Save the Children

[kanader]

Shocking second a day clip shows how British child's life could be hit by war


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RBQ-IoHfimQ

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More info here :

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/463272/Save-The-Children-Shocking-second-a-day-video-shows-how-UK-child-would-be-affected-by-war

 

[Lumiere_du_Code]

Yesterday I saw this. In Syria fighters of Al-Qaeda together with the Chechens, who speak Russian, kill inhabitants. the operator says in Russian: "Hold the video camera, I too want to shoot at them".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZFlSKv9XQc

 

[Tigersoap]

As much as I think that children suffering from wars is horrendous, I have some nagging doubts at the Save the children real motivations. The fact that the video went viral so fast may be a sign that this may be a huge backed up PR stunt.

Just from their wikipedia page :

The Save the Children Fund Film

Main article: The Save the Children Fund Film

In 1969, Save the Children UK commissioned film director Ken Loach and producer Tony Garnett to make The Save the Children Fund Film.[22] The resulting film was unacceptable to the organisation because they felt it presented their work in an unfavourable light.[23]
They refused to pay for the film and tried to have it destroyed, out of concern that it would damage their reputation.[citation needed] Loach and Garnett took legal action to get paid.[citation needed] Eventually a legal agreement was arrived at which involved the material being deposited in the National Film Archive.[23][24] The legal battle nearly left Kestrel Films, Loach and Garnett's company, bankrupt.[citation needed] In 2011, roughly 42 years later, it was shown to the public for the first time in decades.[23][25]

Expulsion from Pakistan

On September 6, 2012 it was reported that the Pakistani Government had requested Save the Children's foreign staff to leave the country, although the Minister for Home Affairs later said that this request had been suspended.Newspaper stories claimed that the July 2012 draft report of a Pakistani government inquiry into the conduct of Dr. Shakil Afridi, who is said to have conducted a fake vaccination campaign at the request of the CIA, includes reference to claims by Dr Afridi that he was working for Save the Children.

However, Save the Children has denied that Dr Afridi ever worked for them, or that they had any connection with the fake vacination campaign. The report is also alleged to have included a claim by Dr Afridi that Michael McGrath, who was Save the Children country director in Pakistan until 2009, was the person who recruited him. However, Dr Afridi provided no evidence to support his claim, and as the alleged recruitment happened long after Michael McGrath left Pakistan, the allegation was clearly false.[citation needed] The Government of Pakistan conducted an extensive investigation into these claims by Dr Afridi, but could not find an association between him and Save the Children's programme in Pakistan.

The report of the Pakistani Government inquiry has not been released.Western NGO officials say Pakistani authorities have made it much harder for them to do their jobs, but they also have criticized the CIA for using humanitarian work as a cover forintelligence gathering.[26]In January 2013, the Deans of twelve top U.S. schools of public health sent a letter to President Obama protesting against the entanglement of intelligence operations in public health campaigns. The letter describes the negative and lasting impacts of the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) use of a fake vaccination campaign in Pakistan during the hunt for Osama bin Laden in 2011, which exacerbated the already persistent public mistrust of vaccines in the country. A series of deadly attacks against aid and health workers associated with polio eradication campaigns have occurred over the past month in Pakistan.[27]

There is a lot more on this blog :


_http://aangirfan.blogspot.be/2012/09/save-children-front-for-cia.html