General information

Call No.:

350-4-3:55/1

Part of series

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

Located at

BetaSP NTSC #55 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00009860

Date of production

1998

Date

1998

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English

Duration

13 min.

Notes

Warning: graphic images.

Content

Form/Genre

Television program

Contents Summary

In this program, Ed Bradley interviews British physician, Dr. Christine Gosdin, who traveled to Halabja, a small village in northern Iraq, ten years after the mixed poison gas attack (mustard gas, and the nerve agents sarin, tabun and VX) which was ordered by Saddam Hussein and resulted in almost 5,000 dead and around 10,000 more injured. The chemical weapons were used by the Iraqi government forces in the Kurdish town of Halabja in response to the village's support of Iran during the Iraq-Iran war. Ten years after the attack, the international relief agencies had still not launched a serious investigation into the medical needs of the Kurdish-controlled town. Dr. Gosdin decided to go on her own to identify the effects of gas poisoning on the remaining population. This program documents part of the physician's time in Halabja, focusing on the severe genetic alterations the nerve gas has caused, and the implications these mutations have for future generations in the village.

Context

Associated Names

Solomon Langley, Jeanne (Producer)

CBS (Producer)