Asian Congressman to BP exec: Commit hara-kiri

Criticism of BP PLC reached a new level Tuesday when a U.S. Congressman from Louisiana suggested the company's executives might consider killing themselves in the wake of the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, The Washington Post reported.

At a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing, Rep Joseph Cao (R-La.) said he wouldn't merely be satisfied by resignations, noting that in the past, responsible parties would have faced a worse fate.

"In the Asian culture we do things differently," Cao said to BP America CEO Lamar McKay, according to the Post.

"During the Samurai days, we'd just give you a knife and ask you to commit hara-kiri," he said, referring to Japanese ritual suicide.

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