Posted on 11/25/2018 10:12:13 AM PST by Simon Green
Indian officers had a nervous long-distance face-off with the tribe who killed an American missionary, in their latest bid to locate his body on a remote island, police said Sunday.
The police team, who took a boat just off Indian-owned North Sentinel island on Saturday, spotted men from the Sentinelese tribe on the beach where John Allen Chau was last seen, the region's police chief Dependra Pathak told AFP.
Using binoculars, officers -- in a police boat about 400 metres from the shore -- saw the men armed with bows and arrows, the weapons reportedly used by the isolated tribe to kill Chau as he shouted Christian phrases at them.
"They stared at us and we were looking at them," said Pathak. The boat withdrew to avoid any chance of a confrontation.
Police are taking painstaking efforts to avoid any disruption to the Sentinelese -- a pre-neolithic tribe whose island is off-limits to outsiders -- as they seek Chau's body.
The death of the 27-year-old on November 17 has cast a new spotlight on efforts to protect one of the world's last "uncontacted" tribes whose language and customs remain a mystery to outsiders.
Fishermen who took Chau to North Sentinel -- which is one of the Andaman and Nicobar islands in the Bay of Bengal -- said they saw the tribe burying the body on the beach.
The Sentinelese normally attack anyone who goes to the island and Pathak said police are monitoring to see if there is a repeat of an incident after two fishermen who strayed onto the island were killed in 2006.
One week after their deaths, the bodies of the two Indians were hooked on bamboo stakes facing out to sea.
"It was a kind of scarecrow," Pathak said.
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Are they going to violate the Prime Directive?
Are they going to violate the Prime Directive?
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I don’t think so.
It would be ironic if this dumb ##$#$ who some here praise endlessly, ended up being the reason the tribe gets massacred.
It’s funny. NO ONE her wants the outside world to bother us or invade us.
But if it’s in the name of GAWD, well then by all means go ahead!
He did something REALLY stupid, that even our Lord would think was STUPID, i’m pretty sure, and now he’s dead.
Leave it alone.
Dot recall Jesus saying go preach to those who won’t understand a WORD YOU SAY.
why are they even bothering? This guy was one of the dumbest humans in history. Let it go.
why are they even bothering? This guy was one of the dumbest humans in history. Let it go.
They need to just leave that body there. It’s over. He’s dead. RIP and let that be a lesson to the next foolhardy young zealot.
“Are they going to violate the Prime Directive?”
Sounds like a lot of “uncontacted tribespeople” should be going to jail for multiple murder.
At first he was an extreme adventure guy, now he’s a missionary?
fighting off invaders who threaten their way of life
You are one if the moonbats laughing at this and praising his murder.
Insane.
For enforcing their borders?
You too are an insane crazy lefty moonbat praising murder because he is “a zealot”.
Sick.
For me this raises the point of why media liberals think we are responsible for taking action on the murder of "journalist" Jamal Khashoggi.
“why are they even bothering? This guy was one of the dumbest humans in history. Let it go.”
Not as stupid and evil as you, a person who supports cold blooded crassly murder.
He spoke a lot about God and Jesus in his final moments. And by “spoke” I mean screamed.
“recovering the body will only be made possible by killing them all.”
Ludicrous.
“He spoke a lot about God and Jesus in his final moments. And by “spoke” I mean screamed.”
How do you know! You don’t. This comment says more about you and your callous disregard for life and hardened heart.
Sad.
Stupid is supposed to hurt.
In this case it was fatal.
Darwin Award Winner 2018.
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