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Third World Children and the Impact of Sanctions

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years (Cortright, 2001). The controversy had emanated beginning in 1995 when researchers with a Food and Agricultural Organization presented a study that asserted sanctions were responsible for the deaths  of 567,000 (2001, p.20) Iraqi children. The New York Times picked up the story and claimed that Iraq sanctions did indeed kill children, a statement that CBS followed up with  a segment on 60 Minutes; the show reiterated the numbers and depicted sanctions as a murderous assault on children (2001). This was something that even Madeleine Albright claimed was true  but worth the price (2001). Such a position is hard to fathom, but there are those who believe that sanctions are necessary and that casualties that result are really  the fault of the noncompliant government and not the country that imposes the sanctions. Other arguments question the validity of numbers anyway. Are the children really dying in countries that  have endured sanctions or is it a problem that is exaggerated? Welch (2002) claims that the notion that sanctions in Iraq have killed half a million children emanated from the  1995 and 1996 time period on the basis of two flawed studies. One study had actually doubled the numbers of the studies statistics (2002). Another example demonstrates that  the statistics used were small. For instance, in August of 1995, based on just 693 households, it was claimed that child mortality increased close to five fold (2002). Anther study  in 1996, by WHO, noted that figures provided by the country of Iraq claimed that 186,000 children died under the age of five between 1990 and 1994 (2002). These  are the two studies which are widely quoted (2002). Clearly, the fact that the latter is based only on what Saddams government says is suspect. Based on the two questionable