Trump Foreign Aid Cuts Threaten Refugees’ Survival: ‘People Will Die’
New York TimesMAR 14
These warnings are a last resort cry of desperation, as global aid cuts, particularly from major donors like the U.S., have been crushing refugee programs for months. From Bangladesh and South Sudan to Burkina Faso and Haiti, millions of lives are now at risk if world powers — which historically could always be relied upon — don't reverse course.
These UN relief campaigns don't actually help the countries and people they claim to. USAID, for example, has long been used to fund dirty espionage operations rather than to feed or house refugees. The people from these countries know this, and until the Western powers in charge clean up this rotten system, no one should support the UN's ineffective aid programs.
There's a much more sinister side to UN aid programs beyond underfunding and efficacy problems. Rohingyas have been forced to sign up for so-called "Smart Cards," which use biometric data to track refugees, and without which they're not allowed to access food. Without adequate explanations of what these cards are, refugees are treated like guinea pigs in this new surveillance experiment.