Kabul-Sana
A crowd of Afghan citizens demonstrated in the capital, Kabul, demanding the United States to pay compensation for tens of thousands of victims of its war on their country, and denouncing its decision to seize half of the Afghan Central Bank's frozen assets under the pretext of financing humanitarian aid.
The Associated Press reported today that the demonstrators condemned US President Joe Biden's order to release 3.5 billion dollars of Afghan assets owned in the United States to the families of the September 11 victims, saying that these funds belong to Afghans and therefore the US administration is stealing the money of the Afghan people.
She added that the protesters who gathered outside the grand Eid Jah mosque in Kabul demanded that America compensate financially for the tens of thousands of Afghans who were killed during the past twenty years of the US war in Afghanistan.
In a related context, Torek Farhadi, the financial advisor to the former Afghan government, questioned the United Nations’ management of the reserves of the Central Bank of Afghanistan, and said that these funds are not intended for humanitarian aid, but “to support the currency of Afghanistan and help with monetary policy and manage the country’s balance of payments.”
He added that "these reserves belong to the people of Afghanistan, not the Taliban... Biden's decision is unilateral and is not in line with international law," explaining that "no other country on earth takes these confiscation decisions regarding the reserves of another country."
Washington froze Afghan assets under the pretext of the Taliban's seizure of power in August, while officials in the US administration claimed yesterday that they are working to ensure that the Afghan people benefit from the part that will be released, which is 3.5 billion dollars.
It is noteworthy that the United States of America announced on August 30, 2021 the completion of the withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan after twenty years of occupying this country under the pretext of the war on terrorism.
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