"Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq" by John Pilger

After Iraq invaded Kuwait, In the 10 years (1991-2001) of sanctions imposed on Iraq by the UN, US and UK, the harsh restrictions on imports of everything, including access to key medicines, resulted in more deaths than the two atomic bombs combined. The point was regime change, but it never came. The overwhelming majority of those killed were the poor, elderly, women and children. Empirically, sanctions overwhelmingly punish the poor, the destitute. While the sanctions were in place, the richest people in control of the resources (Saddam Hussein et al.) still had everything they wanted: food, cars, mansions, access to the best medicines, etc. Award-winning journalist John Pilger has documented the reality of UN harsh sanctions in this hard-hitting film.