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High Commissioner Calls for Halt to Bombing
The World Food Program estimates that
6 million Afghans will need massive amounts of wheat before winter.
International aid workers essentially cannot operate in the country,
while the bombings continue. Convoys of food trucks may be
accidentally bombed, as they were in Kosovo. Aid workers also fear
returning because the bombings are making people angry, and some
Afghans have beaten UN workers. On October 12, Mary Robinson, the UN
high commissioner for human rights, called for a halt to the bombing,
so that food can be delivered to the Afghani people quickly. In the
next few weeks, snow will fall in the mountain passes and make it
impossible for food trucks to get through. According to Dominic Nutt,
emergencies officer for Christian Aid, “Quite simply, the bombing must
stop as soon as possible…If this is not done (food is not delivered)
before the winter snows come, thousands-even hundreds of
thousands-will certainly die.”
—Ruth Wilson
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