Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq

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.

Synopsis
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

Awards and festival screenings

 * Chris Award, Columbus International Film & Video Festival
 * Vancouver International Film Festival