Not long ago, John Allen Chau’s - an American missionary - was killed by the Sentinelese tribe after he trespassed into North Sentinel Island. Clearly, they want to be left alone.

But it looks like, we have not learnt our lesson. Four people belonging to a village in the middle Andaman sneaked inside the Jarawa reserve Forest last week on December 8.

The four men were on foot inside the jungle and were caught by the members of the protected tribe, who thankfully handed them to the police with the help of Andaman Adim Janjati Vikas Samiti (AAJVS).

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These guys were about to do exactly what Chau had done. According to the police, Chau paid them Rs 25,000 to six local fishermen who took him to the island. Access to North Sentinel Island and its buffer zone is restricted under the Protection of Aboriginal Tribe (Regulation), 1956 and under the Indian Forest Act, 1927. The North Sentinel island is protected by the government as it is home to one of the last uncontacted tribes in the world.

Along with the North Sentinelese, Great Andamanese, Onge and Shompen, Jarawa come under ‘particularly vulnerable’ tribes of the Andamans.