Starving islanders kidnap (biryani-eating) officials

[KurtNYC]

The survivors from Great Nicobar Island spent four days without food before trekking through the jungle to the wrecked headquarters settlement at Campbell Bay.

When they arrived they discovered the island's assistant commissioner and deputy assistant of police eating a plate of biryani, witnesses said.
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I'm very angry," Suresh, 22, a welder from Great Nicobar Island, added. "We saw these people eating biryani. But we had nothing but rice soaked in saltwater."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tsunami/story/0,15671,1382441,00.html

Here is government in action! (or is it 'government inaction'?) The way it is written, it sounds like they literally walked in on them stuffing themselves.

And isn't 'biryani' actually rice or a rice dish?

[MsTryska]

1. Yes it's a rice dish.....

however it's a special occassion rice dish.


to put it in western terms, you're going through the woods, catching rats to eat, and finally get to the governor's house, and they're sitting down to prime rib for dinner.

[Solon]

2. Remember, they are theives and deserve to be shot /sarcasm n/t

[spooked911]

3. yes biryani is an Indian spiced rice dish (nt)

[maxsolomon]

4. everyone should starve themselves in sympathy

sheesh. did they ask if they could have some biryani before they went to the press?

i feel like biryani for lunch!

[MsTryska]

5. I think the point is that the AID that's being given

isn't actually trickling down to the masses, but the officials apparently are taking full advantage of said aid.


jsut liek they do in every 3rd world country it seems, from ethiopia to rwanda to sudan to apparently Great Nicobar Island.