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Want to heap coals of fire on your enemy
1. Don't kill any innocent people.
2. Give those responsible a fair trial.
3. Send a few hundred thousand tons of aid to Afghanistan.
World News
Afghanistan aid plea to prevent mass starvation
08.09.2001
The United Nations' World Food Programme appealed on Friday for $US151
million ($353.46 million) in emergency aid to save millions of people in
Afghanistan from starvation.
"There is evidence of widespread pre-famine conditions due to a severe food
crisis caused by the worst drought in decades and an armed conflict well
into its third decade," said Gerard van Dijk, World Food Programme's
representative to Afghanistan. "Without more food aid many lives could be in
danger," he said.
The United Nations has called Afghanistan a humanitarian catastrophe. As
many as 20 per cent of children in certain drought-affected districts died
before they are 5 and the average life expectancy was 40, the UN body said.
NS
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Haviland <BHaviland@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 13:52
Subject: OT Afganistan
>Hi,
>Been trying to educate myself a bit about Afghanistan. The country is in a
>dire strait after the war with Russia. Women in particular are at risk. The
>following link is to a poem written by a woman who founded a woman's rights
>movement. She was eventually killed by the KGB. In our eagerness to punish
>the terrorists I hope that we will not forget the lessons of Hitler's
>rise -- the severe and unremitting punishment of Germany for WWI led to
>conditions in Germany that made the people long for someone like Hitler to
>deliver them
> http://rawa.fancymarketing.net/ill.htm
>Horrible conditions can lead to someone who fights for human rights (like
at
>least at first glance it seems this woman was) or they can lead to
desperate
>people with little regard for innocent life. Not an excuse for what was
>done, but looking to understand a human being who would do such a thing --
>to say that they are not human is a fantasy as any casual look at history
>will prove.
>Killing lots of terrorists, while satisfying in a basic sort of
>eye-for-an-eye way, may not solve our problem if the breeding grounds of
>desperate acts continue. Need to differentiate between terrorists,
>governments
>that support them, and the people which may not support their government.
>Don't think there's any easy solution.
>Here's some info on Bin Laden
>http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/12/binladen.profile/index.html
>
>Brian
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