Re: GAS-L: Stoves for peace

["Ken Boak" <kenboak@stirlingservice.freeserve.co.uk>]

Original Message: From Dan Dimiduk Carefreeland@aol.com

Hello stovers, biofriends,

It has been stated that we could do more for the people of Afghanistan by
sending humanitarian aid than bombs.  I wholeheartedly agree.  I float this
purpose.
I purpose that the Biomass Energy Foundation make some attempt to weigh
in on the situation as a global help group, by sending prototype stoves for
refugees.  If we could get the information to these people about how to
conserve their meager fuel resources with useful demonstration models, they
could help themselves.
I am sure that their will be plenty of cans available for these obviously
intelligent and self sufficient people to work with, and time will be their
asset while away from home in refugee camps.
 Send food, and feed a man for a day.  Send a stove and feed a man for
life. Send an idea and feed a city indefinitely.
 If this idea floats, Tom Reed has my address, and I will donate the money
to buy      the first $4.00 production model from India for demonstration.
Send me the bill.
    Anybody willing to support this effort? Help with transportation?

                                                            Daniel Dimiduk



Dan and Listers,

This is an admirable cause and I hope that Western Aid agencies are turning
their collective attention to the plight of the Afghan people.

Long before the events of 10 days ago, the average citizen of Afghanistan
has been quietly suffering in poverty for years.

Following the Russian invasion of Christmas 1979, ten years of bitter
conflict (their equivalent of a long drawn out Vietnam) and the eventual
Russian withdrawal in 1989  the country has been laid waste, and surviving
only on subsistence agriculture.

Most of the infrastructure was destroyed or disabled, and now after 12
years, the bankrupt country, has struggled to re-instate even the basics of
civilisation.

Here is a report describing the difficulties and the attrocities suffered
(by both sides) during the 79-89 war,  and there are significant lessons to
be learnt for any country considering any sort of military action in the
rugged mountainous terrain of Afghanistan.

http://www.bdg.minsk.by/cegi/N2/Afg/Waraf.htm

The Afghan people have nothing more to give, nothing left to bomb so please
after 10 years of Soviet aggression, let us not subject them to further
superpower heavy handed military action.

If it's OBL the Western world want - and they seem to have convinced
themselves of this, then a precision strike by specialist forces, is going
to be far more effective than carpet bombing of innocent people.


Ken






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