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Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq

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Production
  
Carlton Television

Duration
  

Language
  
English

8.4/10
IMDb

Initial release
  
2000

Genres
  
Documentary, War film

Country
  
United Kingdom

Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq movie poster
Director
  
John Pilger, Alan Lowery

Cast
  
John Pilger
,
Denis Halliday
,
Scott Ritter
,
James Rubin
,
Dr Jinan Ghalib Hussein

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paying the price killing the children of iraq part 1


Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq is a 2000 Carlton Television documentary written and presented by John Pilger which was directed by Alan Lowery. In this documentary Pilger argues that UN sanctions had a devastating effect on the children of Iraq during the 1990s.

Contents

paying the price killing the children of iraq part 2


Synopsis

John Pilger and Alan Lowery traveled to Iraq with Denis Halliday, a former assistant secretary-general of the United Nations who resigned over what he called the "immoral policy" of economic sanctions. There they expected to find a suffering nation held hostage to the compliance of a dictator, Saddam Hussein. What they found was a country being slowly strangled by a draconian U.S./U.K. blockade.

Interviewees

  • Dennis Halliday – Former Asst. Secretary General, United Nations
  • Robert Gates – CIA Director 1991-93
  • Hans von Sponeck – Chief UN co-ordinator, Iraq
  • Ambassador Peter van Walsum – Chairman, UN Sanctions Committee
  • Professor Karol Sikora – Former Chief of Cancer Programme, World Health Organisation
  • James Rubin – US State Department spokesman
  • Scott Ritter – UN Weapons Inspector 1991-1998
  • Said Aburish – Author, Saddam Hussein: The Politics of Revenge
  • Mohammed Amin Ezzet – Conductor, Iraqi National Orchestra
  • Anupama Rao Singh – UNICEF Representative, Iraq
  • Professor Doug Rokke – Former US Army health phycicist
  • Dr. Jinan Ghalib Hassen – Paediatrician
  • Dr. Jawad Al-Ali – Cancer specialist
  • Laith Kubba – Iraqi opposition exile
  • Felicity Arbuthnot – Journalist
  • Hussain Jarsis – Shepherd

    • Awards and festival screenings

  • Chris Award, Columbus International Film & Video Festival
  • Vancouver International Film Festival

    • References

    Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq IMDb