More on the Andaman Islanders, in the Boston Globe: “One Indian newspaper reported this week that the Sentinelese and perhaps the other Negrito tribes (the Great Andamanese, Jarawa, and Onge) had been completely exterminated by the tsunami. That claim was quickly denied by India’s minister of defense, who said the aborigines had been hit hard, but survived. It was unclear, however, how much information the government really had, given the difficulty of communication with the islands.”