Get Robert Fisk on this!

(Via The Kerry Spot): The BBC reports that no good deed goes unpunished:

An Indian helicopter dropping food and water over the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands has been attacked by tribesmen using bows and arrows.

There were fears that the endangered tribal groups had been wiped out when massive waves struck their islands.

But the authorities say the attack is a sign that they have survived.

Good guess.

There was an article cited at the Tsunamihelp blog that it was feared that huge damage to the ecology of the Andamans had been caused by the tsunami. I thought that tsunamis were a part of the ecology, which was verified by material here. Apparently, there are mud vocanoes erupting in the area caused by the squeezing of mud between two geologic plates. The natives are a race of black pygmies, said to be among the most ancient and isolated primiitive societies on earth and typically greet visitors with arrows. Some of these islands are thought to have been split in the past by tsunamis, and new splitting may have occurred this time. They are not far from the epicenter of the quake which caused this tsunami. I suspect that the natives have some tribal wisdom that has helped them survive such things in the past without a modern electronic tsunami warning system.