John Chau, 27, was killed on North Sentinel Island earlier this month by a tribe he was hoping to spread the word of God among
The Christian group which sent the American missionary to the island where he was killed by a protected tribe insisted on Wednesday that he would have gone to there with or without their help and had been planning the trip since he was a teenager.
John Chau, 27, was killed when he approached North Sentinel Island earlier this month. He was trying to spread the word of God to the Sentinelese people who have lived separately from society for 30,000 years.
Chau had paid local Indian fishermen to take him as far as he could then he kayaked towards the island himself. His body is still there and police are yet to determine how they will get it back.
On Wednesday, All Nations, the Kansas City missionary group he was a part of, eschewed responsibility for his death.
Its leader, Mary Ho, said he had paid for the trip himself, had been planning it for years and was 'very well prepared', implying that he knew the risks of venturing towards the island.
'He was just emotionally, culturally, physically, intellectually very, very well prepared.
'He was a young man who, from the time he was about 18 years old, went on a mission trip and knew that he was called to be a missionary.
'Even as a young man, before we met him, every decision he made, every step he took, was to share the love of God with the North Sentinelese.
'Knowing John, he would have pursued this calling no matter what,' she told The Kansas City Star.
Her message echoes the one Chau give his parents in a letter home before he made the fateful journey.
He told them not to blame the tribe if they killed him and that he believed the risk of losing his life was worth it. Ho told how Chau kept a diary to prepare for the mission.
Chau was representing All Nations, a missionary group based in Kansas City, Kansas. He had been training with them for a year and its leader, Mary Ho (pictured center in white) said he was 'well prepared' for the journey
Chau was killed by the Sentinelese people who local fishermen say they saw drag his body across the island. They have lived independently for 30,000 years
The Sentinelese tribe are an indigenous tribe who live on North Sentinal Island, lies around 450 miles from the coast of Thailand and more than 745 miles from mainland India
'He was trained to be prudent, to take certain precautions, to understand culture, to understand languages, to understand what others have done before that may have worked,' she said.
He met the group more than a year before he made the journey.
Other groups are now urging Indian police not to try to recover his body.
Not only is it clearly dangerous for anyone to approach the island, but if they do get onto it they risk exposing the tribe to pathogens to which they have no immunity because they have lived independently for so long.
In a statement earlier this week, the group Survivor International, said: 'It’s not impossible that the Sentinelese have just been infected by deadly pathogens to which they have no immunity, with the potential to wipe out the entire tribe.
'The Sentinelese have shown again and again that they want to be left alone, and their wishes should be respected.
'The British colonial occupation of the Andaman Islands decimated the tribes living there, wiping out thousands of tribespeople, and only a fraction of the original population now survive.
Chau, according to the missionary group he was working with, knew he wanted to spread the word of God when he was 18
'So the Sentinelese fear of outsiders is very understandable,' the group said in a statement.
Indian authorities have already filed a murder case against the tribe and they are holding some of the fishermen who helped Chau get there on other charges.
His family in Washington State has urged them to release the fishermen, claiming their son's death was no one's fault but his own.
DailyMail.com obtained a letter Chau wrote to his parents he penned prior to his death that detailed how he was committed to teaching the tribe about Jesus
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John Chau, 27, was killed on North Sentinel Island earlier this month by a tribe he was hoping to spread the word of God among
The Christian group which sent the American missionary to the island where he was killed by a protected tribe insisted on Wednesday that he would have gone to...
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