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19 de febrer del 2010
14 de febrer del 2003
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En el New York Times de hoy: 17 civiles afganos (entre ellos, mujeres y niños), asesinados en un bombardeo norteamericano
En fin, que NO a la guerra. ¿Lo dejaremos claro el 15 (mañana)?
Afghans Report 17 Civilians Killed in Allied Air Raids
By CARLOTTA GALL
ABUL, Afghanistan, Feb.12 — Afghan officials said today that 17 civilians, including women and children, had been killed in an American-led bombing of a mountainous region of southern Afghanistan, where United States Special Forces have been fighting rebels since Monday.
The fighting began when the Special Forces were attacked in an ambush and called in coalition planes to bomb the area.
Col. Roger King, the United States military spokesman, said that the Special Forces battled about 25 rebels who had been spotted taking up offensive positions around midday Tuesday, and that the Americans had captured 12 men near the village of Lejay.
He reported no American or coalition casualties and said he had no information about civilian casualties. But the civilian toll appears to have been heavy.
An aide to the governor of Helmand Province, where the fighting was going on, said villagers had reported to the authorities that 17 civilians, including women and children, had been killed.
"The people came crying, saying their relatives had died or were missing," the aide, Haji Muhammad Wali, said by telephone from Helmand's capital, Lashkar Gah, Reuters reported.
The fighting has been concentrated in Baghran, a mountainous region in the north of the province. Baghran has been a source of concern for the United States military tracking movements of suspected rebels.
g u e r r a
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En el New York Times de hoy: 17 civiles afganos (entre ellos, mujeres y niños), asesinados en un bombardeo norteamericano
En fin, que NO a la guerra. ¿Lo dejaremos claro el 15 (mañana)?
Afghans Report 17 Civilians Killed in Allied Air Raids
By CARLOTTA GALL
ABUL, Afghanistan, Feb.12 — Afghan officials said today that 17 civilians, including women and children, had been killed in an American-led bombing of a mountainous region of southern Afghanistan, where United States Special Forces have been fighting rebels since Monday.
The fighting began when the Special Forces were attacked in an ambush and called in coalition planes to bomb the area.
Col. Roger King, the United States military spokesman, said that the Special Forces battled about 25 rebels who had been spotted taking up offensive positions around midday Tuesday, and that the Americans had captured 12 men near the village of Lejay.
He reported no American or coalition casualties and said he had no information about civilian casualties. But the civilian toll appears to have been heavy.
An aide to the governor of Helmand Province, where the fighting was going on, said villagers had reported to the authorities that 17 civilians, including women and children, had been killed.
"The people came crying, saying their relatives had died or were missing," the aide, Haji Muhammad Wali, said by telephone from Helmand's capital, Lashkar Gah, Reuters reported.
The fighting has been concentrated in Baghran, a mountainous region in the north of the province. Baghran has been a source of concern for the United States military tracking movements of suspected rebels.
5 de febrer del 2003
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Read it in BBC news - world edition
Wednesday, 29 January, 2003, 09:55 GMT
War 'has ruined Afghan environment'
Snow leopards and other species suffer as well as people
By Alex Kirby
BBC News Online environment correspondent
Two decades of war have laid waste Afghanistan's environment so badly that its reconstruction is now compromised, the United Nations says.
A UN Environment Programme (Unep) survey found more than half of Kabul's water supply is going to waste.
In urban areas the most basic necessity for human wellbeing - safe water - may be reaching as few as 12% of the people
Unep's Post-Conflict Assessment Unit
It found children working 12-hour shifts in dangerous factories, and sleeping at their machines.
More than half the forests in three Afghan provinces have been destroyed in 25 years.
A team from Unep's Post-Conflict Assessment Unit worked with the Afghanistan Transitional Authority to carry out the survey.
It involved 20 Afghan and foreign scientists in visits to 38 urban sites in four cities, and to 35 rural sites.
Basic resources
The team's report says the years of conflict have led to the "collapse of local and national governance, destroyed infrastructure, hindered agricultural activity and driven people into cities already lacking the most basic public amenities".
It says: "Three to four years of drought have compounded a state of widespread and serious resource degradation: lowered water tables, dried-up wetlands, denuded forests, eroded land and depleted wildlife populations."
Children are at special risk
Two million refugees returned to Afghanistan last year, and 1.5m more are expected in 2003, putting further strains on the country and its natural resources.
Dr Klaus Toepfer, Unep's executive director, said the report showed environmental restoration must be a major part of Afghanistan's reconstruction.
He said: "Over 80% of Afghan people live in rural areas, yet they have seen many of their basic resources - water for irrigation, trees for food and fuel - lost in just a generation. In urban areas the most basic necessity for human wellbeing - safe water - may be reaching as few as 12% of the people."
The report says Kabul's water system is losing up to 60% of its supply because of leaks and illegal use.
Waste back-wash
In Herat, only 10% of the 150 public taps were working. There, and in Mazar-e-Sharif, Kandahar and the capital, the team found medical waste from hospitals being disposed of in the streets and an abandoned well.
In some cases it contained syringes and human organs. Urban drinking water had high concentrations of bacteria contaminants, coliforms and E.coli from sewage.
Growing crops, like these pomegranates, is now harder
Solid waste disposal, Unep says, is "one of the country's most glaring problems". Dumps are often sited above cities, where heavy rain can wash the waste back into the streets.
The report says: "Unep investigations of oil refineries and transport terminals, and brick, asphalt and lead battery factories revealed acute environmental and human health risks.
"In a plastic recycling/shoe factory in Kabul the team found children working without protection from toxic chemicals and sleeping at machines, or in factory alcoves, between their 12-hour shifts."
Wildlife pressure
In the countryside, it says, satellite imagery shows conifer forests in the provinces of Nangarhar, Kunar and Nuristan have shrunk by more than half since 1978.
Pistachio woodlands in northern Afghanistan, valuable money earners, have been devastated. The report says: "Almost no trees could be detected in Badghis and Takhar provinces in 2002 by satellite instruments, compared with 55% and 37% land cover respectively in 1977."
Inevitably, wildlife suffers: several hundred families had taken over an island in the Amu Darya river which was formerly home to otters, wild boar, Bactrian deer and birds of prey.
The team also spent two weeks on horseback in a remote area grazed by Kyrgyz and Wakhi herders, where there are snow leopards, Marco Polo sheep, wolves, brown bears and Asian ibex.
Unep says hunting, mainly for meat and furs, was significantly reduced during the Soviet occupation, but has increased since then.
a f t e r m a t h
o f
w a r s
Read it in BBC news - world edition
Wednesday, 29 January, 2003, 09:55 GMT
War 'has ruined Afghan environment'
Snow leopards and other species suffer as well as people
By Alex Kirby
BBC News Online environment correspondent
Two decades of war have laid waste Afghanistan's environment so badly that its reconstruction is now compromised, the United Nations says.
A UN Environment Programme (Unep) survey found more than half of Kabul's water supply is going to waste.
In urban areas the most basic necessity for human wellbeing - safe water - may be reaching as few as 12% of the people
Unep's Post-Conflict Assessment Unit
It found children working 12-hour shifts in dangerous factories, and sleeping at their machines.
More than half the forests in three Afghan provinces have been destroyed in 25 years.
A team from Unep's Post-Conflict Assessment Unit worked with the Afghanistan Transitional Authority to carry out the survey.
It involved 20 Afghan and foreign scientists in visits to 38 urban sites in four cities, and to 35 rural sites.
Basic resources
The team's report says the years of conflict have led to the "collapse of local and national governance, destroyed infrastructure, hindered agricultural activity and driven people into cities already lacking the most basic public amenities".
It says: "Three to four years of drought have compounded a state of widespread and serious resource degradation: lowered water tables, dried-up wetlands, denuded forests, eroded land and depleted wildlife populations."
Children are at special risk
Two million refugees returned to Afghanistan last year, and 1.5m more are expected in 2003, putting further strains on the country and its natural resources.
Dr Klaus Toepfer, Unep's executive director, said the report showed environmental restoration must be a major part of Afghanistan's reconstruction.
He said: "Over 80% of Afghan people live in rural areas, yet they have seen many of their basic resources - water for irrigation, trees for food and fuel - lost in just a generation. In urban areas the most basic necessity for human wellbeing - safe water - may be reaching as few as 12% of the people."
The report says Kabul's water system is losing up to 60% of its supply because of leaks and illegal use.
Waste back-wash
In Herat, only 10% of the 150 public taps were working. There, and in Mazar-e-Sharif, Kandahar and the capital, the team found medical waste from hospitals being disposed of in the streets and an abandoned well.
In some cases it contained syringes and human organs. Urban drinking water had high concentrations of bacteria contaminants, coliforms and E.coli from sewage.
Growing crops, like these pomegranates, is now harder
Solid waste disposal, Unep says, is "one of the country's most glaring problems". Dumps are often sited above cities, where heavy rain can wash the waste back into the streets.
The report says: "Unep investigations of oil refineries and transport terminals, and brick, asphalt and lead battery factories revealed acute environmental and human health risks.
"In a plastic recycling/shoe factory in Kabul the team found children working without protection from toxic chemicals and sleeping at machines, or in factory alcoves, between their 12-hour shifts."
Wildlife pressure
In the countryside, it says, satellite imagery shows conifer forests in the provinces of Nangarhar, Kunar and Nuristan have shrunk by more than half since 1978.
Pistachio woodlands in northern Afghanistan, valuable money earners, have been devastated. The report says: "Almost no trees could be detected in Badghis and Takhar provinces in 2002 by satellite instruments, compared with 55% and 37% land cover respectively in 1977."
Inevitably, wildlife suffers: several hundred families had taken over an island in the Amu Darya river which was formerly home to otters, wild boar, Bactrian deer and birds of prey.
The team also spent two weeks on horseback in a remote area grazed by Kyrgyz and Wakhi herders, where there are snow leopards, Marco Polo sheep, wolves, brown bears and Asian ibex.
Unep says hunting, mainly for meat and furs, was significantly reduced during the Soviet occupation, but has increased since then.
10 de maig del 2002
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Lo mejor que he encontrado en la web sobre información y debate político, especialmente internacional. Está en inglés: open Democracy (thinking for our time). Imprescindible las informaciones sobre el próximo y medio Oriente (Palestina, Israel, Afghanistan...), especialmente las de Paul Rogers.
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