Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq

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Paying the Price:
Killing the Children of Iraq
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Directed byAlan Lowery
Written byJohn Pilger
Produced byJohn Pilger
Alan Lowery
StarringJohn Pilger
Dennis Halliday
Robert Gates
Hans von Sponeck
Peter van Walsum
Karol Sikora
James Rubin
Scott Ritter
Said Aburish
CinematographyPreston Clothier
Edited byJoe Frost
Music byNick Russell-Pavier
Production
company
Release date
  • 2000 (2000)
Running time
74 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

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 GatesCIA 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 Organization
  • James RubinUS State Department spokesman
  • Scott RitterUN 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 physicist
  • 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[]

  1. ^ "Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq". Bullfrog Films. Retrieved 11 June 2010.
  2. ^ "John Pilger Filmography 1970-2008". johnpilger.com. Archived from the original on 3 June 2009. Retrieved 11 June 2010.

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