In our minds, killing people to pay for their lives, debt repayment is a matter of course, whether it is the law of our country or the laws of other countries in the world, killing is undoubtedly one of the unforgivable felonies, even in those countries that have banned the death penalty, killing people also requires extremely high sentences, but can you imagine that in this civilized society there is still a place where killing can not be broken? It is the North Sentinel Island, the protagonist of our article.
The picture shows North Sentinel Island
This is an extralegal land, it is located in the Bay of Bengal, belonging to one of the Andaman Islands, according to the division of the country, this small island belongs to the jurisdiction of India, but the laws of India can not bind the residents of this small island, although nominally Indian land, but with India across the sea, the local people are closed in communication and backward technology, they do not even know that there is India, let alone understand the laws of India, obey the discipline of India.
The remote location, which led to little contact with modern humans and little understanding of the development of modern society, led to their particular exclusion and their population was also particularly small, with only 400 indigenous people on this small island, and scientists called them Sentinels.
According to scientists, their ancestors were most likely Homo sapiens from Africa, but due to changes in plate movement, the island began to gradually isolate from the mainland, allowing the island's inhabitants to form a unique community.
Due to the lack of contact with the outside world, their technical level is extremely backward, so let alone what industry and technology there is on the island, and also due to the narrow geographical area, they have not even developed agriculture and aquaculture, and still rely on traditional hunting for a living, still maintain a primitive style, and still use stone weapons for hunting.
And such a small island, how did modern humans find these people on The North Sentinel Island? We'll turn back time to 1867, the first contact with the Sentinels by modern humans. In 1867, during the period of British colonial expansion, the East India Company's ship ran aground on North Sentinel Island, and the 100 crew members on board boarded the island for repairs, which led to the first contact with these primitive people.
But the first contact did not take place pleasantly, for to the primitives of Northern Sentinel Island, the crew was a whole new species, a seemingly ill-intentioned species, and so they launched a fierce attack on the crew of the ship, a battle that lasted for three days and three nights, until the crew of the East India Company was rescued by a passing British naval ship, and they were rescued from danger.
But this discovery also brought a senseless disaster to the local indigenous people, because the British colonial policy at that time was like a dog peeing, finding a piece of land that no one occupied, marking it like a dog, and declaring that this was a British colony, belonging to British territory, and in 1880 Britain sent an officer to station here as a local governor to rule the island.
The British takeover of the island did not bring advanced civilization to the island, but brought endless suffering, and many of the local natives were kidnapped and sold to other areas by slave traders. At the same time, due to the long-term isolation from the mainland, their immune systems cannot adapt to the pathogens of the mainland, and many viruses that are considered easy to treat on the mainland can easily kill the people of the Northern Sentinel. This also led to the local residents particularly hating the British government, so they also launched a counterattack, but how could the bows and spears they made be the opponents of the British Navy's strong ships and guns, although they could not be defeated, but the beams of the two had been formed.
Three prisoners escaped from prison in 1896, and the three prisoners, not knowing whether to say lucky or unlucky, after escaping from the prison with difficulty, drifted at sea in a small boat, but two of them drowned, and the only fugitive successfully drifted to North Sentinel Island. But if this person had to choose again, it is estimated that he would most likely choose to die in the sea, because after drifting here, the Northern Sentinels brutally killed him.
When other Britons found him, he had become a corpse with multiple scratches and slits in his throat, and if this was the last century, and the laws were not sound and excusable, then in 2006, Indian fishermen were also killed when they docked near Sentinel Island.
But what laws and governance can be discussed on such a pristine island? Now there is not even a modern human being, let alone a murderer to be found to sentence him, so this is also called the forbidden land of modern civilization, not to say that the criminal suspect is not convicted, but because there is no way to catch the offender and bring him to justice. Since it cannot be governed, let the local people not go to this island. In 1996, India enacted a law prohibiting others from approaching North Sentinel Island. Even so, there are many people who are not afraid of death, trying to get close to North Sentinel Island.
Alan Zhou, a missionary from the United States, who did not believe in evil, felt that since the law could not restrain these barbarians, let me impress them with great Christianity. So he hired fishermen from the Indian Sea, bypassed the Indian Coast Guard, and landed on The North Sentinel Island, hoping to use the power of religion to make these barbarians submit to Christ.
But the ideal is very full, the reality is very bone, these sentinels, can not even understand English, how can they preach to them? The Bible read to them may be the most reasonable word in the ears of the missionaries, but in the eyes of these people it is likely to be the whisper of the devil. So on the second day that American missionary Alan Zhou landed on North Sentinel Island, his body was buried on the beach on North Sentinel Island. This time there was no God to save him, because it was a cultural forbidden land where civilization, law, and religion could not spread.
For the inhabitants of North Sentinel Island, we do not know whether such a separation is good or bad for them, the isolated environment has kept them away from colonization, away from the vigorous colonial oppression at that time, they are like orphans abandoned by the earth, but at the same time, for them, this island is not their peach blossom source.
For us, we must see the other side of the matter, when a place is not bound by law and morality, how bad it will become, we must take this island as a lesson and cherish the current civilized society.