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April 15, 2007

Iraq food distribution system failing?

Here is a UPI article from April 11, which doesn't seem to have attracted much attention, describing a breakdown in Iraq's state-run food distribution program, on which a large proportion of Iraqis are more or less dependent. There are alleged to be problems with both lack of security, corruption and managerial incompetence. The Iraqi government is said to be refusing to acknowledge the scope of the crisis. An additional twist in this story is that the government is refusing for political reasons to transfer the PDS (food ration) cards of internal refugees to their new locations, as to do so would constitute official recognition of the population movements which are changing the ethnic and sectarian makeup of the different regions of the country. Thus many internal refugees are presumably going hungry.

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