Some international aid agency personnel are joining warlords in stealing and remarketing vast amounts of donated wheat and other rations destined for Afghanistan, according to UN officials. Because of pilfering, some food shipments have dwindled by more than half on their long journey from donors to the hungry, more than 20 aid officials and villagers said in interviews. ''In reality, there is a big loss of food,'' said Atiq Ullah Muhmond, a program officer for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees. ''There is a lot of corruption. It's the NGOs,'' or nongovernmental organizations; ''it's people with guns. We are trying to minimize it, but we can't stop it. We have no other alternative; we haven't had the international staff recently to oversee what is going on.''
No doubt Chomsky and company will get right on this. Sounds like some sort of silent genocide by NGOs. |