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Again, watching wildlife from a distance is safer than going near.
A Ukranian American social media influncer decided to play colonialist. The Indian government is planning on criminally charging him for intervening in affairs he shouldn't been in.
North Sentinel Island is a inhabited population located about 34 miles from the union Islands of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. India has sovereignty over the territory and has a mandatory no visiting law in place.
The Sentinelese are tribal and have no direct contact with the modern world.
The last friendly encounter was in 1991. The most recent fatal encounters were in 2006 and 2018. Two fishermen who were drunk, Sunder Raj and Pandit Tiwari met a fatal encounter. They were fishing illegally in prohibited waters and were killed by the Sentinelese when their boat drifted too close to the island. There were no prosecutions.
John Allen Chu, an American indoctrinated by Christian extremist views wanted to make an encounter to Sentinelese. Chu was killed during an illegal trip to the restricted island where he planned to preach Christianity to the Sentinelese. The 2023 documentary film The Mission discusses the incident. Seven individuals were taken into custody by Indian police on suspicion of abetting Chau's illegal access to the island. Entering a radius of five nautical miles (nine kilometres) around the island is illegal under Indian law. The fishermen who illegally ferried Chau to North Sentinel said they saw tribesmen drag his body along a beach and bury it. Despite efforts by Indian authorities, which involved a tense encounter with the tribe, Chau's body was not recovered. Indian officials made several attempts to recover the body but eventually abandoned those efforts. An anthropologist involved in the case told The Guardian that the risk of a dangerous clash between investigators and the islanders was too great to justify any further attempts.
Now Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov is the latest idiot to test his nerve. Although he survived an encounter with the Sentinelese, his run in with the Indian authorities will not be so nice.
He faces up ten years if he is convicted. Polyakov made an unauthorized landing on the island. He illegally left behind Diet Coke and coconuts, collected sand samples and recorded a video before returning. He was subsequently arrested by the Indian Police Service with a view to prosecution. Following his arrest, he referred to himself as a "thrill seeker".
The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Indian authorities said this "thrill seeker" may have introduced diseases and contaminated the land.
Authorities revealed that Polyakov had visited the region twice, and both times tried to access the island. He used an inflatable kayak in October 2024 but was stopped by hotel staff, according to police. He also made another attempt to visit the island in January 2025.
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During his journey in March, Polyakov used another inflatable boat with a motor to travel through the open sea to the island.
Polyakov isn’t the first outsider attempting to make contact with the Sentinelese.
Survival International, a group that advocates for the rights of Indigenous and tribal people, issued a statement following Polyakov’s arrest and said that the alleged act endangered his life and the lives of the tribe.
“Reports that a U.S. national has been arrested after landing on North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean to make contact with the uncontacted Sentinelese people are ‘deeply disturbing,'” Caroline Pearce, the organization’s director, said.
“It beggars belief that someone could be that reckless and idiotic. This person’s actions not only endangered his own life, they put the lives of the entire Sentinelese tribe at risk. It’s very well known by now that uncontacted peoples have no immunity to common outside diseases like flu or measles, which could completely wipe them out,” she continued.
“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 added.
Pearce said it was “good news” that Polyakov got arrested, but she was disturbed that he was “reportedly able to get onto the island in the first place.”
“The Indian authorities have a legal responsibility to ensure that the Sentinelese are safe from missionaries, social media influencers, people fishing illegally in their waters and anyone else who may try to make contact with them,” Pearce said.
Polyakov’s YouTube channel uses the handle Neo-Orientalist and has a six-part series called “Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan Through American Eyes.”
The YouTuber, who spent three weeks in Afghanistan, is shown holding a machine gun in the footage and traveling around the county on a road trip.
North Sentinelese tribals are Black Asians. An estimate population is unknown but some believe there are 50 to 500 on the island.
I've said it before and I stand by what I say: "Wild animals are......well you know!"
Interacting with uncontacted people is dangerous. We'll, they are.... you know!"
If you want to be a thrill seeker, you might want to get life insurance.
