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

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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."
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getting BTFO by Pajeet an-prims is pretty embarrassing way to go
 
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Oh well this is fucked. Apparently sometime back in August the Indian government made tourism around those parts legal. :stress:
https://www.thisisinsider.com/sentinelese-tribe-what-we-know-killed-american-missionary-2018-11
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India's current government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, revoked some rules that protected the island. In August, it removed requirements to obtain a Restricted Area Permitfor 29 islands in Andaman Islands, including North Sentinel Island.

Fucking morons.
 
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millais said:
The greatest tragedy will be if this dead guy's corpse brought in some deadly pathogens that the island tribals have no immunity against, and he ends up posthumously genociding them.
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Tbf, why else would the government want to unrestrict “tourism”, given the craven nature of the tribe. Kill ‘em all off, and they get the land. Who can imagine what kind of weird shit they have there, fauna, artifacts et al.
 
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Selfish bastard deserved to die. There’s a reason for a no-contact law and it’s to protect the tribe. These are the rarest humans on the planet and this dumb egotist wanted to exploit them for his own selfish curiosity and e-fame - undoing thousands of years of isolation.

Anthropologists would kill to study this tribe but know any interaction will destroy what makes them so special and would also probably wipe them out within months.
 
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millais said:
The greatest tragedy will be if this dead guy's corpse brought in some deadly pathogens that the island tribals have no immunity against, and he ends up posthumously genociding them.
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It would be equally interesting if there's some deadly pathogen on the island to which the islanders are immune but to which outsiders are naive.
 
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How was he planning on preaching a very abstract concept to them when nobody except the Sentinelese themselves knows their language?
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The same way Everett tried to convert the Piraha tribe. He managed to learn their language from scratch by repeating words and making gestures. Here's his lecture where he goes over this topic. The unintended result was that the Pirahas laughed at Everett's Jesus stories and he became an atheist.

The main difference in this situation is that the Pirahas are a bunch of peaceful hippies, and the Sentinelese, well, aren't.
 
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island#Modern_period
 
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Oh well this is fucked. Apparently sometime back in August the Indian government made tourism around those parts legal. :stress:
https://www.thisisinsider.com/sentinelese-tribe-what-we-know-killed-american-missionary-2018-11
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India's current government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, revoked some rules that protected the island. In August, it removed requirements to obtain a Restricted Area Permitfor 29 islands in Andaman Islands, including North Sentinel Island.

Fucking morons.
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Perhaps India is getting tired of all the Eat Pray Love types visiting and saw an opportunity for the problem to resolve itself.

These missionary types just think that Jesus will find a way into people's hearts, and protect them from getting killed venturing into hostile places. When I went to church as a kid, we heard many stories of missionaries wandering into jungles (or gangs or whatever) and getting into situations that could have easily killed them but didn't thanks to the grace of God. This story will be quickly forgotten, though there will be lots of thoughts and prayers for the sentinelese.
 
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If there's only a hundred or two hundred of them, and they kill anyone who washes up on the island ... Well, I'm sorry to say it, but Darwin is going to solve the problem much faster than Jesus will. Another few generations, and they'll be too inbred to function. Sooner or later they'll stop shooting arrows at helicopters (or hoverships or giant eagles or whatever we have by that time), and when a couple of scientists with body armor and Navy SEAL escorts land to investigate what's going on, they'll find a load of modern-day Habsburgs too sick to even kill anyone anymore.
 
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