A daredevil YouTube influencer has been arrested after visiting a distant Indian island, the place he tried to make unlawful contact with indigenous folks, in response to world stories.
Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, of Arizona, allegedly traveled to the restricted North Sentinel Island, the place he tried to supply a coconut and may of Food regimen Coke as “offerings for the Sentinelese,” The Andaman Chronicle and The Washington Publish reported, citing native police.
Police in Andaman and Nicobar Islands reportedly mentioned he visited the area due to “his passion for adventure and his desire to undertake extreme challenges,” police mentioned. It was apparently his third time attempting to make the journey, in response to The Publish.
Polyakov was additionally apparently sporting a GoPro moveable digicam, exhibiting him coming into the island’s shore “claiming unofficial representation of the U.S.,” police mentioned in a press release.
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Satellite tv for pc imagery of North Sentinel Island, which is likely one of the Andaman Islands, an Indian archipelago within the Bay of Bengal. The island is a protected space of India that’s house to the Sentinelese, an indigenous tribe in voluntary isolation. (Satellite tv for pc picture (c) 2024 Maxar Applied sciences.)
He stayed on the island for about 5 minutes, gathering samples and recording video footage, however reportedly didn’t make contact with any indigenous folks. He then remained offshore in a ship for about an hour earlier than native fisherman noticed him and contacted authorities, The Publish and the Chronicle reported.
Polyakov, who goes by Neo-Orientalist on YouTube, has a six-part video sequence exhibiting his travels by “Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.”
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Contact with the Sentinelese folks is strictly prohibited on account of their protected indigenous lifestyle, the Chronicle reported.
The Jarawas, a tribe of small negroids genetically much like the South African bushmen, stay on the Andaman Islands, an archipelago stretching between Burma and Indonesia in the midst of the Bay of Bengal (Indian Ocean). (Thierry Falise/LightRocket )
“We are getting more details about him and his intention to visit the reserved tribal area. We are also trying to find where else he had visited during his stay in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. We are questioning the hotel staff where he was staying in Port Blair,” Hargobinder Singh Dhaliwal, director basic of police of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, mentioned in a press release to the Chronicle.
Caroline Pearce, director of Survival Worldwide, a nonprofit searching for to assist indigenous and tribal societies around the globe, referred to as Polyakov’s actions “deeply disturbing” and famous the loss of life of an American missionary who tried to make contact with folks on the island in 2018.
Contact with the Sentinelese folks is strictly prohibited on account of their protected indigenous lifestyle, The Andaman Chronicle reported. (Ed Reeve/View Photos/Common Photos Group)
“The Sentinelese have made their wish to avoid outsiders incredibly clear over the years – I’m sure many remember the 2018 incident in which an American missionary, John Allen Chau, was killed by them after landing on their island to try to convert them to Christianity,” Pearce mentioned in a press release. “It’s good news that the man in this latest incident has been arrested, but deeply disturbing that he was reportedly able to get onto the island in the first place”
Pearce added that uncontacted indigenous peoples throughout the globe “are experiencing the invasion of their lands on a shocking scale.”
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“Countless uncontacted peoples in the Amazon are being invaded by loggers and gold-miners. The uncontacted Shompen of Great Nicobar Island, not far from North Sentinel, will be wiped out if India goes ahead with its plan to transform their island into ‘the Hong Kong of India,’” Pearce continued. “The common factor in all these cases is governments’ refusal to abide by international law and recognize and protect uncontacted peoples’ territories.”
Polyakov is presently in judicial custody and has a listening to scheduled for April 17, The Publish reported.
