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Quoted: Military-led aid projects doomed to fail in Afghanistan
January 28, 2011
By The IRC
Photo: Peter Biro/IRC
“Military-led projects erode established humanitarian principles of impartiality and independence, fail to win hearts and minds and — we now know — are ineffective.”
- Michael Kocher, the IRC's vice president of international programs, commenting on a Washington Post story in a January 10 letter to the editor.
Posted in Advocacy, Asia, Afghanistan | Tags: humanitarian, michael kocher, news, conflict, quoted, military aid
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