Sanctions Kill 500,000 Iraqi Children
[back] Genocide by Sanctions

Lesley Stahl: "I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. & — and you know, is the price worth it?"   Madeline Albright,   "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price — we think the price is worth it."----- Former U.N. Ambassador Madeline Albright, responding to reporter Lesley Stahl as to whether the over half a million Iraqi children killed by the UN sanctions against Iraq were "worth it." CBS May 11, 1996

[Media 2000] UN Says Sanctions Have Killed 500,000 Iraqi Children

[2000] Squeezed to death by John Pilger  Chlorine, that universal guardian of safe water, has been blocked by the Sanctions Committee. In 1990, an Iraqi infant with dysentery stood a one in 600 chance of dying. This is now one in 50. ....Just before Christmas, the department of trade and industry in London blocked a shipment of vaccines meant to protect Iraqi children against diphtheria and yellow fever...... "I had been instructed," he said, "to implement a policy that satisfies the definition of genocide: a deliberate policy that has effectively killed well over a million individuals, children and adults."

Nobody wants to know WHO killed half a million Iraqi children! by Elias Davidsson