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Indian island
police struggle
to recover body
of American
Trump rails against court,
migrants in call to troops
all branches of military happy holidays in annual call
SUSAN WALSH I Associated Press
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters Thursday, Nov. 22, following his teleconference
with troops from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla.
BY TIM SULLIVAN
Associated Press
NEW DELHI - Indian
authorities were struggling
Thursday to figure out how
to recover the body of an
American who was killed
after wading ashore on
an island cut off from the
modern world.
John Allen Chau
was killed last
week by North
Sentinel islanders
who apparently
shot him with
arrows and then
buried his body on
the beach, police
say.
But even offi
cials don’t travel to North
Sentinel, where people
live as their ancestors did
thousands of years ago,
and where outsiders are
seen with suspicion and
attacked.
“It’s a difficult propo
sition,” said Dependera
Pathak, director-general
of police on India’s Anda
man and Nicobar Islands,
where North Sentinel is
located. “We have to see
what is possible, taking
utmost care of the sensi
tivity of the group and the
legal requirements.”
Police are consulting
anthropologists, tribal
welfare experts and schol
ars to figure out a way to
recover the body, he said.
While visits to the island
are heavily restricted,
Chau paid fishermen last
week to take him near
North Sentinel, using a
kayak to paddle to shore
and bringing gifts includ
ing a football and fish.
It was “a foolish adven
ture,” said P.C. Joshi, an
anthropology professor at
Delhi University who has
studied the islands. “He
invited that aggression.”
Joshi noted that the visit
not only risked Chau’s life,
but also the lives of island
ers who have little resis
tance to many diseases.
“They are not immune
to anything. A simple thing
like flu can kill them,” he
said.
On his first day Chau
interacted with
some tribesmen
— who survive by
hunting, fishing
and collecting wild
plants — until they
became angry and
shot an arrow at
him. The 26-year-
old self-styled
adventurer and
Christian mission
ary then swam back to the
fishermen’s boat waiting at
a safe distance.
That night, he wrote
about his visit and left his
notes with the fishermen.
He returned to North Sen
tinel the next day, Nov. 16.
What happened then
isn’t known, but on the
morning of the follow
ing day, the fishermen
watched from the boat as
tribesmen dragged Chau’s
body along the beach and
buried his remains.
Pathak said seven peo
ple have been arrested for
helping Chau, including
five fishermen, a friend of
Chau’s and a local tourist
guide.
Chau was apparently
shot and killed by arrows,
but the cause of death can’t
be confirmed until his
body is recovered, Pathak
said.
He also said the police
were examining whether
Chau had tried earlier to
visit the isolated island.
Pathak said Chau and
his accomplices planned
well for last week’s visit by
“camouflaging the visit as
fishing.”
President wishes
BY JILL COLVIN
Associated Press
PALM BEACH, Fla. -
President Donald Trump
used a Thanksgiving Day call
to troops deployed overseas
to pat himself on the back
and air grievances about the
courts, trade and migrants
heading to the U.S.-Mexico
border.
Trump’s call, made from
his opulent private Mar-a-
Lago club, struck an unusu
ally political tone as he spoke
with members of all five
branches of the military to
wish them happy holidays.
“It’s a disgrace,” Trump
said of judges who have
blocked his attempts to over
haul U.S. immigration law, as
he linked his efforts to secure
the border with military mis
sions overseas.
Trump later threatened
to close the U.S. border with
Mexico for an undisclosed
period of time if his admin
istration determines Mexico
has lost “control” on its side.
The call was a uniquely
Trump blend of boasting,
questions and off-the-cuff
observations as his com
ments veered from vent
ing about slights to praising
troops — “You really are our
heroes,” he said — as club
waiters worked to set Thanks
giving dinner tables on the
outdoor terrace behind him.
And it was yet another show
of how Trump has dramati
cally transformed the presi
dency, erasing the traditional
divisions between domestic
policy and military matters
and efforts to keep the troops
clear of politics.
“You probably see over
the news what’s happening
on our southern border,”
Trump told one Air Force
brigadier general stationed
at Bagram Airfield in
Afghanistan, adding: “I don’t
have to even ask you. I know
what you want to do, you
want to make sure that you
know who we’re letting in.”
Trump also continued to
rail against the 9th U.S. Cir
cuit Court of Appeals, which
he said has become “a big
thorn in our side.”
“It’s a terrible thing,” he
said, when judges “tell you
how to protect your border.
It’s a disgrace.”
Later, Trump asked a U.S.
Coast Guard commander
about trade, which he noted
was “a very big subject” for
him personally.
“We’ve been taken advan
tage of for many, many years
by bad trade deals,” Trump
told the commander, who
sheepishly replied that, “We
don’t see any issues in terms
of trade right now.”
And throughout, Trump
was sure to congratulate him
self, telling the officers that
the county is doing exception
ally well on his watch.
“I hope that you’ll take sol
ace in knowing that all of the
American families you hold
so close to your heart are all
doing well,” he said. “The
nation’s doing well economi
cally, better than anybody
in the world.” He later said
“nobody’s done more for the
military than me. ”
Indeed, asked what he was
thankful for this Thanksgiv
ing, Trump cited his “great
family,” as well as himself.
“I made a tremendous
difference in this country,”
he said. “This country is so
much stronger now than it
was when I took office and
you wouldn’t believe it and
when you see it, we’ve got
ten so much stronger people
don’t even believe it.”
But Trump continued to
warn about the situation on
the southern border as he
took questions from report
ers, pointing to the cara
vans of Central American
migrants that have been
making their way toward
the U.S. and warning that, “If
we find that it gets to a level
where we lose control or
people are going to start get
ting hurt, we’re going to close
entry into the country for a
period of time until we get it
under control.”
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