Human Rights Lawyer: The United States has launched an economic war against the Afghan people.
A professor of international law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has called the president’s move to block $ 7 billion in assets of the Central Bank of Afghanistan an illegal form of economic warfare at the expense of the people.
Francis Boyle, a professor of international law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, told Sputnik that Joe Biden’s move to block $ 7 billion in central bank assets in the Federal Reserve in New York was an illegal form of economic warfare that starves Afghans.
“They [the Biden administration] are trying to satisfy public opinion by saying that they are using it for humanitarian purposes and presenting it step by step,” Boyle said. But this is just an economic war against the Afghan people. It is measured to buy time and be ineffective. They are brutally starving these poor people.
The international law expert further stressed that the Biden government has no right to arbitrarily seize the assets of the Afghan government, adding: “It is an obvious theft of the Biden government to give the assets of the Central Bank of Afghanistan to US citizens for any reason.” The Biden government is moving with bad intentions. He then said that under Article 2 of the 1948 Genocide Convention, the Biden government’s economic war against Afghanistan was on the verge of genocide by deliberately imposing living conditions that were calculated to destroy it in whole or in part.
Earlier, Mohammad Naeem, a spokesman for the Taliban’s political bureau, said the US decision to freeze Afghan funds held in US banks was a sign of US theft and moral decay.
US President Joe Biden on Friday ordered the freezing of $ 7 billion in Afghan assets and ordered that the blocked assets be turned over to the victims of the 9/11 attacks and humanitarian aid to Afghanistan. The White House has announced that the United States will create a $ 3.5 billion deposit fund to manage Afghanistan’s assets in the coming months to use the money to help the Afghan people. According to him, another $ 3.5 billion remains in the United States awaiting court rulings in legal cases against the Taliban by the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
