Attacks on Aid Workers in OEF Reaches All-Time High
Humanitarian aid workers, NGO and the UN continue to be targets in Gap countries slipping towards war.
Attacks on humanitarian workers in Afghanistan have reached an all-time high, with more abductions and murders of staff in June than any other month in the past six years.Figuring out how we will respond to these types of challenges is a key problem to solve in the 21st Century international security environment. These NGO and UN relief forces are a key asset in helping Gap countries achieve enough stability and development to begin attracting FDI flows. If global guerillas can veto their involvement, then they can effectively create or prolong state failure.The Agency Co-ordinating Body for Afghan Relief, a Kabul-based umbrella organisation for 100 of the aid organisations operating in the country, said on Friday there had been 21 incidents in June.
So far this year, there had been 84 attacks in which 19 staff had lost their lives – a death toll that already outstrips the total for all of 2007.
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[1] Financial Times, August 1, 2008, Afghan Attacks On Aid Workers Hit Record, By Jon Boone.
