Hasan Hadi, the first filmmaker from Iraq to be selected for the prestigious Cannes Festival, said that economic embargoes like those imposed in his childhood under Saddam Hussein do not work."Sanctions empower dictators," he told AFP, claiming that they concentrate scant resources in their hands and only make them "more brutal"."In the history of the world, there was no one time when they (imposed) sanctions and the president couldn't eat."
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Iraq's first filmmaker in Cannes says sanctions no piece of cake
