[R-G] [BillTottenWeblog] NATO Still Killing People in Kosovo

[Bill Totten]

Back in 1999 NATO carried out a 78-day shelling of Serbia and Kosovo.
They allegedly used depleted uranium which continues to kill people.

www.javno.com (November 11 2008)


Nine years after NATO's bombing of Serbia, the North Atlantic Treaty
Organisation is still taking lives in Kosovo, Serbia's Pressonline
reported. The NATO allegedly used shells with depleted uranium which are
still today causing an increase in the number of cancer patients.

Prior to 1999, the number of Serbs who suffered from malignant tumours
was three times lesser, according to the statistics of Serb hospitals.
In Kosovo's Kosovska Mitrovica in 2005 there were 38 percent more cancer
patients than in 2004.

In those two years, a total of 3,500 cancer cases in Kosovo Albanians
were diagnosed.

Globally, six people out of a thousand suffer from malignant tumours on
average. In the Kosovska Mitrovica hospital, there are 200 cancer
patients to 1,000 people.

After 2000, groups of experts in atomic energy tested water, food, air,
plants and animals to establish the damage caused by radiation from NATO
shells. Beta and Gamma radiation was higher than the permissible level
and radiation was discovered in the soil, water, plants and animals.
After it gets into the soil, it takes some 250 years for depleted
uranium to degrade.

The conclusions of the studies were that the environment on 100
locations in Kosovo was not safe for animals or people, but no bans or
moving of the population was carried out.

European peace troops stationed in Kosovo knew there was great danger of
radiation in these areas. Italian military experts concluded in 2005
that 34 soldiers had died from leukaemia and various malignant tumours.
Since then 150 soldiers from Kosovo were sent home.

In mid-2000 NATO published a map with 112 marked locations that had been
shelled with depleted uranium. Over the 78 days of NATO bombing, a total
of 31,000 shells with depleted uranium, weapons banned by international
treaties, were dropped in Kosovo.

http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=204500

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