Local media have reported that Chau may have wanted to meet the tribe to preach Christianity to them.
cdeb wrote: » Uncontacted. Unless you're saying they're going around tapping debit cards at people.
cdeb wrote: » Why would you have no business going to Tajikistan? Fairly ignorant comment tbh.
VanGogh18 wrote: » Why should those islanders be left in peace when we are not being left alone in peace on our island fukin hypocrisy of the left
Deleted User wrote: » How do we know they never domesticated dogs? I'm always extremely sceptical when it come to the *ahem* soft sciences.
erica74 wrote: » Let them chill on their island in peace. You'd be jealous of them really.
On the evening of 14 November the group of six pretended to be fishing to evade the patrolling police, coast guard and navy ships, reaching the island at midnight before Mr Chau kayaked to the island on the morning of 15 November.
Indian police officials confirmed the death and said a local electronics engineer simply named Alexander, who was a friend of Mr Chau's, a local watersports instructor and five fishermen who allegedly aided last Saturday's visit have been arrested for violating the terms of the island protection laws and for causing Mr Chau's death.
Local officers said they received an email from the US consulate general in Chennai, on the Indian mainland, saying Mr Chau's mother had contacted them to tell them he had visited North Sentinel Island and been attacked by tribesmen. They said the fishermen informed Alexander in Port Blair about his death and gave him 13 pages of his journal. Alexander then told one of Mr Chau's friends in the US who told his mother. "They didn't inform the police or any government authority in this regard," Andaman Police said.
Police officials said a murder case had been registered against "unknown" tribespeople - but they are also blaming the fishermen, Mr Chau's friend and the watersports instructor.
Since then no official contact has been allowed. What is known of their culture is minimal. They're likely similar to others in the region. One odd thing they do when approached by boats is as well as hurling spears and arrows the men and women shag each other vigorously on the beach in full view. Showing off in fact. What that's about who knows.
Wibbs wrote: » https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExdEHU02Zk0
Veronica Cold Frame wrote: » How did the photographer not die :eek:
In his notes, the source said, Chau wrote that some members of the tribe were good to him while others were very aggressive. “I have been so nice to them, why are they so angry and so aggressive?” the source quoted Chau as saying. Reuters was unable to immediately trace contact details for Chau’s family or a representative. The source, who asked not to be named, said Chau wrote that he was “doing this to establish the kingdom of Jesus on the island...Do not blame the natives if I am killed.”
troyzer wrote: » They've killed someone before and I remember reading that the government decided that basically no laws apply there and they couldn't be prosecuted.
FTA69 wrote: » Some dopey arrogant yank rocking up off his head on Jesus and the Good News isn’t going to be exempt from their suspicion. I’ve no sympathy for him.
Feisar wrote: » ??? What? Yer taking the pistachios. ISIS roaming about, that's why.
Wibbs wrote: » Wut nonsense is this? They have made it abundantly clear for many decades they want to be left alone. The government of the region respects that wish and makes it illegal to contact them. Once or twice they have been friendly to passing fishermen so long as they didn't step onto their land. Moron goes to convert them into a culture nor religion they want to have anything to do with, a moron that could kill them with a sneeze and they kill him. Sounds like a pretty good basis for self defence to me.
Wibbs wrote: » Here's a friendly encounter back in the 90's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExdEHU02Zk0 Since then no official contact has been allowed. What is known of their culture is minimal. They're likely similar to others in the region. One odd thing they do when approached by boats is as well as hurling spears and arrows the men and women shag each other vigorously on the beach in full view. Showing off in fact. What that's about who knows.
Wibbs wrote: » It's not social sciences we're talking here. Archaeological evidence and the various tribes own words. The domestication of the wolf/dog appears to have happened a couple of times in a couple of places, but the earliest definitive example of a "dog" is about 15,000 years ago. There are tantalising glimpses that may show earlier domestication events at 20,000 plus years ago, but they're rare. Genetic evidence in modern dogs and wolves gives a figure around the 10,000 mark. The upshot of all that being that the Andaman islanders had long left Africa and the Asian mainland before the dog came along. That added to the archaeological evidence strongly suggests they didn't have dogs until outsiders showed up. And even then when they did, the islanders showed no interest in keeping dogs themselves. Their cultures have degraded over the millennia. They once had pottery, but for some reason knocked that on the head about a thousand years ago. That tech may well have been brought in from outside.
cdeb wrote: » Ignorance it is so. FCO advice is Tajikistan is grand barring general precautions. Other Stans are fantastic tourist destinations. The attack you reference was the first of its kind in Tajikistan. Not comparable with a group of people it's illegal to contact because they are actively hostile to outsiders. But hey, close your mind to the Stans because of one incident if you want. But it's the definition of ignorance really (This has gone way off topic; apologies)
Galwayguy35 wrote: » If there is only around 150 of them they must be very inbred by now, I'm not saying that trying to be smart or anything but you would think it would mean they have health problems when they are all so closely related.
CinemaGuy45 wrote: » Reminds me of a group we have in Ireland but this Tribe in India stick to themselves. I wonder is there any chance of swapping?
jmayo wrote: » It would remind me of a few places, one being in Galway.
Galwayguy35 wrote: » We like to cross the border to breed with Mayo women occasionally just to mix things up a bit
Ipso wrote: » How do you stop them from shooting arrows at you?
