{"id":81592,"date":"2016-03-17T18:43:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T18:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/icrc-2015-was-the-deadliest-year-for-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T09:31:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T09:31:03","slug":"icrc-2015-was-the-deadliest-year-for-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/icrc-2015-was-the-deadliest-year-for-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"ICRC: 2015 was the deadliest year for Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/3 March\/18  Mar\/ICRC (1).jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL(SW): Peter Maurer , President of the International&nbsp; Committee of The Red Cross(ICRC), told&nbsp; a press conference here in Kabul today(Friday) , that 2015 was the deadliest year for the Afghan citizens.<\/p>\n<p>He said that a large number of civilians including warring sides have lost their lives in the fighting.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the international aid agencies were also went through immense pressure as a number of their staffers too lost their lives in the restive areas in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that in the past year, nearly 1 million Afghan citizens left their country for abroad due to insecurity and unemployment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/3 March\/18  Mar\/ICRC (2).jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He said that more than 3500 civilians were killed and 7500 more injured as a result of fighting and security forces military operations.<\/p>\n<p>He further said that in his face to face conversation with the citizens, they pointed out to insecurity and unemployment as their major needs.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Afghanistan needs a political solution to the conflict but such solution seems rather out of reach.<\/p>\n<p>He vowed that ICRC will increase its budget for Afghanistan by 10 percent in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Maurer , President of the International  Committee of the Red Cross(ICRC), told  a press conference here in Kabul today(Friday) , that 2015 was the deadliest year for the Afghan citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-81592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}