American Tourist leaves Coca Cola for the most isolated tribe in the world and is arrested
A 24 -year -old American tourist was arrested in India For Enter a remote tribal area Where the islanders have no contact with the outside world, the police said on Wednesday.
Mykhale Viktoroviccch Polyakov, whose father comes UkraineStandy on the island of North Sentinel, a part of the Andaman Islands of India, in an attempt to get in touch with the isolated sentinel tribe, said the police.
He recorded his visit to the island, leaving a can of coca and a coconut on the shore as a “offer” to the people of the tribe.
The influencer, which manages a YouTube channel that documented extreme travel and previously visited the Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban, traveled nine hours in a small rubber boat with an outboard engine to reach the island and used binocular to detect the area but did not see inhabitants.
He tried to attract the attention of the natives by blowing a whistle and briefly landed on the shore for a few minutes before leaving. He left the offers and collected sand samples during the recording of a video, said the police.
He arrived in the capital, Port Blair, on March 27 and was arrested three days after Sunday after being reported to the police by the locals, who saw him take a boat for the island of North Sentinel.
Andaman and Nicobar, a former British criminal colony, is a group of 572 islands located more than 1,200 km (700 miles) from continental India. THE The Indian government strictly monitors access to some remote parts of the federal territory, which host five known indigenous tribes, some of which hostile to strangers.
These tribes, including Sentinelesi, Jarwa, Onge, Shompens and great Andamanesi, and are among the last isolated communities in the world.
The Indians and foreigners are forbidden to travel within 3 miles (5 km) from the island to protect the natives from external diseases and safeguard their way of life.
The General Manager of Andaman and Nicobar of the Police HS Dhaliwal said that the police were notified after the premises identified the man near the beach of Khuramadera, in the south of Andaman, relatively close to the reserve forest of Jarwa, which is a protected area for the indigenous tribe Jarwa.
“We are getting more details about him and his intention to visit the reserved tribal area. We are also trying to find out where he visited during his stay in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. We are questioning the hotel staff where he was staying in Port Blair,” said the police at Press Trust of India.
Mr. Dhaliwal told the FP that the American tourist “briefly landed for about five minutes, left the offers on the shore, collected sand samples and recorded a video before returning to his boat”.
“A review of his Gopro Camera video showed his entry and landing on the island of North Sentinel limited.”
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A formal complaint was recorded against him pursuant to the Foreignrs Act, in 1946, and to have entered a tribal reserve or limited area without permission.
According to reports, Mr. Polyakov was on his third trip to the islands after visiting twice last year. The police declared that he had informed the Ministry of his detention and that officials were in contact with the American embassy.
The tribal lands are legally protected under the Andaman and Nicobar islands (protection of the Aboriginal tribes), 1956, which prohibits unauthorized entrance.
In 2018, American Missionary John Allen Chau27, He was killed by the SentineliAn extinction tribe, after illegally trying to enter their territory to preach Christianity. Presumably he was killed after the courts fired him Arrows while his boat approached the island.
In 2006, two Indian fishermen who accidentally moved to the North Sentinel Island They were killed by the Sentinelese tribe. When an Indian military helicopter then flown on the island, the tribal members launched arrows in a challenge show.
The navy since it imposes a bearing area of three miles around the island, ensuring that no stranger is approaching.
