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February 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The human rights group released a report on Thursday, saying more Afghans have fled their homes as fighting has spread to areas of the war-ravaged country that had previously been relatively peaceful.
According to the report, half a million of the displaced are abandoned while facing starvation and death even in the capital Kabul.
“If you go to these informal settlements, the images will haunt you,” said Michael Bochenek, legal and policy director for Amnesty, describing a shelter near a mosque in Herat province where latrines were leaking into the ground so that “people were walking and living on top of raw sewage.”
Up to 35,000 of the internally displaced are living in makeshift shelters in the Afghan capital as thousands of them are struggling to cope with record cold weather in mountainous areas.
“Thousands of people are finding themselves living in freezing, cramped conditions and on the brink of starvation,” said Horia Mosadiq, Amnesty’s researcher in Afghanistan.
Sayedullah, a 30-year-old man living in a makeshift settlement in Kabul, told reporters that he fled his village in Surobi district of Kabul province because of the US-led war in the country.
“This year, one of my children died because of the cold weather,” the man said “We have been told that we can stay in this camp until spring and then we have to leave. Where can we go?”
Another displaced man – 38-year-old Mir Alam who fled fighting in southern Afghanistan – described his dire living conditions in the capital.
“I don’t think that any animal will be able to live where we live in Kabul,” he said.
US-led forces occupied Afghanistan in 2001, promising to fight terror and bring peace and stability to the war-torn country. Eleven years later, conflict, instability and drug production and trade have reportedly increased despite the presence of nearly 150,000 foreign troops.
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