YouTube daredevil arrested by Indian authorities after visiting remote island where US missionary was killed

A daredevil YouTube influencer has been arrested aft visiting a distant Indian island, wherever helium tried to marque amerciable interaction with indigenous people, according to planetary reports.

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, of Arizona, allegedly traveled to the restricted North Sentinel Island, wherever helium tried to connection a coconut and tin of Diet Coke arsenic "offerings for the Sentinelese," The Andaman Chronicle and The Washington Post reported, citing section police.

Police successful Andaman and Nicobar Islands reportedly said helium visited the portion due to the fact that of "his passionateness for escapade and his tendency to undertake utmost challenges," constabulary said. It was seemingly his 3rd clip trying to marque the trip, according to The Post.

Polyakov was besides seemingly wearing a GoPro portable camera, showing him entering the island's enactment "claiming unofficial practice of the U.S.," constabulary said successful a statement.

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Satellite imagery of North Sentinel Island, which is 1 of the Andaman Islands, an Indian archipelago successful the Bay of Bengal. The land is simply a protected country of India that is location to the Sentinelese, an indigenous people successful voluntary isolation. (Satellite representation (c) 2024 Maxar Technologies.)

He stayed connected the land for astir 5 minutes, collecting samples and signaling video footage, but reportedly did not marque interaction with immoderate indigenous people. He past remained offshore successful a vessel for astir an hr earlier section fisherman saw him and contacted authorities, The Post and the Chronicle reported.

Polyakov, who goes by Neo-Orientalist connected YouTube, has a six-part video bid showing his travels done "Taliban-controlled Afghanistan."

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Contact with the Sentinelese radical is strictly prohibited owed to their protected indigenous mode of life, the Chronicle reported.

The Jarawas, a people of tiny negroids genetically akin to the South African bushmen, unrecorded connected the Andaman Islands, an archipelago stretching betwixt Burma and Indonesia successful the mediate of the Bay of Bengal (Indian Ocean). (Thierry Falise/LightRocket )

"We are getting much details astir him and his volition to sojourn the reserved tribal area. We are besides trying to find wherever other helium had visited during his enactment successful the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. We are questioning the edifice unit wherever helium was staying successful Port Blair," Hargobinder Singh Dhaliwal, manager wide of constabulary of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, said successful a connection to the Chronicle.

Caroline Pearce, manager of Survival International, a nonprofit seeking to assistance indigenous and tribal societies astir the world, called Polyakov's actions "deeply disturbing" and noted the decease of an American missionary who attempted to marque interaction with radical connected the land successful 2018.

Contact with the Sentinelese radical is strictly prohibited owed to their protected indigenous mode of life, The Andaman Chronicle reported. (Ed Reeve/View Pictures/Universal Images Group)

"The Sentinelese person made their privation to debar outsiders incredibly wide implicit the years – I’m definite galore retrieve the 2018 incidental successful which an American missionary, John Allen Chau, was killed by them aft landing connected their land to effort to person them to Christianity," Pearce said successful a statement. "It’s bully quality that the antheral successful this latest incidental has been arrested, but profoundly disturbing that helium was reportedly capable to get onto the land successful the archetypal place"

Pearce added that uncontacted indigenous peoples crossed the globe "are experiencing the penetration of their lands connected a shocking scale."

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"Countless uncontacted peoples successful the Amazon are being invaded by loggers and gold-miners. The uncontacted Shompen of Great Nicobar Island, not acold from North Sentinel, volition beryllium wiped retired if India goes up with its program to alteration their land into ‘the Hong Kong of India,’" Pearce continued. "The communal origin successful each these cases is governments’ refusal to abide by planetary instrumentality and admit and support uncontacted peoples’ territories."

Polyakov is presently successful judicial custody and has a proceeding scheduled for April 17, The Post reported.