パキスタン地震被災者支援を
第２報 ルビナ・ジャミルさんからの続報 （１０月２８日付、抄訳）
ＡＰＴＵＦは、被災地域で活動しているボランティアと組合役員が出席して会議を開きました。ボランティアたちは状況の悪化や救援活動の現状について報告しました。
軍事政権は被災者たちに必要な救援物資を提供することが全くできていません。連絡・調整や、物資をすべての被災地域に配るための計画がないためです。重傷を負った人たちがラホール、ラワルピンジー、イスラマバード、カラチなどの大都市の病院の間を移送されていますが、移送の際に記録が管理されていないため、家族がどこへ移送されたかがわからなくなっています。多くの女性や子どもたちが、まだショック状態にあります。ギャングたちが子どもを誘拐しているという報告もあります。子どもの売買に関連している恐れがあります。
政府はこのような災害に対処する計画を持っておらず、必要な非常用の機器も、人々の救援活動の連絡調整を行う能力も持っていませんでした。膨大な軍事費が支出される一方で、人々を救出するためのヘリコプターやクレーンがないのです。・・・
パキスタン支配下のカシミールやパキスタン北部から避難した数十万人の人たちは、大量のテントと毛布が迅速に配られなければ、病気や死の危険に直面します。地震から２週間近くになるのに、国際的な支援や国内からの支援の要地になっているムザファラバードでさえ、テントが圧倒的に不足しています。
この状況はパキスタンという国家の姿を映す鏡のようです。それは人々に、この国の危機管理能力に関する広範な疑問を呼び起こしているだけでなく、もっと重要なこととして、この数十年間に、一連の政権の下で確立されてきた優先課題や理念に対する疑問を呼び起こしています。・・・
地震によってもたらされた恐ろしい規模の人命と財産の損失は、今後何年間もパキスタンの人々を悩ませるでしょう。救援活動は、毛布や食糧やテントの配給で終わるものではありません。次の問題は被災した地域の社会を再建し、崩壊した生活基盤を再建することです。・・・
このような規模の災害では、どんな国でも外国からの支援を必要としますが、重要なことはその国自身の対応の適切さと、その国のリーダーが困難な状況にある国民を率いて状況に立ち向かう上で果たすべき役割です。多くの公務員や民間の人たちや団体・機関が被災地の救援に駆けつけていることを私たちは知っています。しかし、政府は、その資質と感受性の欠如のために、状況に屈しています。 最新の報告では、地震による死者は７万人に達しています。これは２００３年のバム（イラン南東部）の地震や０４年の津波の被害さえ上回っています。
負傷して手当てを受けていない人々が次々と見つかっています。傷からの感染や壊疽が広がっています。
ＡＰＴＵＦとＷＷＯ（女性労働者組織）は他のいくつかの労働組合と共に、地震直後から、北西国境州とカシミールの被災地域で活動を始めています。「ＡＰＴＵＦ地震救援基金」を設け、組合員は１日分の収入をカンパし、１０万ルピーを集めました。ＡＰＴＵＦの２０人のボランティアがこれらの地域で活動しており、毛布や衣類、乾燥食品、医薬品を配っています。その中でいくつかの問題に直面しています。治安が悪いこと（救援物資を積んだトラックが盗賊に襲われる）、地滑りで道路が寸断されていること、悪天候（降雪）、テントと毛布の不足、物価の急騰、女性の医師の不足、人とお金が足りないこと等です。
ＡＰＴＵＦはすべてを失った人々、とくに子どもや女性の状態の改善のために活動を続けます。
全パキスタン労働組合連合からの
緊急アピール（2005/10/10） 第１報地震被災者が援助を必要としています！
ＡＰＴＵＦは、１０月８日土曜日の朝、パキスタンを襲った壊滅的な災害によって数十万人が被害を受け、多くの人が死亡したことに衝撃を受けています。
このメッセージは、全世界のすべての組織に連帯を呼びかけ、ＡＰＴＵＦが被災者に医薬品、テント、毛布、食糧、飲み水、衣服を提供するのを支援するために設立した「ＡＰＴＵＦ地震救援基金」にカンパを送ることを要請するものです。
恐ろしい数字が報告されています。現在の時点で、死者の数は５万人を超えるかも知れません。何千人もの子どもたちが、いまだに、学校の瓦礫の下に閉じ込められています。約４００万人の人々が地震の影響を受けました。多くの道路が遮断されています。
被災した人々を支援するために、ＡＰＴＵＦは１０月９日に緊急の会議を開催しました。ＡＰＴＵＦは政府が危機に対処するためのいかなる政策も持っておらず、地震の被災者に必要かつ緊急の支援を提供できていないことに憂慮を表明しました。
ＡＰＴＵＦは国際連帯を呼びかけると共に、すべての組合員、役員に１日分の収入を「ＡＰＴＵＦ地震救援基金」にカンパすることを呼びかけることを決定しました。ＡＰＴＵＦは北西国境州、アザドカシミール、その他の被災地にキャンプを設立するために組合員を動員しつつあります。
ＡＰＴＵＦを代表して、私たちは地震で愛する人たちを失った家族たちに心からの哀悼を表明します。APTUF地震対策基金
* 連絡先 全パキスタン労働組合連合 (APTUF):
14-N, Industrial Area, Gulberg, Lahore - Pakistan.
Tel: 00 92-42-5755078 and 00 92-42-5755079 Fax 00 92-42-6665301 -
Mail: aptuf@brain.net.pk; rubinawwo@nexlinx.net.pk女性労働者委員会
E5, 48/A, Rehmania Street, Zaman Colony,
Cavalry Ground Extension Lahore - Pakistan ?
mail :rubinawwo@nexlinx.net.pkガルサー・アーメド・チャンドリー
全パキスタン労働組合連合(APTUF)事務局長
＜パキスタン地震被災者支援のカンパ送金口座＞
郵便振替 ： 00180-3-137822 APWSL日本委員会
<2nd report>
Brief about earthquake & relief work for earthquake victims in Pakistan
All Pakstan Trade Union Federation called its meeting, In which volunteers, working in earthquake area and APTUF office bearers participated. The volunteers reported in the meeting about the worse situation and how the relief work is going on.
It was discussed in the meeting that the military government has totally failed to provide essential relief commodities to earthquake victims because of lack of coordination, lack of planning how to send goods and things in every area to support earthquake victims. Thousands of severe injured children / women and people shifted to different hospitals in big cities of Lahore, Rawalpindi / Islamabad, Karachi, they lost their families because before shifting those people in different hospitals the officials did not maintained any record. Women and children are still in Trauma, it was also reported that some gangsters going to adopt children・there is a fear to involve children in trafficking.
It was discussed that the government did not have a plan to deal with the situation, appropriate emergency equipment, and the ability to coordinate and facilitate the outburst of public efforts. Where the huge defence budget is going to when, not have helicopters, cranes, and other adequate equipment to rescue people...two helicopters were used for VVIP movements, the foreign rescue helicopters are used to send the goods to victims, ...it was amazing that when the army was asked to bring in sniffer dogs for rescue efforts in Islamabad, they could only bring two and they too most probably from the anti-narcotic force or were totally untrained... further why has it not been possible to reach the remote villages in desperate need for relief and rescue.
Hundreds of thousands of homeless and displaced victims of the October 8 earthquake that devastated Pakistan-administered Kashmir and Northern Pakistan face the threat of disease and death from exposure unless the supply of weatherized tents and blankets increases dramatically and quickly. Almost two weeks after the earthquake, there is a massive shortage of tents even in Muzaffarabad, the hub of international and Pakistani relief efforts.
It was discussed that our strategies for coping with the aftermath reveal much about our socio-political structures. This tragedy may in effect become a mirror of the Pakistani state ・a mirror that induces the people to raise wide-ranging questions not only about its crisis managing capacities, but more significantly, about its very priorities and ethos as these have taken shape over successive decades and through various regimes. Specifically, the state failure to forge the country destiny and protect the common man future may not go unquestioned.
The absence of any governmental action in the affected areas soon after the earthquake also shows the absence of any contingency plan to deal with the occurrence of such a natural disaster.
It is a government of the elite by the elite and for the elite. Even the shift between civil and military led governments has impacted little upon this dynamic given the degree of convergence between the interests of these respective pillars of state. Thus, government remains cast in an elitist, colonial mode rather than being embedded within society.
The terrible loss of life and property incurred in the quake will haunt our nation for years to come. The relief operation called for by this quake will need to outlast the mere provision of blankets, food and tents. The next challenge is rehabilitation of battered communities and reconstruction of shattered infrastructure.
It was discussed that we have ability to provide for all our people, all we need is the will. In the months ahead, all those who believe in Pakistan must continue to display the same dedication and selflessness that has inspired ordinary people to throng to the task of rescuing helpless men, women and children from piles of mud and stone. We need to remind the occupants of high office that one cannot put Pakistan first by putting Pakistanis last.
Considering the scale of disaster, any country would need outside help to deal with it but what is important is the depth of the country's own response and the role of its leaders to lead the nation under difficult and challenging circumstances. We know that there are many public and private individuals and institutions going out of their way to reach out to the affected areas but the state as whole has clearly been brought to its knees as a result of their own inadequacies and insensitivities...This is indeed a time for serious reflection for the entire nation...it is important that the state own up to its failure to rise to the occasion, to be timely, to relevant.
It is confirmed that new deaths figures bring the total to 70, 000 (seventy thousands) in all area affected by the quake. The challenge was bigger than after the 2003 earthquake in Bam, Iran or even the 2004 tsunami.
More and more people are discovered with untreated injuries sustained in the earthquake and, increasingly, their wounds are becoming infected and gangrenous, our correspondent says.
Relief Efforts For Earthquake Effectees Underway APTUF/WWO was among those few trade unions that geared into action quickly after the earthquake and started working in earthquake-affected areas in NWFP and Kashmir.
APTUF launch a campaign and established APTUF Earthquake Relief Fund・ its members contributed their 1 ・day salary and collected one lakh rupees.
Understanding the need for swift action, All Pakistan Trade Union Federation / Working Women Organization respond with a comprehensive and well-coordinated relief work started in NWFP and Kashmir. APTUF 20 volunteers are working in above mention areas day and night. APTUF distributed blankets, warm cloths, dry food, medicines.
Problems and Hurdles
- Bad law of order situation: On the way to deliver the goods to earthquake victims the dacoits are attacking on Trucks and vans and looting goods.
- Any times the roads block because of land slide, volunteers have to stop the work
- Bad weather and snow falling.
- Lack of tents, blankets
- Prices of things shoot up
- Lack of female doctorsﾘ Lack of resources APTUF still working for the betterment of the needy people, childrens and women, lost every thing.
Rubina Jamil
All Pakistan Trade Union Federation
14-N Industrial Are, Gulberg, Lahore
Pakistan
Tel: 92-42-6686382/6686519
<1st report>URGENT
All Pakistan Trade Union Federation (APTUF)
Calling for SolidarityVictims of Earthquake Needs Your Help!
All Pakistan Trade Union Federation shocked the damages and death increase of hundred thousands people of the Pakistan after an atrocious disaster hit Pakistan on Saturday morning, October 8, 2005.
This message calls for solidarity from all the organizations all over the world, asking them to contribute to the "APTUF Earthquake Relief Fund" it has set up to help provide victims with medicines, tents, blankets, food, drinking water and clothes.
The figures are stunning: the death toll may exceed 50,000 at the time we are writing. Thousands of children are still buried in the debris of their schools. About four millions people have been affected by the earthquake. Many roads are still blocked.
People crying with pain and with other lines and unconscious or the appalling scenes that greet one in the hospitals after the huge earthquake that hit the country on Saturday October 8th, 2005.
To help the victimize people, APTUF held an emergency meeting on October 9th, 2005. The federation expressed concern that the government seems to have no policy to deal with the crisis and is failed to provide the earthquake victims with necessary and prompt assistance.
APTUF has called for international solidarity. Meanwhile, it has resolved to ask all its members and office bearers to donate the equivalent of one day's earnings to the "APTUF Earthquake Relief Fund". It has mobilized its members to establish camps in NWFP and Azad Kashmir and affected provinces to help the victims.
On behalf of All Pakistan Trade Union Federation, we express our deepest sympathy for those families that have lost loved ones in the earthquake.
We request all people and organizations to kindly send tents, clothes, food, medicines, blankets and their donations to:
“APTUF Earthquake Relief Fund”
* Contact APTUF (All Pakistan Trade Union Federation):
14-N, Industrial Area, Gulberg, Lahore - Pakistan.
Tel: 00 92-42-5755078 and 00 92-42-5755079 Fax 00 92-42-6665301 -
Mail: aptuf@brain.net.pk; rubinawwo@nexlinx.net.pkWorking Women Organization,
E5, 48/A, Rehmania Street, Zaman Colony,
Cavalry Ground Extension Lahore - Pakistan ?
mail :rubinawwo@nexlinx.net.pkGulzar Ahmed Chaudhary
General Secretary
All Pakistan Trade Union Federation
