Friday, March 09, 2007
Kids Starve For 'Democracy' In Iraq & Afghanistan.
While Blair and Bush keep trying to convince us that life is so much better for the people of Afghanistan and Iraq since the violent occupations of their countries, children are dying for the want of a decent diet, despite billions of dollars in aid spent on the two countries.
Iraqi children suffer from high levels of malnourishment because of poverty and insecurity, with violence and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people making it very difficult for monthly food rations to reach those that need them most.
UNICEF say about one in ten children under five in Iraq are underweight and one in five are short for their age, which means that around 4.5 million children in the country are under-nourished.
In Afghanistan, where an average of 165 out of every 1,000 children born die within a year, and one in four do not live past the age of five, the Taliban offer food and money to recruit fighters to use against NATO forces - a sort of Save the Children Fund that reaches the parts Save the Children can’t reach.
Hungry kids, dead kids, don’t win hearts and minds.
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Iraqi children suffer from high levels of malnourishment because of poverty and insecurity, with violence and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people making it very difficult for monthly food rations to reach those that need them most.
UNICEF say about one in ten children under five in Iraq are underweight and one in five are short for their age, which means that around 4.5 million children in the country are under-nourished.
In Afghanistan, where an average of 165 out of every 1,000 children born die within a year, and one in four do not live past the age of five, the Taliban offer food and money to recruit fighters to use against NATO forces - a sort of Save the Children Fund that reaches the parts Save the Children can’t reach.
Hungry kids, dead kids, don’t win hearts and minds.
See all recent posts.
Labels: Afghanistan, Iraq, Poverty, War
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