Neil Mackay, the source www.sundayherald.com , seen on www.attac.it
The Americans and British are using uranium depleted uranium (DU) in the war against Iraq, expressing their contempt for a United Nations resolution which classifies these munitions as illegal weapons of mass destruction massa.Il DU (DU) contaminating the land, because diseases and cancers among the soldiers using these weapons, both among the soldiers against whom they are used and contamination as well as civilians, leading to the birth of children malformi.Il Professor Doug Rokke, ex-director of the Pentagon's depleted uranium project, former professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Jacksonville and formerly Colonel U.S. Army - deployed by the Department of Defense in the desert after the Gulf War, in remediation - has argued that the use of DU was a "war crime." Rokke said: 'Here we must analyze it from a moral point of view. This war concerns the possession by Iraq of illicit weapons of mass destruction, but we are using weapons of mass destruction. "Then he added:" These double standards are repellent. "The last time DU was used in conflict on Friday when a U.S. aircraft fired A! 0 DU covered by a missile, killing a British soldier and wounding three, an accident caused by "friendly fire." According to a report of the UN Commission in August 2002, violated the laws covering the use of depleted uranium include : The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the UN Charter, the Genocide Convention, the Convention against Torture, the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, the Convention on Conventional Weapons of 1980, and the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, which expressly prohibit the use of "poisons or poisoned weapons" and "arms, projectiles or materials that may cause unnecessary suffering." All these laws have the order to save unnecessary suffering to civilians in conflicts armati.Il DU has been accused of being the cause of Gulf War Syndrome, characterized by severe pain, muscle cramps, fatigue and memory loss-which affected about 200,000 U.S. soldiers after conflict of 1991.E 'also cited as a cause "of the increased number of births of deformed babies and cancer in Iraq following the first Gulf War." "The cancer seems to have increased between 7 and 10 times and deformities between births 4 to 6 times, "according to the report of the UN. The Pentagon has admitted that 320 tons of DU were left on the battlefield after the first Gulf War, although Russian military experts say that 1000 tons is a measure more accurata.Nel 1991, the Allies fired 944,000 rounds for about 2,700 tons of DU. A report dell'Autority Atomic Energy, drafted by Britain, says that about 500,000 people could die before the end of this century, due to radioactive waste left in the deserto.L 'use of DU has also led to defects among children born to veterans and allies, is believed to be the cause of the "worrying number of cases of children born without eyes in Iraq. Only one child in 50 million is the percentage of normal births with no eyes, yet one Baghdad hospital had 8 cases in two years. Seven of the fathers had been exposed to DU munitions in the U.S. 1991. There have also been cases of Iraqi babies born without the top of the skull deformity related to another DU. "A study of Gulf War veterans showed that 67% had children with severe illnesses, missing eyes, blood infections, respiratory problems and fingers unite.Rokke told the Sunday Herald: "The military personnel of a State can not willfully contaminate any other nation, cause harm to people and environment and then ignore the consequences of their actions. Doing so is a crime against humanity. We must do what is right for the citizens of the world to ban DU. "He has asked the U.S. and Britain to" recognize the immoral consequences of their actions and take responsibility for medical treatment to heal the environment. "He added:" We simply can not use ammunition that desertification and make a toxic area and kill indiscriminately. And 'the equivalent of a war crime. "Rokke said that coalition troops are currently fighting in the Gulf without adequate respiratory protection against contamination DU.Il Sunday Herald has previously revealed how the Ministry of Defence something like 6350 had tested missiles in the Solway Firth in more than a decade, from 1989 to 1999.
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