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The Help for Heroes charity is sharing tips for veterans from Afghanistan on looking after their wellbeing at a time when many will be struggling with feelings they haven’t been trained to cope with.
The tips include:
The news surrounding Afghanistan may be difficult for many of you & your loved ones.
Here’s our advice to support your wellbeing at this time:
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Britain should take the lead in paying reparations to rebuild Afghanistan, according to the Stop the War Coalition, which convened a gathering that was addressed outside parliament today by MPs including the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Today was a sombre one on which it was time to speak up for the vulnerable and learn the mistakes of foreign policy, he told the event, which took place as MPs prepared to gather for an emergency sitting of parliament to discuss the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan.
“There are two priorities today – the first is absolutely to support those trying to get out of Afghanistan, those who are at risk, those who have worked for the occupying forces, those that have worked for the government, those that have worked as contractors employed by the government and those particularly prominent women in society who are obviously very vulnerable and at very serious risk,” he said.
“Then, there has to be a realisation of what the foreign policy initiatives actually end up doing: costing us a great deal of money, costing us lives and not leading to the outcome they were predicted to do at the time.”
Corbyn was joined by other Labour MPs including Zarah Sultana, who said that more than 240,000 people had died as a result of the Afghan conflict and an entire region faced decades of instability. “Here we are again making those same arguments that you cannot bomb a country into democracy,” she added.
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