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Part Two: The Accidental Genocide of the Andaman Islands

Behind the Bastards

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The Sentinelese People

On January 4th 1991 a government contact team paid a visit to north sentinel. The first such expedition in more than a year at first as the explorers approached the beach they could see no one on shore then finally a few sentinelese stepped out from behind some bushes and started to gesture at the explorers Seemingly trying to indicate that they wanted gifts. As usual the dinghy moved down the beach to a safe spot and a crewman jumped out to drop off a bag of coconuts as usual but for the first time ever the aborigines brought no weapons with them when they approached the water's edge. It was not out of character for them to rush out of the jungle

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