An independent United Nations expert is calling on the US to lift its crippling sanctions on Syria. Under the Caesar Act, US sanctions explicitly target Syria’s reconstruction in the aftermath of a catastrophic 10-year war.

Alena Douham, the UN Special Rapporteur on the impact of sanctions, says that the US sanctions are illegal and depriving Syrian civilians of their basic needs.

“People shouldn’t die, people shouldn’t suffer, and people shouldn’t fear whether they can survive after tomorrow, because they have neither medicine or food, because of the sanctions applied,” Douhan says.

Guest: Alena F. Douhan, UN Special Rapporteur on sanctions, and a professor at Belarusian State University.



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    • My comment was (with some letters now munged), “Imagine what the reaction would be if it were Īšŕåéļî Ĵéŵš rather than Syrian Arabs suffering.”

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