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Truth and death in Iraq under sanctions
Author(s) -
Spagat Michael
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2010.00437.x
Subject(s) - sanctions , causation , political science , law , law and economics , criminology , sociology
Sanctions applied against Saddam Hussein's Iraq “caused 500 000 children to die”. The figure, and the causation, is quoted by politicians and pressure groups. Is it justified, or were the statistics manipulated by one of the nastiest regimes on earth? Michael Spagat looks at the evidence.