What can be done for the internally displaced people in the wake of the conflict between Pakistani troops and Taliban in the Swat Valley?

The most important thing that can be done for the swelling tide of refugees from the Swat Valley is that they have a safe place to go where they can recover from the violence. Furthermore, it's important that these services come quickly and are provided generously since members of a charity banned for its alleged links to the Mumbai terror attack are distributing food and medicine among the refugees. These are people who have been forced to flee from a bloody government fight against the Taliban, a government that they already consider corrupt, inefficient, and have deep questions about.

Officials who expect to be bribed in this area of the world is not uncommon. The minds of the people make the difference for the outcome in their region. Ultimately, the battle against the Taliban cannot be won if the people do not support their government or the effort.It is possible that not enough precautions have been taken to foresee to the safety and well being of civilians in areas that have erupted into heavy, violent fighting.

This essentially means that while losses are high, territory has not been won from Taliban who die alongside the people. Territory is not won with the people's unwilling blood.It requires a permanent investment of force to hold, because it has no other basis by which to hold the territory. The best way to begin mitigating the situation is to allow neutral parties like the International Red Cross to provide relief directly and engage refugees themselves and local charities to provide medicine, documentation, clothing, water and other needs.

Such crisis must have the benefit of International participation to fund relief efforts of compassion, and send a signal that the world still cares. Many of these people are subsistence farmers who would normally be providing food and trade. They will ultimately want to go back to their farms and rebuild, and have assistance to do so once their homes are no longer a war zone would be the right thing.

Construction efforts will be very important. Their children and wives will need their health needs addressed, and they will need warmth, comfort and safety. Given the means, their is much people can be enlisted to do for themselves, something they were accustomed to.

Being thrown to the elements and homeless, not knowing what to do, after government fighting has displaced you, cannot be ignored, because the International community will be remembered for it, as will the government, if nothing is allowed to be done. This is why the work of relief agencies and others working the problem must get more publicity, both among Swat Valley refugees, Pakistan, and abroad.

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