Somalia is NOT the Worst Humanitarian Disaster in World
Yesterday, after gorging myself on fantastic chicken tacos at the Guaca Maya Restaurant in Los cabos, Mexico, I surfed world news and came across this headline from CBC News:
Somalia 'worst humanitarian disaster' in world
The head of the UN refugee agency said Sunday that drought-ridden Somalia is the "worst humanitarian disaster" in the world after meeting with refugees who endured unspeakable hardship to reach the world's largest refugee camp.
A child from southern Somalia
stands outside a makeshift
shelter in Mogadishu
Photo: Mohamed Sheikh Nor/
Associated PressThe Kenyan camp, Dadaab, is overflowing with tens of thousands of newly arrived refugees forced into the camp by the parched landscape in the region where Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya meet. The World Food Program estimates that 10 million people already need humanitarian aid. The UN Children's Fund estimates that more than 2 million children are malnourished and in need of lifesaving action.
This is not true for at least two reasons:
- Almost every nation in Africa is the "worst humanitarian disaster" in the world (1).
- The real "worst humanitarian disaster" happened when the US and other western countries began helping Africans out of their "humanitarian disasters" decades ago.
My tummy was full and I was feeling most excellent and so I thought of all these poor, hungry, suffering children and asked myself what I could do to help so that scenes like this would not happen ever again. It occurred to me I could most help by asking everyone to mind his own business.
If we had only minded our own business in 1984, less than a million Africans would have died. Now tens of millions are dying. British writer and researcher on African issues Alex De Waal informs us that the so-called "humanitarian aid" efforts (such as the July 1985 concert Live Aid which raised a hundred million dollars) only prolonged ... [the] human suffering [in Africa]." (2)
Americans are the main cause of the present humanitarian disaster because of all the money, food, and medicine they sent to Africa decades ago. It is time we stopped with our so-called good intentions and started doing the right thing which is to do nothing. Do not send money, food, or medicine. If you truly care for the lives of these poor children For Gods Sake - Stop Helping Africa.
ENDNOTES
(1):
Planck's Constant, The Inhumanity of Caring People
"The Horn of Africa region is facing the worst humanitarian crisis since 1984, and Ethiopia is caught in the middle," said Josette Sheeran, executive director of the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP).
(2):
de Waal, Alex. 1991. Evil Days: Thirty Years of War and Famine in Ethiopia New York & London: Human Rights Watch. ISBN 1-56432-038-3
