It's Time to Call Economic Sanctions What They Are: War Crimes

Cockburn, Patrick
http://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/22/its-time-to-call-economic-sanctions-what-they-are-war-crimes/
Date Written:  2018-01-22
Publisher:  CounterPunch
Year Published:  2018
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX22194

Cockburn argues that economic sanctions impose collective punishment on the general population rather than targetting the people in power.

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The first pathetic pieces of wreckage from North Korean fishing boats known as "ghost ships" to be found this year are washing up on the coast of northern Japan. These are the storm-battered remains of fragile wooden boats with unreliable engines in which North Korean fishermen go far out to sea in the middle of winter in a desperate search for fish.

Often all that survives is the shattered wooden hull of the boat cast up on the shore, but in some cases the Japanese find the bodies of fishermen who died of hunger and thirst as they drifted across the Sea of Japan. Occasionally, a few famished survivors are alive and explain that their engine failed or they ran out of fuel or they were victims of some other fatal mishap.

The number of "ghost ships" is rising with no fewer than 104 found in 2017, which is more than in any previous year, though the real figure must be higher because many boats will have sunk without trace in the 600 miles of rough sea between North Korea and Japan.

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