Andamensee: American Tourist of indigenous people from India murdered

The master of the Nautilus is under the protection of the Indian act, the people want no contact with the outside world, the island on which it lives is locked for visitors. The indigenous tribe consists of less than 50 people, the Indian census counted in 2011 only 15, twelve men and three women. Now there was a murder case in the North island of the Ladies.

According to "India Today" has to bring a 27-year-old American named John Allen Chau by a fisherman for five consecutive days on the island. He should have had the deep desire, the Sentinelese. The man was a missionary, and I want to bring the indigenous people to Christianity, closer to the news page on the reporting of local media. He had traveled there to preach. The prohibition of the protected tribe he has ignored.

The people opposed to any contact energetic

The murder was in the evening of the 20th. November reported. According to the Reuters news Agency, the Americans of the isolated from the outside world living stem had been killed. Sultanbet The Sentinelese are a people of hunters and gatherers, without the use of money. The Indian police starts an investigation. A spokeswoman for the U.S.-American Konsilats in India have communicated by email that there had been reports about an American who was along for the Ladies and Nicobar Islands.

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Chau had rented a Dinghy and was of seven fishermen on the 16. November in the vicinity of the protected island. Then he was gone in a canoe. The fishermen have discovered on the way back the next day, his corpse was not recovered. The fishermen were arrested because you violated the protection of the island miss. The Sentinelese can not be prosecuted.

The people have repeatedly made it clear that it wants no contact with the outside world. In the case of a Tsunami in 2004, for example, have shot the tribe members on helicopters to the Indian coast guard with arrows.

sources: "India Today" / Reuters

Date Of Update: 22 November 2018, 08:00