Look how our poor Gaia is dying before our eyes, with its convulsions of agony, in response to the spells we inflict on it. All over the world, because of our negligence. In Russia, a China and Florida. Pakistan suffers from its fury, and it is millions of homeless who are delivered to rising waters and a powerless government.
Under the flood, the mort and despair. plagued by flooding unprecedented for a week, Pakistan is drowning and calls for help to come to the aid of the victims of this devastating monsoon. According to local authorities, the bad weather claimed nearly 15 million victims. Evacuation operations are increasing but, according to the UN, at least 1600 people have already died in the disaster.
After first affecting the north-west and the center of the country, the bad weather gradually reached the province of Sindh, in the south of this already very poor South Asian country. A red alert has been issued for the "imminent" and "extreme" threat of flooding while the meteorological services have still counted on new precipitation.
Prime Minister appeals to the international community
“There are areas where people don't want to leave their homes and abandon their belongings. We are forcing them to leave because their lives are at stake,” said the Minister of Irrigation of Sind, who noted that the water level along the Indus River which crosses the region is “exceptionally high”.
The rising waters did a lot of damage. Hundreds of villages have been devastated, invaded by mud and, for the survivors, survival is getting organized as best they can. “The floods killed our loved ones, destroyed our homes and even swept away the graves of our elders. So far, we have not received any help from the government”, confided at the end of the week to the daily “Dawn” a disaster victim from the Sindh region. Faced with the scale of the disaster, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousouf Raza Gilani on Friday appealed to the international community for immediate aid to his country facing what he called "the worst floods in its history". . "The loss of life and infrastructure is immense," he added. On the ground, the relief workers are trying to cope with the disaster. According to the UN, the needs are “impressive”.
The World Food Program estimates that 2,5 million people will need to benefit from food assistance in the next three months. There France will pay aid of €1 million, divided between the victims and the humanitarian organisations. In a general context of shortage of food, drinking water and tents, humanitarian workers are also faced with difficulties of access to certain populations cut off from the world. Heavy rains hitting Pakistan have also caused flooding in India, killing at least 132 people and leaving hundreds missing in the northern state of Kashmir.
source: Le Parisien
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