Latest on refugee crisis on Afghan/Pakistan border

Описание: (30 Sep 2001)

Chalo Bovree, 30 km north of Quetta
1. Wide shot of Chalo Bovree refugee camp
2. Old man walking towards an old UNHCR donated tent
3. Building among the tents
4. Close up of children faces
5. Close up baby boy wearing the necklace
6. Wide shot of tents
7. Pan of refugee camp
8. Young girl looking at camera
9. SOUNDBITE: (Pashtu) Atta Ullah, Afghan refugee
"We are very poor and we do not have anything here. No homes, few tents, some of us have no shelter."
10. Man digging mud out of the ground to build walls for the house
11. Close up man digging
12. Various of children covered in mud

Quetta
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rupert Colville, UNHCR spokesperson
"Back inside Afghanistan there are God knows how many tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people in the appalling circumstances, even maybe too weak to move at all. We do not really know, we know that baseline which is a massive number of people, millions of people who are already dependent on aid or who need it and are not actually getting it."
14. Various of plastic sheeting provided by the UNHCR being unloaded from the truck at UNHCR supply depot

STORYLINE:

Aid agencies in Pakistan remain concerned that a U-S strike on the Taliban could lead to a huge new exodus of refugees from war-torn and drought- stricken Afghanistan.

With the Pakistan border remaining closed for Afghani refugees in recent days, only a trickle of desperate Afghans have been able to make it over the mountains to Pakistan.

Every arrival adds to the burden on Pakistan which is already providing refuge for more than two million displaced Afghanis, some of whom have been in Pakistan for more than 10 years.

Houses in the Chalo Bovree refugee camp 30 kilometres (19 miles) north of Quetta, are being built from mud, and as winter approaches there is a race to finish the homes to withstand the harsh conditions.

Atta Ullah, an Afghan refugee who has lived in Chalo Bovree for more than a decade says life is desperate for those in the camp.

"We are very poor and we do not have anything here. No homes, few tents, some of us have no shelter."

United Nations High Commission for Refugees spokesperson (U-N-H-C-R), Rupert Colville, says the situation for people still living in Afghanistan could be worse still.

"Back inside Afghanistan" he said "there are God knows how many tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people in the appalling circumstances, even maybe too weak to move at all".

He said that while the U-N-H-C-R does not have a specific number of the amount of people needing help, he expects "millions of people who are already dependent on aid or who need it and are not actually getting it".

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