American missionary believed God had 'called' him to convert tribe that shot him dead with arrows and spent years planning to get to their remote island as Indian police work out how to retrieve body

John Chau was killed as soon as he set foot on the remote North Sentinel Island
The 27-year-old EMT paid local fishermen to help him to the island last week
Chau took a boat ride with local fishermen before venturing to the island alone
As soon as he landed on the island, Chau found himself facing a flurry of arrows
The tribesmen who killed him can't be prosecuted as contact with them is illegal
The island's indigenous people live cut off completely from the outside world

An American missionary believed he had been 'called' to convert the protected tribe who shot him dead with arrows when he arrived on their remote Indian island.

John Allen Chau, 27, paid local fishermen to help him get to North Sentinel Island, one of the world's most isolated regions in India's Andaman islands, last week.

Chau took a boat ride with the fishermen before venturing alone in a canoe to where the indigenous people live cut off completely from the outside world, authorities said.

As soon as he set foot on the island, which is off-limits to visitors, Chau found himself facing a flurry of arrows - but he kept walking.

The tribe then tied a rope around his neck and dragging his body away, according to the fishermen who helped him get there.

Indian police said a murder case had been registered against 'unknown tribesmen' and seven people - the fishermen who took him to the island - have been arrested in connection with the death.

But the Sentinelese who killed Chau can't be prosecuted as contact with them and several tribes on the islands is illegal in a bid to protect their indigenous way of life and shield them from diseases.

Now, a friend has revealed to DailyMail.com that Chau was 'committed' to travelling to the remote island, deep in the Indian Ocean, to preach Christianity to the tribesmen and had been planning the trip for at least three years.



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6413235/American-tourist-27-killed-protected-tribesmen-remote-island.html

Why do people feel they have a right to push their religion on others? Leave them alone, and rightly so.

HoratioTarr wrote:Why do people feel they have  a right to push their religion on others?  Leave them alone, and rightly so.

I don't know but this is what should happen to them

I don't know why it should be up to the Indian police to retrieve his body  --  why not simply bury him there, or cremate him if necessary  ???

IF the idiot's family wants his remains back,  then let them pay for its' recovery..

Those fuckwit American evangelical God-botherers often seem to believe that they own the world.

NEW DELHI -- An American adventurer who kayaked to a remote Indian island populated by a tribe known for shooting at outsiders with bows and arrows has been killed, police said Wednesday. Dependera Pathak, director-general of police on India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands, identified the American as John Allen Chau and said he told a hotel he was 26 years old.

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

Pathak said seven fishermen have been arrested for helping the American reach North Sentinel Island. The Sentinelese people are resistant to outsiders and often attack anyone who comes near, and visits to the island are heavily restricted by the government.

"It was a case of misdirected adventure," Pathak said.

Police have approached anthropologists with contacts on the island in an effort to visit and recover the body, Pathak said.

He said Chau arrived in the area on Oct. 16 and stayed in a hotel while he prepared to travel to the island. It was not his first time in the region: Chau had visited the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in 2015 and 2016, Pathak said. North Sentinel is in the Andaman Islands at the intersection of the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-sentinel-island-american-john-allen-chau-killed-by-tribesmen-on-remote-island/

You can see the logic behind why the tribe did

This one inconsiderate person, could have been the death of this entire local indigenous population from desease.

Its terrible he has lost his life, but then he could have caused all their deaths by being so irresponsible

Horatio posted this same topic earlier...

+1

Preserving this tribe is a great idea. Though I bet if there gold in them thar hills they wouldn't remain isolated for long.

Reminds me of that guy who said he had a special relationship with grizzly bears, and went to Alaska to live with them.

He was found a few days later, half eaten.