Where’s Our Aid Money Gone?

Last Updated on December 27, 2017 by

UK Development aid intended to maintain stability in Northern Syria has apparently ended up in the hands I Jihadists who abuse human rights.

This is according to a recent BBC Panorama documentary, which aired this Monday.

The problem seemed to be down to one private UK company who DFID channelled the money through.

The programme uses document evidence and interviews with aid workers based in Turkey who talk about bags of UK tax payers aid money being handed over to Syrian peacekeeping forces – who were actually working with local Jihadists to ‘maintain a balance of power’ in the region

The document evidence seemed to prove that the company knew this was going on…

So how strong an argument does this evidence make against aid?

Not a very strong one outside of this specific case IMO.

Sources

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/04/panorama-syria-allegations-uk-aid-transparency-bbc

 

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