Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq
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This John Pilger film looks at UN sanctions driven by the US and Brittan. The sanctions were supposed to force Saddam Hussein into giving up his chemical and biological weapons which had been sold to him by the US and countries in Europe like Brittan.The sanctions didn’t do much to Saddam Hussein, but they did killed a half a million Iraqi children.
The sanctions called the “Oil for Food Program” were managed by the UN Special Commission (UNSCOM).
The U.N. sanctions denied basic necessities like medical equipment, antibiotics, vaccines, cancer medication, and morphine for dying cancer patients.
Iraq has a lot of cancer patients because the U.S. and Brittan used shells coated with depleted uranium while bombing Iraq, and they did it for years.
John Pilger travels to Iraq with former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, Denis Halliday. This is the first time Halliday returned since he resigned in protest over the sanctions in September 1998.
Pilger also exposes the suffering caused by the illegal bombing campaign that was conducted by the US and Britain in the “no-fly zones”.
Bullfrog Films makes this film available to activist groups for the low price of price of $39 (TV rights are NOT available). You are not able to charge for the cost of tickets to rent out a theater, but you can do public screenings in libraries, or try to get local theaters to play the film in film festivals.
For more information check out the Activist Page on Bullfrog Films for Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq.
A personal copy of Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq can be ordered from Bullfrog Films for $29.95
