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Kit Roberts
A man wrote a chilling letter to his family before he was killed while trying to convert an uncontacted community to Christianity.
It's believed that John Allen Chau, 27, bribed a local fisherman to illegally take him to North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean in November 2018.
Needless to say, the isolated Sentinelese community did not take kindly to his presence.
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Sadly, after making land Chau was believed to have been hit and killed by arrows, with police receiving reports of fishermen seeing his body being buried following his disappearance.
A police statement said: "The fishermen saw a dead person being buried at the shore which from the silhouette of the body, clothing and circumstances appeared to be the body of John Allen Chau."
Chau had expressed his intent to convert people living on the island to Christianity, referring to them as 'natives'.
In a letter he described how he wanted to 'declare Jesus to these people'.
On arrival on the island he wrote that he was 'doing this to establish the kingdom of Jesus on the island... Do not blame the natives if I am killed'.
He went to speak to his family, writing: "Please do not be angry at them or at God if I get killed.
"Rather please live your lives in obedience to whatever he has called you to and I'll see you again when you pass through the veil. This is not a pointless thing - the eternal lives of this tribe is at hand and I can't wait to see them around the throne of God worshiping in their own language as Revelations 7:9-10 states.
"I love you all and I pray none of you love anything in this world more than Jesus Christ."
In a statement, Chau's family said: "We recently learned from an unconfirmed report that John Allen Chau was reported killed in India while reaching out to members of the Sentinelese Tribe in the Andaman Islands.
"He loved God, life, helping those in need and had nothing but love for the Sentinelese people.
"We forgive those reportedly responsible for his death. We also ask for the release of those friends he had in the Andaman Islands."
The inhabitants of North Sentinel Island are extremely defensive of their island home, which is also protected under Indian law.
The law prohibits any boat from passing within 9.3km of the island, a measure which is intended to protect the island's population from infectious disease.