Children of Afghan Refugees Are Dying From the Cold As Kabul Ignores Their Plight

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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Children of Afghan Refugees Are Dying From the Cold As Kabul Ignores Their Plight
By Susie Madrak Friday Nov 27, 2009 2:00pm

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/children-afghan-refugees-are-dying-co

Wouldn't it make a lot more sense for us to focus only on the humanitarian aid instead of bombing them? Yeah, I know there are huge logical challenges - but are the challenges any worse than they are for trying to win a war?

div class="excerpt"]Afghan refugees who fled the war-torn south have claimed they are so neglected by government in Kabul that their children are dying from hypothermia for want of the most basic supplies.

Families that left Helmand, Kandahar and other southern provinces to escape the fighting between US-led forces and a resurgent Taliban say the cold is much more lethal.

Living in a make-shift camp on the edge of Kabul, residents told Al Jazeera's James Bays that no government official has ever come to see how they have been forced to live.

The claim comes as UN officials say Afghan children are suffering disastrous levels of abuse and deprivation.

At a news conference marking the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child this week, officials said children’s rights were being neglected despite vast flows of Western aid into the country.

“Afghanistan has the highest infant mortality rate in the world," said Catherine Mbengue, country representative for the UN children’s fund Unicef.

“Seventy per cent of the population has no access to safe drinking water. Thirty percent of children are involved in child labour. Forty-three per cent of girls are married under-age,” she said.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

1. Unacceptable and unnecessary

hardship on a people sruggling to stay alive.

K&R for visibility

[snagglepuss]

2. +1

[slipslidingaway]

3. knr nt

[thegoodfight]

4. this

just sickens me...thankyou america, for making the situation 100 times worse in afghanistan. absolutely sickening .............

[Turborama]

5. Afghanistan: Famine Threatens 1 Million People (February 22, 2001)

"100 times worse"? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4201322772364661561&ei=zL8MS_a9JJS8wgOVlfykBg&q=beneath+the+veil&hl=en#">I don't think so.


Afghanistan: Famine Threatens 1 Million People

By Pamela Constable
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, February 22, 2001; Page A01

NEW DELHI, Feb. 21 -- Nearly three-quarters of a million displaced Afghans are struggling to survive freezing temperatures in refugee camps with scarce supplies in various parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan, prompting the United Nations to warn that many face imminent death unless drastic steps are taken to alleviate their misery.

An estimated 500,000 homeless people are huddled in frozen camps in western and northern Afghanistan, according to U.N. officials. Another 180,000 have crossed into Pakistan, where many are being housed in camps in that country's rugged northwest. In addition, relief officials say, an unknown number of other displaced Afghans may be wandering their country without food or shelter, or struggling with the effects of drought and economic hardship at home.

© 2001 The Washington Post Company
http://www.globalhealth.org/news/article/821

[sattahipdeep]

6. These old men they make them dirty deals

Put mother nature on a luncheon plate
They cut her up and call it real estate
Want all the resources and all of the land
They make a war over it
Blow rigs up for it

Buffy Sainte Marie - No No Keshagesh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vGoAI5bb1g

[girl_interrupted]

7. Amerigo Vespucci I wish you had made this an OP in GD P

I just finished reading this on Crooks and Liars:

"Wouldn't it make a lot more sense for us to focus only on the humanitarian aid instead of bombing them? Yeah, I know there are huge logistical challenges - but are the challenges any worse than they are for trying to win a war?

Afghan refugees who fled the war-torn south have claimed they are so neglected by government in Kabul that their children are dying from hypothermia for want of the most basic supplies. Families that left Helmand, Kandahar and other southern provinces to escape the fighting between US-led forces and a resurgent Taliban say the cold is much more lethal.

Living in a make-shift camp on the edge of Kabul, residents told Al Jazeera's James Bays that no government official has ever come to see how they have been forced to live. The claim comes as UN officials say Afghan children are suffering disastrous levels of abuse and deprivation."


http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/children-afghan-refugees-are-dying-co

Unbelievably sad. I'd go for the humanitarian aid instead of bombing.

[ensho]

8. kick

nt