UN chief warns of new 'massive wave of death' in Pakistan

[Briar]

UN chief warns of new 'massive wave of death' in Pakistan
AP
The United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan warned that a
second " massive wave of death" would hit Pakistani areas most
affected by the mammoth earthquake unless the international community stepped up the relief effort immediately.

With winter approaching fast and terrain difficult in the affected
area of some 11,000 square miles, the relief effort was one of the
most challenging undertaken, he said.

"It is a race against time to save the lives of these people,"
Annan said. "This is a huge, huge disaster ... perhaps the biggest
ever that we have seen ... and at the time of the cold season."

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He called for a major increase in funds, noting that donors had
only made firm commitments for 12%, or £20 million of the UN appeal
for £173 million. By comparison, he said, the UN flash appeal after
last December's tsunami was more than 80% funded within 10 days of
the disaster.

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article320885.ece

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. These numbers are all wrong.....

if it took us 200 billion to kill somewhere between 30,000 and 100,000 Iraqi civilians.... well, you know. Money for this.... no money for that.... pity.

[Briar]

2. Yep

protecting "our" so-called National Security (that threat Saddam posed to our cities!) naturally demands much more expenditure than saving the very lives of millions of "those" people with the wrong coloured skin and the wrong kinds of name and religion.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

3. This is probably the most depressing disaster this year.

At least with the tsunami(s) there was a massive sense of global concern & even my local co-op had collection buckets. With Katrina there was wall to wall coverage for a fortnight. This time nobody seems to care - it's barely front page news - yet thousands are dead and many more may yet come.