MYANMAR INFORMATION COMMITTEE

YANGON

 Information Sheet

N0. C- 2700 (I/L)   18th July, 2003

Sanctions Used As Weapons of Mass Destruction

             Sanctions, by definition, shut down interaction and stop flow of ideas. They also impede economic growth and deprive the people of job opportunities. Sanctions, especially targetted at the developing countries, directly hurt health care and education.

             Sanctions, in short, are imposed on target countries by the rich and powerful nations mainly with the intention to create havoc and bring hardship on the mass population of the people who need work to live and require basic human needs to survive.

             One Asian diplomat drew an analogy between sanctions and WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction). "Both weapons are indeed intended to hurt the mass population of those target countries".

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