Aid to Indian islands 'hijacked'

[Rink]

Aid to Indian islands 'hijacked'

Red Cross officials have accused the authorities in India's tsunami-struck Andaman and Nicobar Islands of "hijacking" aid supplies.

A spokesman for the agency said relief materials seized on the islands had been found with government workers.

Island officials have not commented on the charge but stress their policy that foreign aid to the islands only be distributed through the government.

Aid has yet to reach remote parts of many islands, a BBC correspondent says.

More than 1,800 people are now known to have died on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands after sea surges triggered by a massive underwater earthquake struck there on 26 December.

At least a further 5,600 people are still missing after the disaster, the Andaman and Nicobar administrative chief, Ram Kapse, said.

The official death toll in India, including the islands and mainland parts of Tamil Nadu state, now stands at 10,672.

More on this Story (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4172035.stm)

[Wolfcounsel]

"A spokesman for the agency said relief materials seized on the islands had been found with government workers." --from the link posted by Rink


Something tells me those "government workers" are going to try to do a profitable business with those hijacked supplies.

[Rink]

Isnt doin such things with aid relief supplies a 'human rights violation'????

And if so why is there no peep from all the human rights groups about the lack of help and pilfering of aid resources by the government officials then for?

[Wolfcounsel]

"...why is there no peep from all the human rights groups about the lack of help and pilfering of aid resources..." --Rink


Scumbags tend to stick together, I believe.

[Rink]

I guess so.

[Beowulf]

Um...why are we still over there trying to help the ungreatful?

[Rink]

Because everyone and his pet rock henpecked us into doing so beo, thats why.

Every liberal guttersnipe on the planet whined and screeched "You arent acting fast enough!! You didnt give enough! You didnt move in fast enough to help those poor brown people!!!"

So we acted, we gave and we moved in fast and this is our thanks for doin so.