Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq

Paying the Price is essential viewing if one of your course objectives is to increase your students' awareness of global issues, of fundamental human rights violations, or of the power of nations to legitimate the oppression and killing of innocent people in another. Yet, as the video makes cle...

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Published in:Teaching sociology 2001, Vol.29 (4), p.521-521
Main Author: Hironimus-Wendt, Robert J.
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Bush, George W
Children
Consciousness
Course Objectives
Death
Documentary films
Film and Video Reviews
Health services
Human rights
International trade
Killing
Malnutrition
Morbidity
Oppression
Sanctions
Video Technology
Weapons
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Summary:Paying the Price is essential viewing if one of your course objectives is to increase your students' awareness of global issues, of fundamental human rights violations, or of the power of nations to legitimate the oppression and killing of innocent people in another. Yet, as the video makes clear, United States and British enforcement of United Nations' trade sanctions has lead to chronic malnutrition, to the complete destruction of the Iraq's health care system, and has relegated Iraqi children to schools without books or desks, but with raw sewage flowing in the classrooms. The documentary includes interviews with U.S. State Department officials who flippantly dismiss the death toll, saying simply "we do not accept those figures," meaning the statistics on mortality and morbidity generated by the World Health Organization.
ISSN:0092-055X
1939-862X
DOI:10.2307/1318962