Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq | |
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Directed by | Alan Lowery |
Written by | John Pilger |
Produced by | John Pilger Alan Lowery |
Starring | John Pilger Dennis Halliday Robert Gates Hans von Sponeck Peter van Walsum Karol Sikora James Rubin Scott Ritter Said Aburish Doug Rokke |
Cinematography | Preston Clothier |
Edited by | Joe Frost |
Music by | Nick Russell-Pavier |
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Running time | 74 minutes |
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]
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.