Government made sufferings of flood victims acute
SUKKUR: The effects of floods in Sindh in the last two years were made worse by bad governance and mala fide on part of those feudal lords who had had the course of floodwater changed to save their lands at the expense of the poor. These views were expressed by participants of a meeting organised by the People’s Accountability Commission on Floods at a hotel here the other day.
A large number of people from various NGOs, human rights activists and journalists attended the meeting and discussed various issues and challenges faced by the flood victims in Sindh and Balochistan.
Punhial Saryo, Chairman of the Sindh Hari Sangat, said that the people of Sindh suffered not because of the natural calamities but because of the man-made destruction, and that the government itself had been involved in increasing the sufferings of the people. Ashothama of the HRCP said that there had been a huge gap between the government policies and their implementation to provide adequate protection to the victims of floods.
Sobia Talpur, a lawyer, said that the government had failed in protecting the women victims of floods at various camps where cases of sexual harassment were reported.
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