Sanctions in Serbia hurt the poorest, says aid network Draconian sanctions against Serbia are causing untold suffering, Boris Radovic, director of the International Aid Network said in London on 24 March. Poverty levels have doubled in the last year to 63 per cent. More than 500,000 people, many of them refugees housed in makeshift shelters, are in desperate need of humanitarian aid. Wages have plummeted.
Hospitals have no bandages or drugs.
These latest sanctions, combined with the effects of 10 years of war, are destroying the country, Mr Radovic said. They do the opposite. They punish the poorest people while putting money into the pockets of their oppressors who control the black market. If they were stopped there would be an immediate psychological effect. Milosovic trades on the fact that he can tell people the West hates them.