Editor:
There have been many well-founded sentiments of outrage expressed regarding the revelations of the 215 children found in an unmarked grave outside a Kamloops residential school.
I believe the best way to honour those children who lived and died horrifically is to never let another child experience such tragedy. Right now, our Canadian government is killing many children around the world under the insane use of sanctions.
Sanctions are used to overthrow governments, regime change as they like to call it.
Our government declares another government of mistreating their people, so they employ sanctions, which actually end up hurting and starving the people.
In the 90s, in Iraq, the UN determined that sanctions killed an estimated 500,000 children. Sanctions stop countries from being able to trade and punishes any country that will trade with the sanctioned country. It stops food and medicine from reaching the people.
Right now Syria, Iraq and Venezuela are being sanctioned and the children are suffering. The disingenuous claim that our government wants to help suffering people while imposing incredible suffering on said people, exposes their lies. Usually, the regime change is for oil, mineral resources or something else. Quite often the alleged crimes against the people are manufactured and not real, but are used as an excuse to overthrow a government.
I would urge people to channel their anger into a productive drive to hold our sanctimonious politicians to account, to stop meddling in other countries affairs, stop lying to us, and stop killing children.
Shelley Bevandick
