• chaogomu@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The North Sentinel Island Sentinelese are not cannibals. They just want nothing to do with anyone not born on the island.

    Which is a good policy to have, seeing as how the British genocided the rest of the Andaman Islands. They even landed on North Sentinel, kidnapped a few old people and children, and then sent the survivors back as plague bearers. (this was in 1880)

    • Regrettable_incident
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, it’s getting pretty hard to be an isolated community anywhere these days. Looks like these guys in the nicobar islands may be fucked.