The New Rulers Of The World By John Pilger

The author, John Pilger, was one of the world’s renowned investigate journalists and documentary film-makers. John Pilger compiled a novel called The New Rulers of the World. In The New Rulers of the World, he wrote about four different topics in four different chapters, including the model pupil, paying the price, the great game, and the chosen ones. In chapter 2, paying the price, John Pilger had allowed numerous readers to understand the true nature of the West’s war against the innocent civilians in Iraq, especially the suffering of children due to the barbarous sanctions imposed by the United Nations.
After Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, the United Nations imposed economic sanctions on Iraq that lasted for almost ten years.
Civilians suffering in Iraq was not an unexpected collateral damage. The Security Council members have received countless warnings of the humanitarian emergency in Iraq and the damage done by the barbarous sanctions since after the Persian Gulf War. Warnings were from many officials and agencies, including WHO, UNICEF, and two humanitarian coordinators who have resigned. Denis Halliday had resigned as the UN’s Coordinator of Humanitarian Relief to Iraq in protest against the effects of the embargo on the civilians population (55). He saw that the supporters of the United Nations are destroying an entire society because the policy of economic sanctions is bankrupt (56). In 2000, Hans Von Sponeck, who had succeeded Denis Halliday as Humanitarian Coordinator, resigned because he believed that the civilian population of Iraq should not be exposed to such harsh punishments for which they have never done anything wrong (57). Lastly, Jutta Burghardt, head of the World Food Programme in Iraq, resigned because she could no longer condone what was being done to the Iraqi people
The effect was devastating because Iraq imported almost everything. During the eight months of sanctions when all shipments of food and medicines were banned, at least 47,000 children under the age of five had died (59).When food and medicines were exempted, the Sanctions Committee has regularly delayed and blocked requests for agricultural equipment, oxygen tents, x-ray machines, and baby food (60). As a result, many people especially children in Iraq suffered badly form the sanctions. According to Dr. Jawed Al-Ali, he said that “it’s thirty to thirty-five patients dying every month and per health departments” (49). A lot of patients died because the medications and treatments were not available. The United Nations Sanctions Committee, dominated by the Americans and British, has blocked or delayed a range of important medical equipment, chemotherapy drugs, including pain-killers (52). Lastly, the majority of those died were the poor and