NEW DELHI: The Restricted Area Permit (RAP), which forbids people from visiting prohibited locations without permission, may be reimposed in the North Sentinel island where an American was killed by members of a highly protected and reclusive tribe, officials said Wednesday. In the morning of November 17, they saw a dead person being buried at the shore which from the silhouette of the body, clothing and circumstances appeared to be the body of Chau, the police said.Ĭhau's accomplice and the fishermen were later arrested by the police. The next day, he moved to shore using his kayak which he towed with the fishing boat.Īfter dropping him, the fishermen fixed their timings and place to meet each other between the shoreline and their high sea fishing area. Earlier this month, an American evangelist, 27-year-old John Allen Chau, managed to sneak onto the North Sentinal Island in an apparent attempt to convert the Sentinelese tribe to Christianity. The police said the slain American had enlisted the help of a local electronics engineer and water sports service provider and hired five fishermen to evade the patrolling teams of police, Coast Guard and Navy to approach the island.įor this, the local fishermen were paid around Rs 25,000 by Chau.Ĭhau and the team had started on November 14 around 8 PM for the North Sentinel Island and reached there by midnight. John Allen Chau (Decem November 15, 2018) was an American evangelical Christian missionary who was killed by the Sentinelese, an indigenous people in voluntary isolation, after he illegally traveled to North Sentinel Island, India in an attempt to convert the tribe to Christianity.
Fringed with beaches and crystal cobalt waters, it lies in the Andaman archipelago of the Bay of Bengal. On a map, North Sentinel Island looks like any other idyllic spot in the Indian Ocean. Home to a fiercely independent tribe, it is both ferociously dangerous and worryingly fragile. The home ministry has also submitted a report to the NCST on the incident, the official said. North Sentinel Island is unlike any other place on Earth. Meanwhile, a delegation of the NCST, headed by its chairman Nand Kumar Sai will visit the Andamans on December 4 to take stock of the situation there arising after the killing of Chau. However, none of these incidents are related to the RAP, another official said. The home ministry has also found that as many as 44 incidents of violation of rules and regulations by foreign tourists have taken place in the Andamans in the recent past. The North Sentinel island is one of 29 islands in the Andamans where till June foreigners had to take special permission - the RAP - before being allowed to visit them.Įven though RAP was withdrawn, any tourist is required to take permission from the forest department and the administration of the Andamans as it is protected under two other acts - protection of aboriginal people and forest acts. But by this time, the hunters were returning.A worst-case scenario would be reimposition of the RAP in the North Sentinel island along with a few other islets, the official said. Once our diver found one body, they dug up the other heap which was two feet away. They found the remains of one man who appeared to have been strangled by a rope which was from their own boat. I told my air crew diver to get down and to dig it up. "Once I landed near the boat, I could make out two 'heaps' in the sand.
When they were reasonably far from the boat, Commandant Gaur quickly flew back to his original location, and was about to land, when he saw two clumps a short distance away from the boat. The Sentinel hunters chased the chopper along the beach. So he flew his helicopter, slowly, about 1.5 kilometres away from the location of the fishermen's boat. There were no women present."Ĭommandant Gaur realised the only way to get access to the boat would be to divert the islanders to another location a short distance away. "There would have been more than 50 warriors - the hunters wore a red kind of skirt. The arrows were coming up to a height of 100 feet," says Commandant Gaur who realised he needed a Plan B if this rescue mission had any hope of success.
"As we were going down, we were attacked by the Sentinel tribals who were using bows and arrows and had spears as well. Sentinel tribe hunters waiting on the fishing boat on the North Sentinel Island in 2006
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