Hi Barry - recent subscriber and really enjoying your work!
Just one comment on language regarding the situation in Afghanistan. I think it is important to note that the refugees are not "returning" from neighbouring Pakistan and Iran, but the majority have been forcefully, and often quite brutally, expelled, dispossessed and kicked out. In the case of Pakistan, many of these people had been living there for years, often decades. I think this is important both generally, in terms of the hostility of neighbouring countries towards the people who have fled Afghanistan over the years, but also in this specific case, because this very recent expulsion has led to a lot of people coming to the region hit by the earthquake, resulting in overcrowding in houses and higher death toll as a result.
Hi Tsevatan! Thanks so much for subscribing. You’re absolutely right. I’ve used forced in previous entries but shouldn’t use returned without context like I did yesterday. Will remember that in future. Appreciate the note.
Hi Barry - recent subscriber and really enjoying your work!
Just one comment on language regarding the situation in Afghanistan. I think it is important to note that the refugees are not "returning" from neighbouring Pakistan and Iran, but the majority have been forcefully, and often quite brutally, expelled, dispossessed and kicked out. In the case of Pakistan, many of these people had been living there for years, often decades. I think this is important both generally, in terms of the hostility of neighbouring countries towards the people who have fled Afghanistan over the years, but also in this specific case, because this very recent expulsion has led to a lot of people coming to the region hit by the earthquake, resulting in overcrowding in houses and higher death toll as a result.
Hi Tsevatan! Thanks so much for subscribing. You’re absolutely right. I’ve used forced in previous entries but shouldn’t use returned without context like I did yesterday. Will remember that in future. Appreciate the note.
The magnitude of the ongoing simultaneous eruption of human suffering is staggering, overwhelming, biblical in its relentless onslaught.