>How firm -- dependable -- is this description (below) of the situation
>in Afghanistan. I'm tentatively planning on making it the core of a
>letter to the local newspaper (letter limit 300 words). And while I'm
>quite willing to be wrong, in fact believe it is crucial to push
>strongly enough that one risks being wrong, still I don't want to
>suggest the possibility of millions of deaths if it isn't going to come
>even close to that.
>
>Any comments?
Sarah Zaidi, research director of the Center for Economic & Social Rights <http://www.cesr.org> said on my radio show last week that the consensus of human rights and aids workers was that about 4 million were at risk in the coming months. They have several Afghanistan fact sheets on their web site.
Doug