[PilateDeGuerre]

Good for these thieves choosing illegality over starvation. But looting a shop in the night is a very individual solution to what is afterall a very widespread collective problem.

The question in my mind after reading this article is: in a country rife with corruption and starvation, why are mass expropriations of food i.e. food riots not more common?

[yashg]

The thieves most probably weren't starving. Because you can't eat raw onions alone and you don't need 260 kg of that. It was stolen with the intent of selling the onions in the market and make a quick buck.