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American man arrested for illegally entering Andaman's North Sentinel Island, one of the world's most restricted areas (economictimes.indiatimes.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Domino@lemmings.world to c/world@quokk.au

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[–] selfAwareCoder@programming.dev 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes.

Although to my memory it is because the first contact lead to 50% of their population being killed so now they live in violent isolation.

I could also be confusing them with other islands in the area.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Especially since now there’s covid (in addition to everything else) and I don’t trust that guy to have taken sufficient precautions against transmitting diseases