The dictionary defines ’sanctions’ as “restrictions upon trade and financial dealings that a country imposes upon another for political reasons”– A practice that in recent years has become a prime instrument of global dominance by a handful of major powers particularly the United States.
With permanent membership status in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), world’s most powerful countries have passed numerous resolutions imposing sanctions on more than a dozen nations, including the former Yugoslavia, Cuba, Libya, Somalia, Liberia, Haiti, Iraq, and Iran since the end of cold war. <<<<<<<
So people can die from economic strangulation, not just bombs and bullets. If you read on in the story, up to 1,000,000 of Iraqis who are younger than 5-years old have died as a result of these sanctions. As a father of children, I contemplate, how would I feel about a country or entity that did that to my children?
Stumble It!
