So the Sentinelese fear of outsiders is very understandable,” Stephen Corry, the group’s director, said in a statement. “The British colonial occupation of the Andaman Islands decimated the tribes living there, wiping out thousands of tribespeople, and only a fraction of the original population now survives. Survival International, an organisation that works for the rights of tribal people, said the killing of the American should prompt Indian authorities to properly protect the lands of the Sentinelese. Police officer Vijay Singh said on Thursday morning that police were exploring their options since they cannot go directly to the restricted area. Police surveyed the island by air on Tuesday, and a team of police and forest department officials used a coast guard boat to travel there on Wednesday and another trip was planned on Thursday. “You guys might think I’m crazy in all this but I think its worthwhile to declare Jesus to these people,” he wrote in his last note. One of the tribespeople then shot at him with an arrow, the Post reported, which pierced his waterproof Bible. Writing about his first visit there, Chau said: “I hollered, ‘My name is John, I love you and Jesus loves you.'” The Washington Post, citing Chau’s journal which was shared with the paper by his mother, said the missionary went to the island to convert the tribespeople to Christianity. The next morning the fisherman saw his body being dragged across a beach and buried in the sand, Pathak said. He told the fisherman on November 16 that he would not come back from the island and instructed them to return home and pass some handwritten notes he had made to a friend. Pathak, the police chief, said Chau had made two or three other trips to the island from November 15, making contact with the tribe, but always returning to his boat. ![]() Chau was apparently shot and killed by arrows, but the cause of death can not be confirmed until his body is recovered, Pathak told The Associated Press news agency.
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