NEW DELHI — For thousands of years, the people of North Sentinel island have been isolated from the rest of the world. Scholars believe the Sentinelese migrated from Africa roughly 50,000 years ago, but most details of their lives remain completely unknown. North Sentinel is an outpost of the island chain, which is far closer to Myanmar and Thailand than to mainland India. Many of the island chain’s other tribes have been decimated over the past century, lost to disease, intermarriage and migration. “The authorities lifted one of the restrictions that had been protecting the Sentinelese tribe’s island from foreign tourists, which sent exactly the wrong message, and may have contributed to this terrible event,” the group said in a statement.

Source: National Post November 22, 2018 08:03 UTC