Disabled Afghans protest against US decision to seize foreign assets
NANGARHAR, AFGHANISTAN – FEBRUARY 23: Disabled Afghans carried out a protest on Friday, Feb 23, against the US President Joe Biden’s executive order to seize half of $7 billion in assets held in US financial institutions.
Protestors who lost their limbs during incidents of violence in the country’s eastern province of Nangarhar claimed that they were also victims of attacks and demanded compensation.
During the demonstration, protestors chanted slogans and held banners.
On Feb. 13. Biden issued an executive order, splitting Afghanistan’s central bank’s $7 billion, allocating half for humanitarian relief to the poverty-stricken country ravaged by 42 years of war, while keeping the other half available for compensation to victims of the 9/11 attacks.
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