Lessons of war

In October 1990 YLE/Finnish Broadcasting Company produced a documentary on the way Iraq was introducing children and students in the political system and preparing them for the war. In that program, small school children were taught to swear allegiance to Saddam Hussein and college students trained for the people’s army, ready to die for their president. The film later won the Golden Nymph at the 1991 Monte-Carlo Television Festival.In 1991, the same team went back to Bagdad to see what lessons –if any- had been learnt in the war. They went to the same (...) the teaching continued as before or if anything had changed after the war which destroyed large areas of Bagdad and killed hundreds of thousand of Iraqi people