| Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq |
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| Directed by | Alan Lowery |
| Produced by | John Pilger Alan Lowery |
| Written by | John Pilger |
| 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 |
| Cinematography | Preston Clothier |
| Editing by | Joe Frost |
| Studio | Carlton Television |
| Running time | 74 min |
| 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 documantary Pilger argues that UN sanctions had a devastating effect on the children of Iraq during the 1990s.[1][2]
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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 find a suffering nation held hostage to the compliance of a dictator, Saddam Hussein, over whom the Iraqi people no control.
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