Children of Afghan Refugees Are Dying From the Cold As Kabul Ignores Their Plight
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.
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.
We're bringing them a heaping dose of de-mock-racy.
What else do they want?
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
While we bring this so-called democracy to the middle east country and destroy our economy , military and democracy in the fake event,,,,,
China is walking into the doors we have open with multi trillion dollars spend from our country... And has received the oil contracts in Iraq and the Ore contracts in Afghanistan along with the rights to build pipe lines through their country to take it...
Are we ever smart or are we..
We have built China economical empire to the heights which we once was ,,, While destroying our along with our military , manufacturing plants , jobs and freedom...
But , his total destruction only happen to the little person , the Global Empires have receive our money on a credit card so they could buy into the foreign countries to keep their wealth..
We are renters in our country and our store have become warehouses and selling places for China and the rest of the world goods...
Our governement has even made " buy America" a wrong them to say...
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are doing so well at our expense.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Bush's 'base' have enslaved the World.
everyone is so good at bitching but, maybe it is time we get off our duffs and do something about it.
Why don't we organize, send blankets and such to some place and have them shipped to the kids.
I have extra blankets and I will send them where ever.
We talk talk talk. bitch bitch bitch. But, we expect it to take care of what we don't like. Well, if it is something we can do something about, then get off our duffs and do it.
Let's send these blankets somewhere and help these kids
so we're not killing all of them with drones. as long as the ruskies can't build that pipeline, it must be worth it. just ask mcKKKrystal.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Don't our military work for..
They send our military to protect Saudi Arabia in the Gulf war.
They send our military back to Iraq for the OIL war and just who receives the oil contracts China and Britain..
They send our military into Afghanistan for the gas pipe lines and who received them ,,, Russia and China receives their Ore deal and the rights to build their pipe line to take it out...
We kill our soldiers and destroy our economy and these rest of the world receives the goods and resources to build their country economy and power...
Why are we not demonstrating in very large numbers....
Has the Government and these Global Empires broken our spirits'
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along with the media who have equated any truth-telling or constitutional justice with nazism.
Some stuff you can't make up!
both your comments
Because our free press has been suborned, bought out and taken over by the forces of shortsighted evil and greed. The internet is starting to take on the Press' job and duty, but the same selfish groups are already making an effort to destroy our free internet.
Dubai is a destination, on par with their beloved Las Vegas.
that Dubai is going down the financial crapper.
That is where Halliburton and Blackwater have moved their headquaters so they do not pay taxes to US ,,, on the money they have stolen from us , with the blessing of ?our? government...
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with the blessing of FOX, Limpballs, Reverend Moon and the rest of the plantation owners...
And this is Obama's dilemma - he can't just walk away leaving that country in tatters but where is the middle ground?
Barack is saying sending 34,000 more troops IS the middle ground.
UGH!
War SUX - big time. Worse for them than us but plenty bad for us too!
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
How many does that leave on home ground? 16,000?
about 3 (/snark off!)
I get your point too... it's insane and time to stop both wars that America started. There's no win in either of them and it's time to rebuild the country. Seriously, tax the rich and feed the poor!
This leaves Blackwater and Halliburton their contractors and mercenary army which has no laws to hold them down...
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This country no longer give a d... about the citizens of this county. So what makes you believe they give a d... about citizens in other countries..
The only time this government shows as if they have concerns for others ,, is when there is something to be gained for them or their Corporate friends and then they are care by buying them with our tax money..
We are the only industrial country which does not have health care for everyone and at an affordable price if they wish it.. Then the government lets private health monopolies decide what they wish to create for their health policy to force US to pay for..
We no longer have a government which is concern for the American worker , senior or poor.... The basis which this country was build on no longer exist.. Power of , for and by the people has become a fair tale..
The elite , Global monopolies and elected officials have made their fortune with the power they received when we elected them to office... And be d... if they give it up for the likes of US>.
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"Ahh, hey dere Rush y'all git Kathy Lee Gippard on der phone and git a coupla ob dem Walmart sweat shops rollin' in Kabul..."
Rush Limpballs: "(slurp) ah... ah... how old are these kids, Mr. Prednit? (slurrrp) an can dey libb on cookies an milk"?
Resignations in Germany over NATO Coverup
Afghanistan Airstrike - NATO Tried To Cover-Up Civilian Deaths
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JBeZUwhAqM
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much!
Some stuff you can't make up!
Thank you for that.
The German chief of staff resigned over the tragic affair. Unfortunately in our barbaric society we carry right on, and the barbarians link to mindless music videos as if that could be somehow apropos to a story of the death of innocents.
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This is how counterinsurgency works, you starve everyone till they turn on each other, it not pretty, but that’s how it works. Read the instruction on counterinsurgency.
It's called a war of attrition.
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Funny thing embargoes share a lot of features with wars of attrition.
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That's funny coming from somebody who a few months ago was hoping a comet would hit Washington DC, and kill everyone there, presumably also including the homeless, the workers and their children.
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Haven't we all, at one time or another, wished a giant meteor would wipe out Washington D.C.? Or at least the Senate?
Well when the space critters zapped the White House in Independence Day, I hear it got a big hand.
I wouldn't know though, since I didn't see it.
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Canadian diplomat Richard Colvin has been making the news here:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/11/25/col...
and
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/11/26/joya...
We need more whistleblowers like Mr Colvin.
Humanitarianism's fer filthy liberals! We just haven't dropped enough bombs yet!
These are people real republicans only care about sperm, eggs, and the fetus they could care less what happens after they are born.
prison labor makes big money.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness that is killing America!
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official has ever come to see how they have been forced to live."
Great, just great. We go over there to save them from the boogy man and now they want a handout after we've already saved them.
Damn Socialists.
Buck up, man. Stand for yourself and embrace the role of rugged individualist beating back the odds with fierce heart, determination, and that never-say-die American grit.
We'll do a story about you on Fox News and make you Person of the Year.
Certainly you've learned that's our expectation of you after we bomb your country and force you to flee your home.
Jeez. Some people.
I hope that Obama is aware of your point of view.
I certainly share it.
I would love to feel proud what what we're doing instead of cringing at the thought of it.
This opinion writer, and most of her posts, reminds me of this 5 second clip from the Simpsons:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh2sWSVRrmo&fe...
We'll know how bad things are getting when credible arguments can be made that the country was better off under Soviet occupation than it is now.
what I (we) can do to help? Which agencies are most effective in supplying clothing, food, shelter to the victims of our Corporate Overlords?
of those private relief groups keep up to 90% of the donations they receive an pay no taxes.
The Salvation Army is an "Accountant Army" like Rev. Moon's empire.
Others 'steal' outright.
Be careful who you donate to.
-but I've always heard good things about Salvation Army efforts in disaster areas. I don't suppose they'd go to Afghanistan, though.
... the Taliban will help them.
Way to win "hearts and minds", Hamid!
collect blankets, coats, gloves, ect. and send them somewhere to have them shipped there for the children.
Fix your broken shit first.
The mighty o will take care of them. 34,000 troops will solve the problem. We will be the first occupiers in history to defeat...whatever it is we are defeating this year
hooooray, War is awesome and manly.
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