WFP "Propulsion to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon" evaluated by the Peace Prize Selection Committee October 10, 6:28
Regarding the WFP, which was selected for the Nobel Peace Prize this year, the selection committee evaluated that "it played a driving force to prevent hunger from being used as a weapon of war and conflict" in the reason for the award. doing.
In conflict areas around the world, "hunger" has been used as a weapon of war by deliberately driving civilians into hunger, such as by cutting off food aid supply routes.
In Syria, where the civil war continued, the town controlled by the rebels was surrounded by the Assad regime, and food and other supplies were delayed, causing the townspeople to suffer from hunger repeatedly.
Of these, from 2015 to 2016, Madaya, a town northwest of the capital Damascus, which was dominated by rebels, was besieged by the Assad administration's army for half a year, and residents including children starved one after another without food. I fell into a situation where I died.
Also, in the eastern part of Aleppo, which was the main base of the rebels, food could not reach due to the siege of the administration army, and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at that time expressed a sense of crisis that "hunger is being used as a weapon". I did.
In 2018, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution accusing "the act of starving civilians as a means of war could be a component of war crimes."
However, there have been many cases of hunger for people since then, and in a report issued this month by a committee established by the United Nations Human Rights Council, Africa's provisional unified government was launched in February. Regarding South Sudan, he points out that "hunger" was used as a weapon of war in the midst of repeated armed clashes between the government and rebels, both of which hindered the import of food.