Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq

Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq
Screenshot of title card
Directed by	Alan Lowery
Produced by	John Pilger Alan Lowery
Written by	John Pilger
Starring	John Pilger Dennis Halliday Robert Gates Hans von Sponeck Peter van Walsum Karol Sikora James Rubin Scott Ritter Said Aburish Doug Rokke
Music by	Nick Russell-Pavier
Cinematography	Preston Clothier
Edited by	Joe Frost
Production company	Carlton Television
Running time	74 min
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

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.^[1]^[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". Bullfrog Films. Retrieved 2010-06-11.
↑ "John Pilger Filmography 1970-2008". johnpilger.com. Archived from the original on June 3, 2009. Retrieved 2010-06-11.

External links

Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq at the Internet Movie Database

Documentaries of John Pilger

Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia (1979)
War By Other Means (1992)
Death of a Nation (1994)
Vietnam: The Last Battle (1995)
Inside Burma: Land of Fear (1996)
Apartheid Did Not Die (1998)
Welcome to Australia (1999)
Paying the Price (2000)
The New Rulers of the World (2001)
Palestine Is Still the Issue (2002)
Breaking the Silence (2003)
Stealing a Nation (2004)
The War on Democracy (2007)
The War You Don't See (2010)
Utopia (2013)

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