Seeds of Carnage
By Christopher Dickey, Mark Dennis, Barbie Nadeau, Amanda Bernard & JohnBarry, © Newsweek International, 08/02/99
After the war in Kosovo, unexploded cluster bombs continue to kill andmaim dozens of victims. The United States dropped more than 200,000`bomblets' during the Kosovo bombing campaign, and these have killed andmaimed people ever since, most of whom are under 24 years of age.
http://www.newsweek-int.com/

Consigning Their Future to Death
By George Monbiot, © The Guardian, 04/22/99
Slowly, largerly silently, the NATO alliance is killing thousands ofcivilains. They are being neither bombed nor shot: the people of theformer Yugoslavia are being poisoned. Toxins from bombed chemical plantsand oil rafineries have soaked the soil across hundreds of square milesand percolated into the aquifers. The people of the former Yugoslavia, asa result, will be repeatedly exposed to them. Many of the compoundsreleased cause cancers, miscarriages and birth defects. Others areassociated with fatal nerve and liver diseases. The effects of the bombingof Serbia's economy equate, in other words, to low-intensity chemicalwarfare.
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3856854,00.html

NATO Bombs Left a Toxic Slough
By William Booth, © Washington Post, 07/21/99
The largest petrochemical complex in the Balkans now feels like apost-industrial ghost town, scarred by hellish fires and choked withtwisted debris. No one works here, except the U.N. inspectors who arrivedtoday, and they are very careful where they step. Just as the scorched andlooted landscape of Kosovo is a legacy of the late war, so too are the oilrefinery, fertilizer plant and petrochemical complex of Pancevo, whichwere heavily and repeatedly bombed by NATO warplanes. From their rupturedstorage tanks, they bleed a toxic witch's brew of ammonia, crude oil,liquid chlorine, hydrochloric acid, mercury and vinyl chloride monomers--acomponent of industrial plastics.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-adv/archives/advanced.htm

Doctor Blames West for Deformities
By Richard Norton-Taylor, © The Guardian, 07/30/99
Incidences of cancer, infertility and congenital abnormalities in Iraqhave increased dramatically, particularly in the battlefield zones wherelarge amounts of depleted uranium (DU) munition was used by US forces.Same type of ammunition was used against Serb targets in Kosovo in springof 1999.
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3888026,00.html

Kosovo's Wounded Environment
By Fran Ryan, © E, September 1999
The ecological consequences of the two-month-long NATO bombing campaign inKosovo are likely to reach catastrophic proportions, threatening to havelong-lasting effects throughout the Balkans. NATO specifically targetedoil refineries, chemical plants, fuel storage depots and industrialcomplexes. Many of these facilities housed highly toxic substances thatwere released into the air, water and soil.
http://www.emagazine.com/september-october_1999/0999curr_kosovo.html

The Soils of War
© Discover, November 1999
During the air campaign against Yugoslavia, NATO bombs struck industrialplants and electrical transformers, releasing thousands of tons of toxicchemicals. These emissions may be one of the war's most enduring legacies.They could endanger the health of millions of people for years to come,both in Yugoslavia and in surrounding countries.
http://www.discover.com/nov_99/break.html

Depleted Uranium Use in Kosovo
By Dr. Rosalie Bertell, International Institute of Concern for Public Health, Toronto
"The damage being done [by NATO's use of depleted uranium munitionsagainst Yugoslavia] will not only cause incredible and unending sufferingto today's victims, but the genetic damage it may cause can be passed onto their offspring. Such weapons and war itself need to be condemned asutter barbarianism!"
http://www.antenna.nl/wise-database/uranium/diss.html

The Mess NATO Left Behind
By Bill Mesler, © The Progressive, August 1999
The NATO-Yugoslav Conflict in 1999 left its toll on the Yugoslav landscapeand put residents of the region in risk of injury and death. Touchycluster bombs litter the landscape and bombed out oil industrial plantsleak hazardous chemicals. World leaders should do something to help.
http://www.progressive.org/toc9908.htm

Politically Depleted Munitions
By William M. Arkin, © Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November 1999
There is no conclusive proof of the adverse effects depleted uraniummunitions have upon the health of soldiers and civilians exposed to it.Although a political headache for the US government and Pentagon, it isnot likely to be abandoned as a weapon due to costs.
http://www.bullatomsci.org/issues/1999/nd99/nd99arkin.html

Agence France-Presse, 08/14/99
Yugoslavia could be threatened by an ecological catastrophe if urgentmeasures are not taken to alleviate the consequences of NATO bombings.
http://www.afp.com/

Depleted Uranium Weapons and Canada's Central Role in the Production ofthese Weapons
By Dr. Rosalie Bertell
[An Unjust and Illegal War: Leading Opponents of the War AgainstYugoslavia Speak Out. A public meeting held at Convocation Hall at the University of Toronto May6, 1999]
"This is chemical and radiological warfare - it's outrageous - it's a veryserious violation of human rights! I think this talk about chemicalwarfare in Iraq and violation of Human Rights in Serbia is outrageous -because if anyone is waging chemical and radiological warfare andviolating human rights it's NATO!" 

Conflict in the Balkans Affects the Geosciences
© Eos, 05/04/99
"Thousands of tons of oil derivatives have burned out or have poured outinto the soil or flown into channels and rivers," notes Zoran Cukic,Serbian National Coordinator of the Program for Danube PollutionReduction. "Thousands of tons of different fumes of burned oil, petrol,chemicals, etc. have been emitted into the atmosphere as the consequenceof fires following bombings."
http://www.agu.org/eos_elec/eeshome.html

Radioactive Weapons Used by U.S./NATO in Kosovo
© International Action Center, New York, NY, 04/01/99
"The use of Warthogs with DU shells threatens to make a nuclear wastelandof Kosovo," [Sara] Flounders, [a contributing author of "Metal ofDishonor: Depleted Uranium" and the Co-Director of the InternationalAction Center], said. " The pentagon is laying waste to the verypeople-along with their children-they claim to be saving; this is anotherreason for fighting to end NATO's attack on Yugoslavia."
http://www.iacenter.org/duyug.htm

The Trail of a Bullet
By Scott Peterson, © The Christian Science Monitor, 04/29/99
A Monitor investigation of the Persian Gulf war zone, where this [DepletedUnranium] bullet saw its first live action in 1991, found that it has leftthe desert sprinkled with radioactive and chemically toxic dust. Reportingfrom Iraq, Kuwait, and the US, this Monitor series examines thepossible long-term effects of this powerful spinoff of the nuclear age. If there isa connection between human suffering and DU, then its use in the futurewill mean that lands of conflict will remain contaminated for the 4.5billion years - a figure comparable to the age of the solar system - thatDU remains radioactive.
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/04/29/fp1s2-csm.shtml

Uranium bullets on NATO holsters
By Kathleen Sullivan, © San Francisco Examiner, 04/01/99
As the war against Yugoslavia escalates, NATO is expected to send U.S. AirForce attack jets to blast Yugoslav tanks with depleted uranium, aradioactive ammunition prized as a "tank killer" and deplored as along-term threat to human health.
http://eXaminer.com/990401/0401uranium.shtml

Uranium Weapon Fears in Kosovo; A-10 Can fire depleted uranium shells
By Alex Kirby, © BBC, 04/09/99
Many allied troops who served in the 1991 war say they are victims of GulfWar Syndrome (GWS), characterised by chronic fatigue, weight loss, anddefects in children born subsequently. In February, 16 British Gulf Warveterans said they had proof that they were suffering from radiationpoisoning, which they thought could be a factor in GWS. Doctors in Iraqsay children there have been damaged by the same radiation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid\_315000/315396.stm

Ecological Catastrophe - NATO Bombings in the Balkans
By Dr. Janet M. Eaton, The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe,Szentendre, Hungary, For the Bulletin, Quarterly Magazine, Volume 8, Number 4. Submitted July 7, 1999
When it became apparent that not only oil refineries but also majorpetrochemical, chemical and pharmaceutical plants were being targeted aswell, reports and articles began to emerge which resounded with horrorand disbelief that the civilian population, the environment and indeedentire ecosystems were now threatened, perhaps for generations to come,with an immense volume of toxic materials known to be highly hazardous tohuman health in the short term and to the integrity of ecosystems andbio-diversity in the longer term In particular, the final destructionof Pancevo Petrochemical Complex, one of the largest of its kind, bybombing and subsequent burning on April 18th simultaneously unleashedtoxic black clouds across the Balkans and shock waves of alarm from bothindividuals in the affected region and from an ecologically-concerned andhumanitarian international community alike.
http://www.flora.org/flora.mai-not/12187

Missile Strikes Pollute Danube
By Tom Walker, © The Globe and Mail, 04/19/99
An ecological disaster was unfolding yesterday after NATO missiles rippedapart a combined petrochemical, fertilizer and refinery complex on thebanks of the Danube River north of Belgrade. Scientists warned people tostay indoors and to avoid fish caught from the Danube. They said thepollution would spread downstream to Romania and Bulgaria and then intothe Black Sea. At least 50 residents of Pancevo were reported sufferingfrom phosgene poisoning and health ministry workers tried to round up gasmasks for belated protection. Residents were told to breathe through clothsoaked in water and bicarbonate of soda as a precaution against showers ofnitric acid and nitrogen compounds.
http://www.GlobeAndMail.CA/services/site/weesearch_options.html

Belgrade is Hiding Toxic Time Bomb, Greens Warn
By Rory Carroll, © The Guardian, 07/07/99
A delegation from the European Federation of Green Parties was appalled bya visit to Pancevo, a 150,000-strong town near Belgrade, where fires ragedfor 10 days after Nato air strikes on its oil refinery, fertiliser andpetrochemical plants. The cloud of smoke was more than 10 miles long.Environmentalis said that it would take several months to assess thedamage, but by then towns near bombed industrial plants could haveabsorbed hazardous chemicals into their water and food supplies.
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3881120,00.html

Team Begins to Assess Damage to Environment
By David Graves, © The Daily Telegraph National Post, 07/21/99
A team of scientists from the UN Environment Program yesterday began anassessment of possible environmental damage caused in Yugoslavia by the78-day NATO bombing campaign in an attempt to separate scientific factfrom scare stories.
http://www.nationalpost.com/home.asp

UN Team Sifts Serb Pollution
By Alex Kirby, © BBC, 07/23/99
International experts invited by the United Nations to assess theenvironmental damage caused by the Balkan war have arrived in the northernSerbian city of Novi Sad. They are taking samples, seeing how much of theoil was burnt, and trying to judge how much leaked into the groundwater.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_401000/401981.stm

Depleted Uranium Ban Demanded
By Alex Kirby, © BBC, 12/17/99
Two leading authorities on the effects of depleted uranium (DU), HariSharma, professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Waterloo,Ontario, and Doug Rokke, who teaches environmental engineering and nuclearphysics at Jacksonville State University in Alabama, have told UK Membersof Parliament of their fears for those exposed to the substance in Iraqand Kosovo. They said DU weapons should be banned, because their use was acrime against humanity. It contaminated the environment, and causedsuffering to civilians.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid%5F568000/568234.stm
 
 
 
 
 
 

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