Indeed. the scope of famine and the resulting starvation in Afghanistan is fully comparable to the Ethiopian tragedy. according to International reports. JeanFrancois Revel in a recent article notes that more than 4% million Afghans have fled the country since 1978. mostly to Pakistan. It is an astounding fact that more than one out of every two refugees on this planet today is an Afghan. According to Revel: "If you add to this figure the number of resistance fighters killed. of those executed. of civilians massacred or starved to death (a figure that can prudently be put at a million) this means that of the 13 to 14 million inhabit. ants of the country in 1978 there remain today on Afghan soil about 8 million." "Put otherwise." says Revel. "nearly 40 percent of the population is either in exile. or dead." Afghanistan Is on the front lines of free. dom. The Afghan people are paying with the supreme sacrifice of their lives.
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