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Part One: The Accidental Genocide of the Andaman Islands

Behind the Bastards

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The Andaman Islands Vaccine

The first European to describe the Andaman Islands was Marco Polo He said that the people there were quote a brutish and savage race having heads eyes and teeth like those of dogs They are very cruel and kill and eat every foreigner whom they can lay their hands upon. The historians suspect that he basically heard some vague rumors and then reported on them as if they were his own findings Just kind of have the whole Marco Polo thing, but the brand.

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