North Sentinel Island is about 20 sq miles and the Sentinelese are estimated to number about 100 people. It is home to the Sentinelese, an indigenous people in voluntary isolation who have rejected, often violently, any contact with the outside world. “He loved God, life, helping those in need and had nothing but love for the Sentinelese people,” the family said. The North Sentinel island made headlines in 2006 ... urging the administration of the Andaman Islands to adhere to this by putting a stop to poaching around the island which led to the deaths … Police say man was visiting North Sentinel Island, whose inhabitants are known to attack outsidersMembers of an isolated Indian tribe armed with bows and arrows have killed an American who encroached on their remote island, police said.John Allen Chau, 26, is believed to have paid fishermen to ferry him to North Sentinel Island, home to a 30,000-year-old tribe known to aggressively repel outsiders.“The fishermen in the dinghies tried to warn him it’s a risky thing,” said Denis Giles, an activist for the rights of tribal groups and a journalist on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the Indian territory where the incident took place.He said Chau, who some Christian groups have claimed was a missionary, had been trying to find ways to reach North Sentinel Island and finally succeeded on Saturday, taking a dinghy with the fishermen, then completing the rest of the journey by kayak.“Somehow he made it,” said Giles. There were 18 small huts, with little fires burning in front of each, fenced off with sticks.”Indian police said a murder case had been registered against “unknown tribesmen” and seven people arrested for helping Chau reach the island.On Wednesday night Chau’s family posted on his Instagram page saying that they forgave his killers and asked that those who helped him be released. North Sentinel Island is unlike any other place on Earth. They are thought to have had no contact with surrounding communities since 1991. Starting in the 1960s, anthropologists – protected by armed guards – succeeded first in exchanging gifts, then conducting field visits with the tribe, but abandoned their efforts around 25 years ago.The Sentinelese people violently resist contact with outsiders. Later they said he was taken deeper [into the island] and buried.”The Andaman and Nicobar Islands are scattered across the juncture of the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea.
This resulted in the deaths of two fishermen in 2006 and a US missionary, North Sentinel lies 36 kilometres (22 mi) west of the town of Wandoor in North Sentinel is surrounded by coral reefs, and lacks natural harbours. “He could be passing on diseases that could literally wipe them all out.”The Indian government has what it calls a “hands off, eyes on” policy to the tribe, meaning officials moor boats near the island every few months to check on the inhabitants’ welfare.The US consulate in Chennai, the capital of southern Tamil Nadu state, said it was aware of the reports of Chau’s death but spokeswoman Kathleen Hosie declined to comment further due to privacy considerations.Shiv Visvanathan, a social scientist and a professor at Jindal Global Law School, said the North Sentinel Island was a protected area and not open to tourists.
The government has to protect them,” he said.Poachers are known to fish illegally in the waters around the island, catching turtles and diving for lobsters and sea cucumbers.Only about 700 people belonging to the four native tribes of the islands are thought to remain, down from the 5,000 the British estimated were there when they arrived. The Indian government has declared the entire island and its surrounding waters extending 5 nautical miles (9.26 km) from the island to be an The Andaman and Nicobar (Protection of Aboriginal Tribes) Regulation, 1956 provides protection to the Sentinelese and other native tribes in the region.
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