Aid Group Fears Over 1,000 Afghan Child Deaths (bush* bin-forgotten WAR)

[diamond14]

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=FF-RTO-PLS&idq=/ff/story/0002/20050218/1234253717.htm&photoid=20050208KAB06D

Aid Group Fears Over 1,000 Afghan Child Deaths

By David Brunnstrom

KABUL (Reuters) - More than 1,000 Afghan children may have died of cold-related illnesses in a snow-bound Afghan province and the toll could rise if more relief supplies are not sent quickly, an international aid group said on Friday.



Maarten Roest, spokesman for the U.N.'s World Food Programme, said it was seeking the help of the U.S. military to fly in 20 tonnes of emergency food supplies each to Shahrak and Tulak.


He said trucks carrying of 140 tonnes of food had been unable to reach the districts because of heavy snow.


"We are trying to find out where food is needed and how we can get it there as quickly as possible," he said. "This is a very severe winter where the food needs of people at risk are rising."

[Igel]

1. Some maps.

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/afghan.zoom.html for the political map of the country. "Ghor" apparently also has the spelling "Ghowr".

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/map.ethnic.afghan.html for the ethnic makeup

Ghowr province is apparently a bit Hazara and "other", neither of which were friendly to the Taliban, and received no friendship in return; they get little attention from anybody. Maybe Iran cares a bit, if they're Shi'a.

I hope the US airdrops the food.

[Robb]

2. Given the way Iran's getting painted in the U.S.

...I'm not sure even humanitarian aid from Iran would be helpful in the long run. "...received unmarked shipments from Iran."

Thank goodness everything's finished up nicely in Afghanistan, so we don't have to talk about it in the news anymore. :eyes:

[struggle4progress]

3. Afghans Request Human Rights Review

When should war criminals be brought to justice?

Now 44.9%
Within two years 25.5%
From two to five years 18.8%
More than five years 8.4%

Do you think that bringing war criminals to justice in the near future would...

Increase the stability of the peace and bring security to Afghanistan 76.4%
Decrease the stability of the peace and threaten security in Afghanistan 7.6%

What does justice mean to you?

Punishment of those responsible by a court 49.1%
Reconciliation of divided communities 20.2%
Compensation for victims of human rights violations 15.2%
Publication of the truth about the past 8.5%

Source: Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission
Methodology: Face-to-face interviews with 4,151 Afghan adults, and focus group interviews with 2,308 Afghan adults, conducted from January 2004 to August 2004. No margin of error was provided.

http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=48972&src=0

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