The results of the US dictated total war campaign in NW Pakistan are beginning to come to international attention. Red Cross officials have made their first visit into the war-torn Swat Valley of Pakistan since the USA inspired fighting began between the Pakistan Military and Taliban Resistance. They have reported that civilians in the northwestern region of the country are in dire need of assistance.
There is no domestic running water, no power and precious little food in the area according to the team leader of The International Committee of the Red Cross. Telephone lines are knocked out and the traumatised population is effectively excommunicated from the outside world.
Only skeletal personnel remain in the hospitals and an immediate and comprehensive humanitarian response is needed, the Red Cross said in a statement.
Pakistan’s Military 'expects' to finish off its five-week total war campaign in the North West within days, driving Taliban fighters from Swat and adjacent districts. The Military are now in control of Swat’s largest city, Mingora. According to the North West Frontier Province government,the fighting has forced 2.8 million people to flee their homes.
The Obama Administration's special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, will this week inspect the refugee camps in the northwest . According to the New York Times, Holbrooke's team, which includes US Military and State Dept apparatchiks, departs Mon for the blighted region.
It is ironic that Holbrooke, the architect of the diktat for War in the region, should now arrive in the guise of some kind of rich American benefactor to spread the special US brand of folksy noblesse oblige about among the halt, the lame, the mad and the recently blinded, but such are the comforting folkways of US imperialist adventures.
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