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Embargo

  • Embargo
Type : Film essay
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1997
Format : Short
Running time : 8 (in minutes)

How does a body deprived of food live?
Embargo is the video of an autopsy, a fibre optic endoscopy which goes through the whole body from the brains to the anus. It shows that the embargo is the real surgical strike, that the embargo is a serial-killer.
As a matter of fact, the international community does not see the damage that the embargo can cause among a population. Twenty-seven countries have suffered or are still suffering the effects of various kinds of embargos : from Angola to Cuba, from Cyprus to Sudan, from Vietnam to Yemen etc…
Nowadays in Iraq, every eight minutes, a child under five dies either of illness or of malnutrition because of the lack of food and medicine. Civilian populations are still suffering in spite of the 986 UN Security Council's resolution, a resolution known as "oil for food". In fact, peoples have suffered this international "fatwa" for years, a fatwa imposed upon them in the name of the condemnation of their governments which they didn't choose. This measure merely reinforces the power of dictators who control the distribution of food supplies.

Dir. Mounir Fatmi

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