to North Sentinel island say tribespeople shot him with arrows and left his body on the beach.

He has been identified as John Allen Chau, a 27 year old from Alabama.

Contact with the endangered Andaman tribes living in isolation from the world is illegal because of the risks to them from outside disease.

Estimates say the Sentinelese, who are totally cut off from civilisation, number only between 50 and 150.

Local media have reported that Chau may have wanted to meet the tribe to preach Christianity to them.

But on social media the young man presented himself as a keen traveller and adventurer.

"Police said Chau had previously visited North Sentinel island about four or five times with the help of local fishermen," journalist Subir Bhaumik, who has been covering the islands for years, told BBC Hindi.

"The number of people belonging to the Sentinelese tribe is so low, they don't even understand how to use money. It's in fact illegal to have any sort of contact with them."

In 2017, the Indian government also said taking photographs or making videos of the aboriginal Andaman tribes would be punishable with imprisonment of up to three years.

The AFP news agency quoted a source as saying that Chau had tried and failed to reach the island on 14 November. But then he tried again two days later.

"He was attacked by arrows but he continued walking.

"The fishermen saw the tribals tying a rope around his neck and dragging his body. They were scared and fled," the report added.

Chau's body was spotted on 20 November. According to the Hindustan Times, his remains have yet to be recovered.

"It's a difficult case for the police," says Mr Bhaumik. "You can't even arrest the Sentinelese."

getting BTFO by Pajeet an-prims is pretty embarrassing way to go

 

[Konover]

Name ONE (1) good reason why we should not invade and impose civilization on these savages.

They’re the best border control on earth

 

[millais]

Name ONE (1) good reason why we should not invade and impose civilization on these savages.

They are putting the fear of God into instagrammers

 

[sasazuka]

How was he planning on preaching a very abstract concept to them when nobody except the Sentinelese themselves knows their language?

Was he just going to point to a picture of the long-haired hippy Italian renaissance painting Jesus Christ and think they were going to bow down to the man in the painting the same way the Ewoks worshipped C3PO?

 

[dunbrine47]

Hopefully that smartphone battery died out before the natives got an unfortunate tech boost.

 

[Sissy Galvez]

This is a tribe that in the past has shot at helicopters with bows an arrows, how in any way did he think this would end well?

The number of likes would have been off the chart, though!

 

[raspberry mocha]

Are the Darwin Awards still going on? This is definitely a front runner.

 

[RG 448]

Name ONE (1) good reason why we should not invade and impose civilization on these savages.

No nation on earth has had a leader capable of doing so with 100% pure and selfless intentions since the late George W. Bush.

 

[millais]

If my first encounter with civilization came via contact with Pajeets and Angloids, I would be pretty wary of civilization too.

 

[Twinkie]

Hapa Psychosis is absolutely real and absolutely preventable.

F

 

[Sho'nuff]

At least he died doing what he loved.

 

[Dick Pooman]

They all survived that massive tsunami back in 2004 and they haven't even discovered fire yet. You don't just roll up on people like this.

 

[frozenrunner]

Name ONE (1) good reason why we should not invade and impose civilization on these savages.

It's.

Dey.

Cultcha.

 

[Clem Fandango]

Name ONE (1) good reason why we should not invade and impose civilization on these savages.

They're currently performing a valuable service by the sound of it

 

[c-no]

The story of North Sentinel is pretty interesting.

Also, that guy is a dumbfuck.

The fact he kept going despite there being arrows the first time means this man would be a recipient for a Darwin Award and finally becoming a pin-cushion secures that spot. Any person thinking they can make direct contact with a group known to be full on hostile to anything not of their group may as well accept a barrage of arrows.

 

[XYZpdq]

I wonder how many missionaries are really crazy and are trying to cruise control for martyr status?

 

[Deep Blue]

Name ONE (1) good reason why we should not invade and impose civilization on these savages.

They don't have oil.

 

[TheCapybara]

What did this guy honestly expect to happen though? He'd show them his cellphone and they would revere him as a god? We're not living in a comedy skit here. These people are notoriously hostile. They don't like modern people rolling up on them, pretty understandably tbh, modern people kind of being assholes as a general rule, obviously they were going to feather him with arrows if he just wandered into their territory.

 

[FierceBrosnan]

There were only two outcomes for this story, get murdered by naked cave people or rot in Pajeet prison. I feel like this was the most humane way to go.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Why does he look like he’s morphing into Donald Glover in that last picture?

That's how we got the original

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

I'd love to see someone fly a drone over the island and watch it get shot down with spears: