[Siria] Las sanciones gringas están matando de hambre a los sirios (5 respuestas)
1 : Sin Nombre, firme junto a BaI@Casi al instante : 08/04/21(jue)00:22:03 ID:9GktIcqe0
>Great dollops of hypocrisy invariably accompany expressions of concern by outside powers for the wellbeing of the Syrian people. But even by these low standards, a new record for self-serving dishonesty is being set by the Caesar Civilian Protection Act, the new US law imposing the harshest sanctions in the world on Syria and bringing millions of Syrians to the brink of famine.
>Supposedly aimed at safeguarding ordinary Syrians from violent repression by President Bashar al-Assad, the law is given a humanitarian garnish by naming it after the Syrian military photographer who filmed and smuggled out of the country pictures of thousands of Syrians killed by the government. But instead of protecting Syrians, as it claims, the Caesar Act is a measure of collective punishment that is impoverishing people in government and opposition-held areas alike.
>Bad though the situation in Syria was after 10 years of warfare and a long-standing economic embargo, the crisis has got much worse in the nine months since the law was implemented on 17 June last year. It has raised the number of Syrians who are close to starvation to 12.4 million, or 60 per cent of the population, according to the UN.
>Already, more than half a million children under the age of five are suffering from stunting as the result of chronic malnutrition. As the Syrian currency collapsed and prices rose by 230 per cent over the last year, Syrian families could no longer afford to buy basic foodstuffs such as bread, rice, lentils, oil and sugar.
>The Caesar Act threatens sanctions on any person or company that does business with Syria and thereby imposes a tight economic siege on the country. Introduced just as the Covid-19 epidemic made its first onset in Syria last summer and soon after the implosion of the Lebanese economy to which Syria is closely linked, the law has proved the final devastating blow to Syrians who were already ground down by a decade of destruction.
>It was supposedly aimed at Assad and his regime, but there was never any reason to believe that it would destabilise them or compel them to ease repression. Since they hold power, they are well placed to control diminished resources. As with the 13 years of UN sanctions directed against Saddam Hussein between 1990 and 2003, the victims were not the dictator and his family but the civilian population. Iraqi society was shattered, with results that are still with us, and the same is now happening in Syria.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/03/23/the-war-of-hunger-is-taking-over-from-the-war-of-guns-and-all-syrians-are-the-victims/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_Syria_Civilian_Protection_Act
2 : Sin Nombre, firme junto a BaI@Casi al instante : 08/04/21(jue)00:23:54 ID:9GktIcqe0
Esto es similar a lo que ocurrió en Irak. En este artículo del 1999 el autor concluye que las sanciones gringas durante esa década fueron más devastadoras que todas las armas de destrucción masiva usadas hasta ese entonces.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20049279
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20049279
3 : Sin Nombre, firme junto a BaI@Casi al instante : 09/04/21(vie)16:57:32 ID:LJRiRxLt0
Por esto es que los derechos humanos son un chiste, solo existen para justificar este tipo de actos.
4 : Sin Nombre, firme junto a BaI@Casi al instante : 09/04/21(vie)19:34:49 ID:78kuPgkF0
La policía del mundo lo hace otra vez.
5 : Sin Nombre, firme junto a BaI@Casi al instante : 29/04/21(jue)13:56:27 ID:m53fHPAU0
Raro que los sirios amen matar a sus propios hijos más que aman no ser asesinados por Estados Unidos. Esto no amerita mayor investigación o reflexión.
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