Rebuilding the homeland, Afghan people do not need "crocodile tears"

The pain that Afghan people are suffering now, in addition to the earthquake, are more from sanctions taken by the Western world led by the United States.

In the early morning in late June, with a loud noise, Hava was woken up by the collapsed wall, and the dust was coughing, and she only heard a few children crying "Mom".

"I didn't expect that I could survive." Thinking of the scene of that day, lying in Hava in a hospital bed in a hospital in the province of Parkerca, Parkerca, Southeast African, was worried.

Since the evacuation of the U.S. forces in mid -last year, since the administration of Afghanistan Taliban, a number of economic sanctions and restrictions in Western countries such as the United States and other Western countries have made this already difficult country almost hollowed out. Today, after the most deadly earthquake in the past 20 years, various restrictions on the West have once again become the biggest obstacles to Afghan people accepting humanitarian assistance and rebuilding their homes.

What should I do in the future? Like many Afghaners, Hava dare not think more.

It is difficult to enter the disaster area with heavy wind and rainy supplies

Afghanistan and Horster are located in high mountain areas that meet the border with Pakistan. This is also one of the poorest places in Afghanistan.

For people living here, the fertile soil is scarce resources, and some crops are planted under this barren mountains to barely maintain their livelihood. In more, they live in a money life from Pakistan, Iran, or relatives who work far abroad.

Sadly crying children in the affected villages in Parkica. Figure: GJ

Coupled with the poor governance and international sanctions, the people here have no money to build a firm house. Their houses are almost built with wood, accumulated from soil and some simple materials, which are very fragile and unbearable.

When the earthquake struck in the early morning of the 22nd, the sleeping people had no time to respond, and the wall and roof were pressed at the bottom. On the only unpredictable walls, you can see obvious cracks, and there is the risk of collapse at any time.

The local people dragged the tired steps, trying to find the buried relatives in the ruins, and the home that was still barely used. The child was wearing an adult's clothes and stood blankly in a temporary tent made of waterproof cloth, watching the adults buried the loved ones who were killed.

In order to help the victims over the difficulties, on the day of the earthquake, the Afghan Taliban government announced a pension of 1 billion Afghanistan (about 10 million US dollars), and sent only six helicopters to participate in the rescue. The Afghan Bonus Crescent and the Turkish Red Crescent and other institutions also act immediately to provide rescue for the disaster area.

Materials from Chinese tents, towels, folding beds and other materials that Afghanistan had urgently needed materials on June 27th. Afghanistan Pakistan, Pakistan, has opened a transit point in a timely manner in Kaobol-Puchta, in the north, allowing Afghan people to be injured in the earthquake for visa-free entry for treatment.

In order to allow international organizations participating in the rescue to carry out earthquake relief work at ease, Khan Mohammed Ahmad, a senior official of Parktica provinces of Parkerca, promised that it would not interfere with the rescue of international organizations. "Whether it is the Food Planning Department, the United Nations Children's Foundation, or any other organizations, it will allocate rescue materials by themselves." The United Nations Children's Foundation Mot also said: "The Taliban did not stop us from distributing materials. On the contrary, they were helping us. "

However, it is necessary to pay these urgent life -saving money and materials to the victims in time, and the obstacles are heavy.

Most of the roads leading to the disaster area are the soil roads around the steep hillside, and sometimes there are rivers blocked, and large trucks are difficult to drive in mountainous areas. Recently, rainfall, rising river water, and a large amount of broken stones and rubble caused by earthquakes have made the truck full of bread, flour, rice and blankets more difficult. The wind and rain also caused difficulties in searching and material launching the helicopter.

Therefore, many victims do not even have temporary tents, and they can only sleep in the nearby forests at the rainy night after the earthquake. With hope, they hope that rescue supplies can be sent to the disaster area earlier and earlier.

"The government has done its best." Afghan Taliban spokesman Abdul Kahar Barki said helplessly.

It is the biggest problem to rebuild home money

However, it is the first step to send life money and materials to the victims in time.

The mountainous areas in Afghanistan are shorter than the plain. As the summer solstice passes, the day is getting shorter and shorter during the day, the night is getting longer and cooler. The locals know that when summer goes away, winter is not far away. A earthquake made them have nothing to live in the home of pots and pans, and they have nothing to do, and the rescue supplies are only enough to support them for a short time.

Afghan victims checked the house damaged in the earthquake. Picture source: Xinhua News Agency

In just a few months before the severe winter, whether to complete the reconstruction can be re -home to return to it. And this is almost impossible to complete.

Time is urgent. As officials in Afghanistan in Afghanistan in the World Grain Program, the materials needed by the local victims are "far more than food, but also asylum." Obviously, the "shelter" mentioned here is not a temporary tent. Some villages that are most affected by earthquake disasters are "completely destroyed", or at least 70 % of houses collapse, and reconstruction takes several months or even years.

Rebuilding the urgently needed money is also particularly scarce. More than 60 % of the rescue organizations believe that the lack of available cash in Afghanistan is "a procedural obstacle."

As the US media said, since the Taliban of Afghanistan has controlled the regime, "Afghanistan has actually been isolated from the global financial system." Overseas assets are frozen by the United States, and the Afghan Taliban regime cannot use these assets to maintain the normal operation of commercial banks. Enterprises or individuals cannot withdraw the deposits in bank accounts, and most local government employees, doctors, nurses and teachers have not received their salary for several months. At the same time, because the Afghan central bank does not print the country's currency Afghanistan, the currency is manufactured by overseas factories, and the only domestic cash is gradually consumed in circulation. Therefore, whether it is the Afghan Taliban regime or the ordinary people, it is really lacking.

Afghanistan cannot pay money in China, and overseas organizations that want to fund Afghanistan after disaster rescue are also worrying about money, especially how to transfer money to Afghanistan.

Martin Griffis, the person in charge of the UN Humanitarian Affairs Coordination Office, said that although humanitarian assistance has been excluded from the scope of sanctions, "the banking system continues to prevent transfer to local transfer." Statistics show that about 80 % of international organizations encountered the problem of delay in transfer of transfer to Afghanistan. Two -thirds of the organization reported that the banks that were connected with them refused to transfer to Afghanistan.

Even if you want to remit money to local people in personal names, it is not easy. Many Afghan people who live overseas said that in the past 9 months, they have tried to remit money to domestic relatives through services such as Western Union and Suihui Gold, but they have encountered trouble. My relatives and friends gave money. According to the Wall Street Journal, most of the issues are concerned that the remittance company is worried about violating the US sanctions policies against Afghanistan.

There is no action in the West

Regarding the pain caused by the earthquake to Afghanians, the US President's Security Assistant Sarawan and Secretary of State Brillin expressed "deeply sad" and "standing with the people of Afghanistan."

But these sensational words sounded ironically in Afghanians. After all, the pain that Afghan people are suffering now are except for the earthquake, and it is more from sanctions taken by the Western world led by the United States.

"Sanctions have caused such a big harm to us." Bach, born in Afghanistan, is the founder of a rescue organization. In his opinion, the West is "carpet -like sanctioning the entire country and all people."

The Chinese government sent charcoal in the snow, and assisted the first batch of earthquake relief materials in Afghanistan to reach Kakaber Airport on the 27th

"They provide 'condolences', but we are still so difficult to accept assistance supplies and money. The United States has a direct responsibility for this. It makes it more difficult for the aid agency to operate at such a critical moment." Afghan reporter Lati Fei Writing in social media. Another reporter Kakobu even said sharp: "The tears of the crocodile can't help the Afghanist. Please thaw the assets of the Bank of Afghanistan and stop sanctioning Afghanistan."

Luosaira Mickey, the person in charge of the Urgent Rescue Organization of the Medical Care Network, believes that if the Western world led by the United States continues to implement such a financial blockade, "basically it will make 25 million Afghan people have difficulty making a living, and they can only hungry Then die. "

In fact, many Afghanians, especially Parkerka and Horster's victims, have been ashamed.

In this earthquake, Hava eventually lost 4 of the 6 children, and 17 relatives had not been able to escape the robbery. "I lost everything, my entire family, the whole world, I don't have any expectations for the future."

The 30 -year -old Patham is also sad in her heart. Standing on the ruins, the cool breeze of Ren Ye drilled into the worn clothes, thinking about all of his own family, such as cooking pots and pots for cooking and boiled water, and he was buried under the ruins. He pointed at the temporary tent and said, "Regardless Winter or spring, we must stay here. "

Produced deep -sea district studio

Written Qi Xu

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