Internally Displaced Afghans and Imminent Death

As always, Afghans have to pay with their lives for some body else's "democracy" aimed at making the powerful in Washington DC even richer. So it is not unusual to see Afghan families forced to abandon their villages and run for their lives. They salvage only the cloths on their back along with whoever remained alive and bury the ones killed by these arrogant enforcers of "democracy".

So, the following story is typical of Pashtun families in Afghan villages that are victimized by the indiscriminate bombing of US, had to pay with their lives before getting to so called safety of Kabul. Large number of families from Helmand province embarked on a journey to the vicinity of Kabul after losing many family members to the US bombing in their respective villages. They used their meager resources to pay for their trip and acquire some thick fabric and plastic to serve as makeshift tents. After they arrived and settled in an open field with no possession of their own, no drinking water and nothing to keep them warm, they encountered disaster on the first night in their new enclave. Over night, five children ages, two to five lost their lives due to cold and hunger. The children had nothing to eat for two days. Once extremely cold weather added to their desperate situation the child. More