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While I agree the restrictions the regular Sudanese population must face are deeply regrettable, it's easy to see why they're in place, and it's mostly Sudan's
by enko 13y ago
While I agree the restrictions the regular Sudanese population must face are deeply regrettable, it's easy to see why they're in place, and it's mostly Sudan's fault. I know people working at a cc payment gateway company you've probably heard of, and they regularly block whole countries because of widespread fraud and the fact that the local police simply do not care about their citizens stealing from foreigners and will do nothing. It's too much to expect companies to open the gates and constantly lose money to fraud just on the off chance one of the transactions might be to an honest actor.
Don't even get me started on the stories I hear from my friend at Western Union. It's very hard to do business with a country where there is simple no rule of law as we know it. The sanctions are likely a symptom of that, not the cause.
- osmnshkh 13y agoThe sanctions are in place because the Sudanese government has numerous human rights violations and supported terrorist elements in the 90s, including Osama Bin Laden. The issue is that the sanctions hurt regular people way more than the government. The government is a dictatorship that has been in power since 1989, there are protests against the government almost every year, usually ending in a few deaths. I'm not sure if fraud has anything to do with it, but I can see that it may be an issue.
- Ihmahr 13y agoThe reason that they were sympathetic to Osama Bin Laden was because he was building roads, schools and hospitals in Sudan while the rest of the world didn't give a shit.
- darkarmani 13y agoOf course. You need roads so you have somewhere to detonate IED roadside bombs.
- osmnshkh 13y agoFind me an example of an IED roadside bomb being used in Sudan.