Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq
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Written byJohn Pilger
Directed byAlan Lowery
StarringJohn Pilger
Dennis Halliday
Robert Gates
Hans von Sponeck
Peter van Walsum
Karol Sikora
James Rubin
Scott Ritter
Said Aburish
Doug Rokke
Dennis Halliday
Robert Gates
Hans von Sponeck
Peter van Walsum
Karol Sikora
James Rubin
Scott Ritter
Said Aburish
Doug Rokke
Music byNick Russell-Pavier
| Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq | |
|---|---|
 Screenshot of title card | |
| Written by | John Pilger |
| Directed by | 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 |
| Music by | Nick Russell-Pavier |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Producers | John Pilger Alan Lowery |
| Cinematography | Preston Clothier |
| Editor | Joe Frost |
| Running time | 74 minutes |
| Production company | Carlton Television |
| Original release | |
| Release | 2000 |
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.
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 Organization
- 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 physicist
- Dr. Jinan Ghalib Hassen – Paediatrician
- Dr. Jawad Al-Ali – Cancer specialist
- Laith Kubba – Iraqi opposition exile
- Felicity Arbuthnot – Journalist
- Hussain Jarsis – Shepherd