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Re: Looks like the attacks on Kabul have started
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Tue, 9 Oct 2001 07:33:14 GMT
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> At least the immediate plans include a
> massive perfusion of aid to refugees, so that's a start.
I thought this was good too. But then I read this last night:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4272513,00.html
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Will Day, chief executive of Care International, said yesterday: "Air drops
make great TV but they often represent a failure to respond to a food crisis."
Barbara Stocking, Oxfam's director, said all aid should be channelled
through the UN "to be seen as impartial and separate from military action.
Trucking of food is cheaper and is tried and tested. Air drops are risky,
random, expensive, and likely to meet only a fraction of the need. Aid
workers would be put in a difficult position if food aid came to be viewed
as part of a military effort".
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It looks dropping like this may just be a token effort to appease people
like you and I back home. :\
Scott A
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| (...) Ask a few Berliners about the effectiveness of aerial delivery of relief supplies... If you read anything at all about the air drops, you would find two things: 1. They are not expected to be the sole delivery mechanism 2. They are targetted (...) (23 years ago, 9-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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