Pakistani Flood Victims Protest Against Food Shortage

  • 14 years ago
Pakistan’s flood victims are in desperate need of basic necessities. In Sukkur, a group held a protest against food shortages and stole supplies from trucks.

In Sukkur, Pakistan, more than 200 flood victims at a relief camp looted a vehicle that arrived with food for their camp on Wednesday. They then marched out onto the road, chanting anti-government slogans.

[Noor Mohammad, Flood Victim]: (male Sindhi)
"Although relief goods are coming from all over, we are receiving nothing. We are protesting because of hunger. We are so terribly hungry, where should we go? A lot of stuff is coming but it is either going to the deputy commissioner’s office, or into the hands of the army. Where is the public supposed to go for help?"

Flood victims frustrated by lack of basic necessities in the relief camps are now becoming violent.

Millions of people are living in relief camps across the country, and reaching out to all of them is becoming almost impossible for the government and aid agencies.

The floods have killed more than 1,700 people, affected more than 18 million others and cost nearly $43 billion worth of damage to infrastructure and agriculture.

The UN says it needs hundreds of millions of more dollars in new donations to provide food, medicine and shelter to affected people.

Aid agencies have warned that millions of people are at risk of death if emergency food and shelters are not provided.

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