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Police struggle to recover body of US missionary killed by remote island tribe
FoxNews.com ^ | Nov 22, 2018

Posted on 11/23/2018 7:32:36 AM PST by ETL

John Allen Chau was killed last week by North Sentinel islanders who apparently shot him with arrows and then buried his body on the beach, police say.

But even officials don't travel to North Sentinel, where people live as their ancestors did thousands of years ago, and where outsiders are seen with suspicion and attacked.

"It's a difficult proposition," said Dependera Pathak, director-general of police on India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands, where North Sentinel is located.

"We have to see what is possible, taking utmost care of the sensitivity of the group and the legal requirements." ..."

Police are consulting anthropologists, tribal welfare experts and scholars to figure out a way to recover the body, he said.

While visits to the island are heavily restricted, Chau paid fishermen last week to take him near North Sentinel, using a kayak to paddle to shore and bringing gifts including a football and fish. ..."

he wrote about his visit and left his notes with the fishermen. He returned to North Sentinel the next day, Nov. 16.

What happened then isn't known, but on the morning of the following day, the fishermen watched from the boat as tribesmen dragged Chau's body along the beach and buried his remains. ..."

Chau was apparently shot and killed by arrows, but the cause of death can't be confirmed until his body is recovered, Pathak said. ..."

"He didn't go there for just adventure. I have no question it was to bring the gospel of Jesus to them," Staver said.

Staver said Chau's last notes to his family on Nov. 16 told them that they might think he was crazy but that he felt it was worth it and asked that they not be angry if he was killed.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: alabama; andamanislands; india; johnallenchau; johnchau; northsentinelisland; vancouver; washington
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To: ETL

They didn’t eat him?


41 posted on 11/23/2018 8:02:39 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: ETL

What the USAF looks like to the EBEs.


42 posted on 11/23/2018 8:03:23 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: luvbach1

These guys are really wild! ................................. Yeah, I bet they’re fighting over who gets the drumstick.


43 posted on 11/23/2018 8:04:13 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (What is earned is treasured, what is free is worth what you paid for it.)
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To: moovova

They “found their beach”


44 posted on 11/23/2018 8:04:27 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: mostly_lies

I have a library full of excellent history books


45 posted on 11/23/2018 8:05:22 AM PST by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: Jonty30
We in the West are because others long ago were willing to die for our sake to bring us out of darkness.

You raise an interesting concept that begs for clarification. Who were those "others" responsible for bringing the "west" out of the darkness?

46 posted on 11/23/2018 8:07:56 AM PST by frog in a pot (The result of many federal bailouts? Taxpayers elsewhere in America finance the Left's growth.)
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To: bert

And bras.


47 posted on 11/23/2018 8:10:39 AM PST by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: ETL

I don’t see the point in recovering the body. Leave it to rot. Good riddance.


48 posted on 11/23/2018 8:11:39 AM PST by meatloaf
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To: Jonty30

Leave them be we have no right invading their island and “civilizing” them against their will.


49 posted on 11/23/2018 8:14:20 AM PST by aquila48
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To: sport
The bows would not concern me. It is the arrows that those bows shoot that make me nervous. An arrow through the gut has been known to ruin one’s day.

Of course they had arrows. Why would they be carrying bows without the arrows? I was replying to someone who thought they might be trying to construct a message in the sand with what he/she apparently believed were sticks or reeds.


50 posted on 11/23/2018 8:14:47 AM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: frog in a pot
I highly recommend the book "The Light and The Glory" by Peter Marshal & David Manuel from 1977. It will answer your question.
51 posted on 11/23/2018 8:18:09 AM PST by 4yearlurker ("There stands mother under the oleanders,open the windows." A dying cowboys last words,1879.)
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To: frog in a pot

Christian martyrs. Prior to the introduction of Christianity, Europe was not a good place to be. Christianity civilized us.


52 posted on 11/23/2018 8:19:07 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cults.)
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To: I want the USA back

“Betting he’s condemned and the savages are canonized.”

Let me guess, you want him to receive an award for being stupid?

Those people didnt ask for him to show up


53 posted on 11/23/2018 8:19:12 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Blue House Sue

“Offer the tribesman jobs as American Border Patrol Agents.”

Excellent idea! I like creative thinkers.


54 posted on 11/23/2018 8:19:33 AM PST by aquila48
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To: meatloaf
I don’t see the point in recovering the body. Leave it to rot. Good riddance.

Agreed, that he shouldn't have gone there, but Leave him to rot, good riddance? That's pretty twisted.

55 posted on 11/23/2018 8:20:02 AM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: ETL
Someone got up close and at least got up close enough to take a photo and then leave.

Or are these indigenous peeps in this picture from Africa or South America or some other place?

56 posted on 11/23/2018 8:22:22 AM PST by OKSooner (Whatever happened to, "The midterms are safe."?)
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To: NFHale

“He is no fool who gives up that which he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot loose.”

Jim Elliot - martyred by the Auca Indians, 1956 Ecuador


57 posted on 11/23/2018 8:23:13 AM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: ETL
Leave him there for the sand crabs. Guy was a bloomin' idiot.

And that second picture looks like a (c)rap concert ...

58 posted on 11/23/2018 8:23:14 AM PST by IronJack
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To: ETL

In the overall scheme of thing, the foolish dead man is nothingness


59 posted on 11/23/2018 8:23:21 AM PST by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: ETL
Like time travel to 50,000 B.C. At least they bury their dead.


60 posted on 11/23/2018 8:23:46 AM PST by farming pharmer
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