They destroyed its economy, shattered a once-robust public health system and caused hundreds of thousands of premature deaths. HistoryAsItHappens podcast
When Americans, albeit briefly, reflected on the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion to overthrow Saddam in ’03, most minds focused on what came afterward: the military occupation, sectarian civil war and rise of the Islamic State terror group. In this episode of, the focus is on the sanctions regime that preceded the 2003 war, because economic warfare – imposed by the U.S. via the U.N.
“Salaries were no longer enough to pay for food. It changed the value of society where people had to find other ways to provide for their families. People started to take bribes or to steal from their jobs, or they took on additional jobs,” says, a native of Iraq who now works as a peace builder at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington. “People sold everything they had to eat. People sold all their furniture, including the doors in their homes.
Listen to Mr. Hamasaeed discuss how he survived the sanctions, their enduring impact on Iraqi society, and his work to preserve Iraq’s fragile peace today.
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