General information

Call No.:

350-4-3:90/1

Part of series

HU OSA 350-4-3 Records of the International Monitor Institute: Middle East: Iraq

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #90 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009895

Date of production

2000

Date

2000

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English

Duration

1 hour 27 min.

Notes

The program contains TV adds.

Content

Form/Genre

Documentary film

Contents Summary

Film exposing the devastating effects that UN sanctions had on Iraqi children during the 1990s. John Pilger and Alan Lowery travel 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 find a suffering nation held hostage to the compliance of a dictator, Saddam Hussein, over whom they have no control. Interviewees: Dennis Halliday (Former Asst. Secretary General, United Nations), Robert Gates (CIA Director, 1991–1993), 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 (Pediatrician), Dr. Jawad Al-Ali (Cancer specialist), Laith Kubba (Iraqi opposition exile), Felicity Arbuthnot (Journalist), and Hussain Jarsis (Shepherd).

Context

Associated Names

Frost, Joe (Editor)

Pilger, John (Creator/Author, Reporter)