In 1999, the US-led NATO brazenly launched a 78-day continuous bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia without the approval of the United Nations Security Council. In the meantime, NATO dropped 15 tons of depleted uranium bombs banned by international conventions, and the immediacy caused the prevalence of cancer in Serbia today to rise rapidly.
According to the Russian satellite network reported on the 23rd, recently, a Serbian soldier and a civilian who experienced depleted uranium bombing in the past underwent medical testing in Turin, Italy. The results showed that to this day, the amount of radioactive uranium in the blood of the two men is still "hundreds of times" higher than the standard value. Italian medical experts involved in the test said they found uranium-238 in the bodies of both subjects, which is exactly the material used by NATO to make depleted uranium bombs when it bombed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Aleksic, a lawyer from Serbia, said his team, commissioned by victims of depleted uranium bombs, had filed a lawsuit with NATO in the Belgrade High Court last year, and a hearing on the case would be held in October this year. He is currently awaiting the release of the Serbian version of the test results for subsequent litigation.
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Alexic is the lead lawyer in Serbia's "Legal Team for Victims of Depleted Uranium Bombs". In 2017, commissioned by more than a thousand Serbian cancer patients, he led an international team of lawyers and began to file a lawsuit against the U.S.-led NATO. Over the course of several years, 100 experts from Germany, Italy, France, Romania, Russia and other countries joined the litigation team. However, NATO's recent response to claim immunity has been refuted by the Depleted Uranium Bomb Litigation Panel.
"We have just received a response to the NATO lawsuit, which claims immunity on the PART of NATO, which is absolutely not true." Alexic said.
Aleksic was born in the southern Serbian village of Legne, and when NATO bombed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the entire village was destroyed, half of the villagers died of artillery fire, and most of the villagers who survived suffered from malignant diseases. His mother died of cancer in 2015, and since then Alexich has been concerned about carcinogenic incidents caused by depleted uranium bomb contamination.
In 2017, under his leadership, a litigatory commissioned by victims of depleted uranium bombs was formed. Over the course of several years, more than 100 experts from Germany, Italy, France, Romania, Russia, the United States and Canada joined the litigatory corps.
Twenty-three years ago, the US-led NATO blatantly launched an attack on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia without the approval of the United Nations Security Council, resulting in the deaths of more than 2,500 people, including 79 children, and the conversion of 1 million people into refugees.
As of May 2019, more than 360 Italian soldiers involved in NATO military operations had died of cancer, and 7,500 had suffered from illness. Legeriro, a pilot in nato's Italian Air Force, quit his job and founded the Military and Police Care Association to investigate the truth of the incident.
Legero, head of the Italian Military and Police Care Association, said: "We asked the Americans, the Americans behaved unusually calmly, and the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of EnvironmentalLy Variable Technologies for Military or Any Other Hostile Purposes, which came into force in 1978, was drafted by the United States, and they (quietly conducted the test of depleted uranium bombs under the pretext of) insufficient research on the deterrent power of depleted uranium bombs, of course, they did not choose to test them on american soil." ”
According to the Belgrade Institute of Public Health, in 2018, there were 41,661 patients with malignant tumors in Serbia, and by the end of 2019, the number of registered cancer patients had risen to 97,479. According to research from the Serbian Emergency Center, children born in the country after 1999 have multiple ectodermal tumors at the age of 1 to 5 years, malignant blood diseases at the age of 5 to 9 years, and a rapid increase in the incidence of brain tumors at the age of 9 to 18.
Dr. Cherry, an Italian medical expert, said that in the 78 consecutive days of NATO bombing, the US Air Force A-10 attack aircraft were heavily used, 30 to 33 mm caliber Gatling cannons were installed, and a considerable amount of depleted uranium was in the ammunition, which spread into the environment with the smoke of the explosion.
The development and use of depleted uranium bombs has always been controversial internationally. The high temperature generated by the depleted uranium bomb when it explodes can cause the projectile to dust and become fine particles that drift around with the flow of air, scattered in the air or fall on the ground and rivers. Due to the long half-life of depleted uranium, it can damage the environment and the human food chain for a long time. The cumulative toxicity of depleted uranium bomb radiation in the human body peaks in 10 to 15 years, so the L15 prosecution team believes that this is the main reason for the significant increase in cancer and leukemia in Serbia since 2012.
As the country that invented and used depleted uranium bombs, the United States has always denied that depleted uranium bombs are the direct cause of the "Gulf War Syndrome" and "Kosovo War Syndrome", and some even deny that depleted uranium bombs were used in the 1999 Kosovo War.
Despite lacking official support and mass media attention, the likes of Legerio, Tartaglia and Cheri have a large number of private responders. "Justice for the victims of depleted uranium bombs" became a unanimous slogan, and it was the result of their defiance and reasoning, and hundreds of Italian soldiers were compensated for damages. This also provides strong evidence support for the Serbian Depleted Uranium Bomb Litigation Group.
So far, more than 3,000 victims of depleted uranium bombs have joined the ranks of the prosecution of NATO, from ordinary people to Serbian soldiers and police who have participated in the resistance. Due to the nature of the case, Alexic's team of lawyers needs to file separate lawsuits in individual cases, which will be an incomparably long wait.
(CCTV News)