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Part Two: The Accidental Genocide of the Andaman Islands

Behind the Bastards

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The Sentinels - A Long History

In 1997 the indian government put an end to all further attempts to contact the people of north sentinel island. Most of their close contact with the outside has involved violent murder abduction and disease. The ancestors of the tribe first arrived on north sentinel Island as far back is 65,000 years ago You'll hear anywhere from like 55-65,000 years. Roughly five times as long as human civilization has existed right since we've been building cities 30,000 years before dogs were domesticated.

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