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Missionary killed in North Sentinel Island
https://www.news.com.au/travel/trave...8970fe39b76af9
A swashbuckling American preacher outlined his bizarre plan to convert the world’s most isolated tribe to Christianity in a series of handwritten notes made public by his family.
John Allen Chau, 26, was killed in a hail of arrows and buried in the sand shortly after setting foot on India’s North Sentinel Island, which is part of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago in the Bay of Bengal.
The region is home to five Stone Age tribes — believed to be the last in existence — who live completely cut off from the rest of the world and are protected by the Indian government.
The Sentinelese are the most reclusive of the cluster and have a fearsome reputation for driving away uninvited guests — whether they arrive by boat or fly overhead — with spears and bow and arrows.
Mr Chau made multiple unsolicited trips to the community over the past three years as he formulated a deluded plan to “establish the kingdom of Jesus” on the island.
Sources from within his missionary circle told AP that Mr Chau interacted with some of the tribesmen, who survive by hunting, fishing and gathering plants, on a handful of occasions.
He appears to have been tolerated until his penultimate journey, when locals started losing patience.
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