Survival and Dignity in an Afghan Winter

Kathy Kelly @ Common Dreams - There were many such casualties, the New York Times reports, in the deadly January of 2012, Afghanistan's coldest January in 20 years.  The United Nations notes that, in camps around Kabul, as many as 35,000 refugees from the fighting had only tents and mud huts to protect them from the cold.  In those camps alone, 26 Afghan children froze to death this past winter, with nationwide casualties in triple digits.  Read more.