Results: American arrested after trying to reach protected, remote tribe off Indian coast
Published on 04/08/2025
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Indian police have arrested a 24-year-old American YouTuber who visited an off-limits island in the Indian Ocean and left an offering of a Diet Coke can and a coconut in an attempt to make contact with an isolated tribe known for attacking intruders. Visitors are banned from traveling within 3 miles of the island, whose population has been isolated from the rest of the world for thousands of years. Do you agree with the law that prohibits contact with the Sentinelese tribe?
Yes, it protects their health and way of life
64%
1790 votes
No, people should be free to explore
11%
295 votes
Undecided
24%
680 votes
Other (please specify)
1%
35 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| 0.82% | 23 | |
| n/a | 0.14% | 4 |
| Don't care | 0.04% | 1 |
| I would not trust going to a place I do not know. | 0.04% | 1 |
| Leave them alone. They are violent savages. | 0.04% | 1 |
| Na | 0.04% | 1 |
| how about a compromise like viewing from a distance but no contact | 0.04% | 1 |
| Unknown circumstances | 0.04% | 1 |
| Bill Gates should vaccinate the tribe before anyone tries to visit them | 0.04% | 1 |
| This is America free country supposed to be. If the young adult was trying to make contact as an Indian American having Indian American hisself I don't think he deserves jail time for trying to communicate whether the law prohibits it or not......... | 0.04% | 1 |
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The inhabitants use spears, bows, and arrows to hunt the animals that roam the small, heavily forested island. Deeply suspicious of outsiders, they attack anyone who lands on their beaches. In 2018, an American missionary who landed illegally on the beach was killed by North Sentinel islanders who apparently shot him with arrows and then buried his body on the beach. In 2006, the Sentinelese killed two fishermen who had accidentally landed on the shore. Even though we should not contact them, are you curious about them and their way of life? Yes
41%
1152 votes
No
35%
979 votes
Undecided
24%
669 votes
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