Sanctions

[Domitian]

Have many people did economic sanctions kill since the end of World War II? Can anyone give me some statistics?

[Non-Sectarian Bastard!]

The problem is that something like sanctions isn't measureble. If you put sanctions up, the death reason will be starvation, death by simple deases and hygiene problems. The problem is that you can't now who died of sanctions and who would die without sanctions.

Many, many Iraqi's have died of the sanctions, but the officialy it's starvation caused by weak economy.

But sanctions are criminal. The sanctions has only tightend the Iraqi people's faith in Saddam as fighter against the "Evil USA", because they experience every day how evil it is, in shape of food shortages.

[Weatherman]

1.7 million Iraqis have died as a direct result of the sanctions according to the U.N.

[Non-Sectarian Bastard!]

UN says it. So probaly it's much more. Don't forgot that the UN is heavily under the influence of the west and especially the US.

[Saint-Just]

A great number of people are dying in the DPRK after over 50 years of sanctions that have varied in severity. The U.S. has the audacity to ban the DPRK from trading any useful materials and then gives it food aid that it only needs as a result of the sanctions. Economically impairing the country to the point it can't produce enough food and then letting them barely survive with meaningless food aid as the rest of the economy is being driven into the ground. Bush then claims the country is starving its own people and therefore is part of an 'axis of evil'. But I put it to the U.S. that since they are the ones responsible for the food shortage of the Korean people that they, the U.S. are part of that so called 'axis of evil'.

Despite this we should not worry for the Korean people as yet.