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American man arrested for illegally entering Andaman's North Sentinel Island, one of the world's most restricted areas (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
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[–] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aren't these guys uncontacted because they've attacked literally everything that we've seen them with?

So essentially any contact would probably go poorly for the first contactors, and go worse for them?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yes.

    Although to my memory it is because the first contact lead to 50% of their population being killed so now they live in violent isolation.

    I could also be confusing them with other islands in the area.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    There's one guy that gave them food for twenty years without violating their space. He was able to get pictures with them when they came up to the boat one day. They didn't shoot him or showed agression.

    It's possible they were desperate for food that day.

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