Thanks to the ruthless decade-long war, children in Afghanistan suffer one of the highest levels of chronic malnutrition in the world, according to a report released Monday by the World Bank and the government.
More than half of Afghan children under the age of five go hungry, the report said, despite billions of dollars in aid that has come into the country over the years.
One of the reasons the aid hasn’t helped is because much of it is wasted or goes through the hands of corrupt Afghan officials. Another reason, mentioned by the report, is because “foreign assistance has disproportionally gone to the provinces where concentration of troops and fighting has been heaviest,” said Josephine Bassinette of the World Bank. “But the analysis in this report shows that poverty and food insecurity rates are actually higher in the more peaceful provinces,” she said.
Starvation of children is only one measure of the savage, unnecessary U.S. war in Afghanistan. Last month, Amnesty International found that an average of four hundred people are displaced in every day in Afghanistan, bringing the total displaced population to approximately 500,000.
Amnesty Afghanistan researcher Horia Mosadiq said: “Thousands of people are finding themselves living in freezing, cramped conditions and on the brink of starvation, while the Afghan government is not only looking the other way but even preventing help from reaching them.”
The U.S. continues to make no progress in its failed effort to stabilize Afghanistan and build a reliable client state. Rates of violence continue to hit record highs and civilian casualties have risen for every 6 month period since the surge in 2009.
This is yet another abomination brought about by our out of touch politicians and their sycophantic hangers on. Seems that wherever Uncle Sam puts his boots down only a trail of death follows.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the head of NATO is a lier and head of the Neo Fascism in Europe. This man and rest of his colleagues like Sarkozi/ Markel and the entire Swedish – Danish government are nothing but butchers using their lies from Iraq to Afghanistan to Libya and Syria justifying their wars by again lying. NATO were not supposed to use any force or bombing in Libya, they were supposed to enforce the NO FLY ZONE in case of Libyan government wanted to use its air force bombing Ben Ghazi, look at the result in Libya and what they have created in Libya is their version in democracy.
Now look ate their “humanitarian" work in Afghanistan and what its resulted to, more people are going hungry and killed by these Neo Fascist regimes then ever before. Although one need to say that: children going hungry is not only exist in Afghanistan, is a matter of USA where every one out of 7 kids have nothing to eat. That is capitalism – militarism regimes at work producing fascism and hunger.
Shame on us to have this ongoing war, we are back in the cave age, no compassion, no mercy for anyone else but our little selves. We want to give lessons to others on how to live ? Give me a break!!!
This report flies in the face of the lies put out that if we "leave" Afghanistan the people will suffer more.
The US military isn't planted in their country for humanitarian concerns but strictly for military dominance and control, and it infuriates me when people try to make it seem otherwise.
Why don't we just leave Afghanistan. Nothing good will come from our being there. Bin Laden is dead. His organization is scattered. There is no reason for us to be there.
So child hunger in Afghanistan just started? Truth is, no they have been hungry for decades and would you like to know why? I’ll tell you anyway. It is because the Afghans have been in a constant state of war for decades. Yes decades. Whether the British, Soviets or Americans, no one along with the UN and the plague of do-gooders in the world will ever leave these people with any PEACE. They can’t forge their own way, they can’t do anything without these sh-tbags hanging over their head!
Just once I wish I were the supreme ruler and you asked me to help them, I would wipe them out and ask you; who you would like me to help next?