Melbourne screening of John Pilgers latest documentary
"Paying the Price, killing the children of Iraq"
Time : 2pm
Date: Saturday May 13
Place: Hayden Ray Smith Room, 4 Floor
ROSS HOUSE, 247 Flinders lane, Melbourne
Light refreshments provided, Waged $5.00 Unwaged $3.00
Further details contact Pekka or Pauline on 9663 3677 at C.I.C.D.
This stunning Documentary has shaken the UK and Ireland when it was first
aired on Britain's ITV channel Monday, March 6. Several recent reports have
recorded the growth of infant mortality, cancers and malnutrition following
10 years of sanctions. John Pilger's 90-minute film revealed the tragic
human story behind the statistics. Pilger visited hospitals, cancer
clinics, schools and downtown markets in Baghdad. He interviewed doctors,
artists, teachers, parents and aid workers about the enormous increase in
poverty and lack of the most basic amenities, resulting from the Gulf War
and UN-imposed economic sanctions�the most comprehensive blockade of any
economy in modern history.
Pilger's documentary focuses, on the plight of the children of Iraq, on the
dreadful effect that the sanctions have had on their health and nutrition,
on the lack of medicines to treat leukemia and other cancers whose sharply
increased incidence obviously derives from the radioactive pollution left
behind by the Gulf War.
Dr Jinan Ghalib Hassen, a pediatrician, was interviewed at length, with her
listless young patients in the background; and Denis Halliday, a former
assistant secretary-general in the UN who resigned over the sanctions
issue, introduced viewers to a beautiful young girl who had been cured of
leukemia, but only because he was personally and illegally able to supply
her with the right medicines. "
Pilger asks: "Why the suffering of the Iraqi people have been allowed to go
on year after year? Is there a hidden agenda? The US wants to control oil
from the Gulf to the former Soviet Republics. Starvation and bombing of
Iraq a blueprint for this strategy."
Pilger's final words "At the dawn of the millennium how is the world to be
judged? When those politicians talk about ethical foreign policy, and moral
crusades, do they justify the suffering of twenty one million people held
hostage for the brutality of their dictator? Madeline Albright thinks that
the price is worth it. No it is not. It is time that we reclaim the United
Nations. While you have been watching this program countless children have
died."
LL.VE
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