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| Doctors Without Borders condemns food drop |
| 2001-10-08 |
Nobel Peace Prize winner Medecins Sans Frontieres condemned the humanitarian operation accompanying the U.S.-led strikes on Afghanistan as ``military propaganda'' designed to justify the strikes. On Sunday, the United States dropped 37,500 food packages from two planes, destined for starving Afghans. Medicine is also expected to be dropped. In a statement, the French humanitarian group, known in English as Doctors Without Borders, said the operation ``isn't in any way a humanitarian aid operation, but more a military propaganda operation, destined to make international opinion accept the U.S.-led military operation.'' ``What sense is there in shooting with one hand, and giving medicine with the other?'' the group asked. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |