We compliment our selves on the good we are doing, then something like this crops up that negates all the good intentions.
Why have we not done anything? Security? Does that mean we don't make an effort to give them supplies.
Or, more importantly is this a one sided story by the MSM?
Afghan refugees forced home, but to what?
Updated Fri. Apr. 20 2007 10:54 AM ET Lisa LaFlamme, CTV News
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Daman District, Kandahar Province -- An open desert plain just off a road that Afghans now refer to as the "Bloody Highway," has become a dumping ground for displaced people, forced out of Pakistan by a mandatory repatriation order.
The deadline was April 15 and in the week that followed, 1,200 families have now crowded into a refugee camp in Daman District, just a 20-minute drive from Camp Nathan Smith (PRT), where Canadian Reconstruction Teams are deployed.
Refugees here, armed with ratty old rugs and a few thin blankets, have been forced home to an unwelcoming country still dominated by warlords, still crawling with foreign armies.
Inside the camp, the first thing that hits like a brick wall, is the stench of human waste and sickness, so strong that even those, who now call it home, cover their noses to protect against the pungent smell.
Children lie in clusters on the ground, seemingly lifeless, covered in flies and sick with diarrhea and fever. The camp doctor shakes his head, knowing with no medicine there is little he can do. He lost three children to disease in the first few days of their arrival.
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Why have we not done anything? Security? Does that mean we don't make an effort to give them supplies.
Or, more importantly is this a one sided story by the MSM?
Afghan refugees forced home, but to what?
Updated Fri. Apr. 20 2007 10:54 AM ET Lisa LaFlamme, CTV News
Article Link
Daman District, Kandahar Province -- An open desert plain just off a road that Afghans now refer to as the "Bloody Highway," has become a dumping ground for displaced people, forced out of Pakistan by a mandatory repatriation order.
The deadline was April 15 and in the week that followed, 1,200 families have now crowded into a refugee camp in Daman District, just a 20-minute drive from Camp Nathan Smith (PRT), where Canadian Reconstruction Teams are deployed.
Refugees here, armed with ratty old rugs and a few thin blankets, have been forced home to an unwelcoming country still dominated by warlords, still crawling with foreign armies.
Inside the camp, the first thing that hits like a brick wall, is the stench of human waste and sickness, so strong that even those, who now call it home, cover their noses to protect against the pungent smell.
Children lie in clusters on the ground, seemingly lifeless, covered in flies and sick with diarrhea and fever. The camp doctor shakes his head, knowing with no medicine there is little he can do. He lost three children to disease in the first few days of their arrival.
More on link
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