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It is two years since the outcry about the numerous – sometimes fatal – illnesses caused by the depleted uranium weapons used by the USA and ΝΑΤΟ in the Gulf and Yugoslavia, and still nothing has been done. On the contrary, there is an immediate danger of these and/or even more dangerous weapons being used again in the imminent war against Iraq, where numerous cases of babies with birth defects and children with leukaemia and other forms of cancer have already been reported.
Greece too has soldiers who have been affected and are now suffering from various forms of cancer and being treated in secret. These weapons are scattered all over Greece. The government, having initially lied and denied that the armed forces had any such weapons, has since tried to play down the problem. As the Greek Medical Association for the Protection of the Environment Against Nuclear and Biochemical Threat rightly stated recently, ‘what we have is a small nuclear war that has already irreparably contaminated the Balkans’.
The good old international community, despite its meddling in terrorist laws and rapid reaction forces, has done nothing to ban depleted uranium weapons.
The European Parliament resolution makes some good points but fails to come down in favour of a complete ban, merely calling for a moratorium pending further study."@en1
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