The international aid group Doctors Without Borders (Medicins Sans Frontieres) has been in Afghanistan since 1980. It has braved the Soviet occupation from 1979 to 1989, the civil war in the 1990s, and the rule of the hard-line Taliban. The medical charity has now decided to pull out of Afghanistan, becoming the first major aid agency to quit the war-ravaged country since the ouster of the Taliban in late 2001.
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"To erase all distinctions between military efforts against insurgents and humanitarian work, puts all aid workers in danger," asserted (Doctor's Withour Borders) NGO's Secretary General. It's all the more dramatic as the Afghan population, hostage for decades to war and destruction, and which lives in some of the worst hygienic conditions in the world, has an urgent need of this aid".
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