I believe the Indian government provides aid of some sort, but I’m not interested enough to do further research. 
For awhile gifts were being left for the Sentinelese and other nearby islanders but then the injury and death rate for the gift-givers started to climb and the practice was discontinued. The islanders appear to still be using some of the items, like aluminum pots.
Most of the aid the Indian government renders in this case is in keeping other people away from the island. Which is probably the only aid the Sentinelese really want.
That is a bold statement, and I would be quite surprised to see evidence of any such thing occurring this century. What aid? It’s not like there is a pavilion on the island where people can get free vaccinations, T-shirts, and Spam.
Alright, I’ll do a little research. From OP’s link:
“The island, North Sentinel Island, is inhabited by the Sentinelese, who are protected under Indian law.”
Aid, protection, something.
There.
From wiki… bolding mine.
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Interesting diversity in Christian media’s take on this event.
International Christian Concern:
They leave out the fact that he was part of their group and that they sponsored him.
Has anyone submitted this guy to the Darwin Awards yet?
I admit, I often feel bad about laughing at Darwin “winners”; we all do really stupid things at some point, only most of us survive to realize we were idiots. But this guy went proselytizing to Sentinel Island. I can’t bring myself to feel any sort of empathy there.
Not only that, after they shot arrows at him and damaged his kayak but allowed him to escape with his life, he went back even though they made it clear they didn’t want him there. This guy worked very hard at getting himself killed.
Given the strong martyrdom tradition in Christianity, it seems likely that he was trying to get himself killed. Or, if that wasn’t his primary goal, it was a likelihood that he was completely comfortable with. Not an idiot so much as a zealot.
My fear is that his martyrdom is going to inspire others to follow.
And yet, here in America, we have things like Stand Your Ground laws and a Japanese exchange student who walked up to the wrong house can be murdered by the homeowner who is then acquitted of the crime. (I mentioned that case because it seemed similar in that there was also a language barrier.)
One of those decals of a Darwin Fish eating a Jesus fish would be especially fitting given some of his last words: “Jesus loves you, here is some fish!”
I have to think it wasn’t an attempt at martyrdom, but rather he believed that he was doing god’s work and god would protect him.
Stupid, but there it is. Some believers are like that.
I also find it despicable that the ICC is calling this an act of persecution. Technically, I suppose it is, but I’ve always felt persecution was something by a group in power against a group not in favor. One guy going into the Andaman Islands to proselytize doesn’t fit in my book. Now if one of the Sentinel Islanders chose to convert, and then the rest of his group shunned him or murdered him for it, then that would be persecution. But telling someone to fuck off while they happen to have different religious beliefs doesn’t fit.
Similarly, while I don’t approve of the violence and death, I have a hard time with many of the acts that page describes as persecution being such. Some Christians are so hard up to view themselves and Christianity as being the victims that they go looking for cases of “persecution” to justify that belief. So much so, they look at acts in the US of trying to balance the playing field for other religious beliefs as “persecution”.
For it to have been persecution, they would have had to have killed him because of his religion. There is no evidence that was the case. They probably had no idea that he was trying to convert them - they may not have had any concept that there could be some other religious beliefs than their own.
They killed the fishermen just because they were on the island. This guy was killed for persistent trespassing, not for proselytizing.
sounds like an excellent Darwin award candidate.
yeah, this is not a case of religious persecution. Anyone who claims it is is either confused or dishonest.
To the extent we can guess at what the Sentinelese are thinking, they appear to be legitimately afraid of contact, and see outsiders as a serious threat to their society. People landing there are, in effect, an invading force, to which the Sentinelese responded with a military defense as they understand it.
And given the history of how Stone Age people have fared against modern Christian types, their fears are pretty true to life.
Apparently he wrote a letter and several pages of notes before he went back to the island. He sounds quite conflicted about dying.
I do feel sorry for him, even if he was an idiot. He died afraid and in agony. He wasn’t raised well.
Sort of like a missionary with a half dozen arrows in him? I imagine he was filled with the holy spirit right up until the first arrow struck.
I know there a section in the bible that reads “no weapon formed against me shall prosper,” does this mean that general purpose, to whom it may concern, type weapons prosper just fine? Or is it that specific ME, weapons are useless against MY magnificent self, but you meat-bags are on your own?
This is what faith without humility looks like.
To believe that God chose you and only you to bring light to these benighted people. To believe that God will protect you from your own stupidity because you think you know God 's will.
You are not acting on god’s will. You are telling God what his will is.
That article quotes a Scot who met him on a flight three years and says that Chau told him that Chau went around the world to work as an EMT after major incidents, including Hurricane Katrina. Except Katrina was thirteen years ago, and Chau is 26 years old.
I agree that Chau does not seem humble.