The *real* casualties of current war

[Chris Kromm]

TIMES OF INDIA: As many as 100,000 Afghan children could die this winter
unless food reaches them in sufficient quantities over the next six weeks,
the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, warned. UNICEF spokesman Eric
Laroche said the organization needed 36 million dollars to carry out its
"bare emergency work" inside the country but so far had only received half
that amount. "If you are a child born in Afghanistan today, you are 25 times
more likely to die before the age of five than an American or a French or a
Saudi Arabian child." Laroche said more than half the children in
Afghanistan were already malnourished and 300,000 children died each year
from preventable causes inside the country. United Nations spokeswoman
Stephanie Bunker also described the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan as
"the most serious, complex emergency in the world ever."