[ RadSafe ] Serbian Propaganda or News??

[Roger Helbig]

http://www.radionetherlands.nl/news/international/6228234/Serbia-marks-NATO-
-bombing-campaign

 

The following statement made as if it were "news" is not true

 

NATO began to bomb military and civilian targets after President Slobodan
Milosevic refused to end Serb operations in Kosovo, where a rebellion by
Albanian independence fighters was taking place. Serbia has never recognised
Kosovo, which declared independence in February 2008. 

 

Civilians and soldiers from both sides continue to die or get ill as a
result of NATO's use of cluster bombs and weapons containing depleted
uranium.

 

1.       How many civilians have died due to DU?  What proof do you have?
How many are ill?  What proof do you have?  Proof, by the way is not the
same as allegation.  Proof can be independently verified as "fact".

2.      How many soldiers have died due to DU?  What proof do you have?  How
many are ill?  What proof do you have?  Proof, by the way is not the same as
allegation.  Proof can be independently verified as "fact".

 

The UN Environment Programme made three extensive scientific expeditions to
the Balkans to examine sites where DU, fired as kinetic energy penetrators
from the 30mm cannon on the A-10 tank killer aircraft (no other aircraft
deployed to the Balkans carried the 30mm cannon and no tank-to-tank battles
ever occurred) - DU is not used in any conventional bombs or missiles.  Any
statement that mentions "bombing" with depleted uranium is thus immediately
suspect and any that claims that there were DU-tipped missiles is likely
suspect.

 

Here are the links to the 3 UNEP reports - they are extensive and even
include milking cows and testing the milk along with extensive sampling of
the air, water and ground and examining medical records - No one was found
to be sick, let alone dying from DU contamination.  Read the reports; there
are several hundred pages of them.

 

UNEP Final Report: Depleted Uranium in Kosovo - Post-Conflict Environmental
Assessment, 2001.

http://postconflict.unep.ch/publications/uranium.pdf

 

UNEP Final Report: Depleted Uranium in Serbia and Montenegro - Post-Conflict
Environmental Assessment in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 2002.

http://postconflict.unep.ch/publications/duserbiamont.pdf

 

Depleted Uranium in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Post-Conflict Environmental
Assessment, March 2003.

http://postconflict.unep.ch/publications/BiH_DU_report.pdf

 

The 30mm penetrator fired by the A-10 is completely shrouded in aluminum and
hundreds of these penetrators have been found to still be intact within the
aluminum shrouds years after the A-10 attacks on massed Serbian tanks.  You
can see a picture of one of these on page 32 of the Bosnia-Herzegovina
report.

 

Roger W Helbig

Richmond, California, USA

Independent DU researcher since 2004

 

I similarly doubt the statement with regards to cluster bombs, but I have
not researched that subject and thus can not directly dispute it - I would
suggest that you ask the same two questions, substituting the term "cluster
bombs" for depleted uranium.  Once you have determined that this is
pro-Serbian propaganda, I presume that you will widely make that fact known
and indicate that it is not true or that there is no known evidence to
support the statements.

 

Your article is as follows in "INTERNATIONAL NEWS"

Serbia marks NATO bombing campaign 

Published: Tuesday 24 March 2009 11:09 UTC 
Last updated: Tuesday 24 March 2009 11:09 UTC 

Serbia is marking the tenth anniversary of the start of an 11-week bombing
campaign by NATO, which was attempting to drive Serbian forces out of
Kosovo. Serbian leaders say the bombings, which according to Belgrade killed
around 2,500 civilians, were unnecessary and tragic.

NATO began to bomb military and civilian targets after President Slobodan
Milosevic refused to end Serb operations in Kosovo, where a rebellion by
Albanian independence fighters was taking place. Serbia has never recognised
Kosovo, which declared independence in February 2008. Civilians and soldiers
from both sides continue to die or get ill as a result of NATO's use of
cluster bombs and weapons containing depleted uranium.