In a June 13 speech to the International Manifesto Group, Vanessa Beeley, a well-known British journalist and activist who has lived in Syria for many years, charged that the barbaric Caesar sanctions imposed on Syria by the United States constitute a war crime. “The act of withholding means of sustaining life to [sic] innocent civilians in order to coerce an entire nation into submission to foreign agendas in the region must surely qualify as economic terrorism,” she charged. “I would argue that sanctions, when used as a brutal and vindictive component of a neo-colonialist hybrid war strategy, are arguably more devastating than a military war.”
And, she warned, “when they are imposed by global super-force nations against target nations like Syria, in conjunction with a proxy war that has been fomented and sustained by the same nations, it becomes as much a weapon of mass destruction as the terrorist/mercenary armies these U.S.-aligned nations have unleashed upon the Syrian people.” Beeley provided a devastating picture of how every single sector of Syria’s economy—fuel/oil, industry, healthcare, and electricity and transport have been decimated by the sanctions and by U.S.-allied jihadists. The U.S. Coalition, she charged, “is effectively following a policy of collective extermination of the Syrian people by military and economic means.” Her presentation to the International Manifesto Group was entitled, “Sanctions on Syria: A Silent Death And Killing Hope.”
https://thewallwillfall.org/2021/06/14/sanctions-on-syria-a-silent-death-and-killing-hope/
