This is something I find very uncomfortable and I wondered what others thought.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-51487712
Sudan is to pay $30,000,000 dollars to the families of 17 persons killed in the attack on the USS Cole. The bombing was carried out by Yemenis in Yemen, and masterminded by a Saudi, on behalf of al-Qaeda in 2000. Sudan had expelled al-Qaeda and OBL in 1996. The government of Sudan has changed since then and those in power are not those in power in 2000. The responsibility of Sudan and in particular the Sudanese people for the bombing seems distant particularly in comparison with some countries who would appear to have a far more direct connection with the events e.g. Yemen.
Sudan is the poorest country in the world by mean wealth per adult ($534), and the US the third wealthiest ($432,365).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...alth_per_adult
My guess is the families of those persons killed are wealthy by Sudanese standards, and getting an additional $1 million would make them fabulously rich. My guess is that the families of these US servicemen / women get a variety of veterans benefits. Whilst the money that the Sudanese government will pay will mean less for education health care etc.
US government revenue is $6 million million (trillion), Sudan's $ 8 thousand million (billion). So this is equivalent to the US having to pay compensation of $ 30 billion. In comparison the US paid $62 million in compensation for the 290 deaths when the US Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 an act for which the US government is clearly more directly culpable than Sudan is for the attack on the USS Cole.
I am uncomfortable about the poorest people in the world having to give what for them is a large amount of money to 'wealthy' people for something which was not their fault. If there were Sudanese people responsible they are not in power and will not be punished by this. this is the sort of collective punishment which most people and international law suggests is wrong.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-51487712
Sudan is to pay $30,000,000 dollars to the families of 17 persons killed in the attack on the USS Cole. The bombing was carried out by Yemenis in Yemen, and masterminded by a Saudi, on behalf of al-Qaeda in 2000. Sudan had expelled al-Qaeda and OBL in 1996. The government of Sudan has changed since then and those in power are not those in power in 2000. The responsibility of Sudan and in particular the Sudanese people for the bombing seems distant particularly in comparison with some countries who would appear to have a far more direct connection with the events e.g. Yemen.
Sudan is the poorest country in the world by mean wealth per adult ($534), and the US the third wealthiest ($432,365).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...alth_per_adult
My guess is the families of those persons killed are wealthy by Sudanese standards, and getting an additional $1 million would make them fabulously rich. My guess is that the families of these US servicemen / women get a variety of veterans benefits. Whilst the money that the Sudanese government will pay will mean less for education health care etc.
US government revenue is $6 million million (trillion), Sudan's $ 8 thousand million (billion). So this is equivalent to the US having to pay compensation of $ 30 billion. In comparison the US paid $62 million in compensation for the 290 deaths when the US Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 an act for which the US government is clearly more directly culpable than Sudan is for the attack on the USS Cole.
I am uncomfortable about the poorest people in the world having to give what for them is a large amount of money to 'wealthy' people for something which was not their fault. If there were Sudanese people responsible they are not in power and will not be punished by this. this is the sort of collective punishment which most people and international law suggests is wrong.
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