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Portugal's Kosovo Soldiers to Have Radiation Tests, Diario Says
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Portugal's Kosovo Soldiers to Have Radiation Tests, Diario Says
Lisbon, Dec. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Portugal's Defense Ministry has
ordered medical tests for its 900 soldiers who served or are serving
in Kosovo, after deaths among Belgian and Italian servicemen that
were in the Balkans, Diario de Noticias reported, without specifying
sources.
Five Belgian soldiers died of cancer after returning from the
Balkans, the paper said, citing a medical adviser to Andre Flahaut,
the Belgian Defense Minister. In Italy seven soldiers have died and
Spain has decided to carry out medical tests on the 2000 soldiers
that served in the region, the paper said, without citing sources.
The suspected cause of death for these soldiers is exposure to
radiation from depleted uranium, which was used in the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization's bombing of Yugoslavia, the paper said, without
specifying sources.
In September, an expert at the Institute for Nuclear Sciences in
Belgrade testified in court that use of missiles containing depleted
uranium such as those used by NATO ``provokes serious cancer in
humans.''
Serbia's energy minister resigned this week after a series of power
blackouts in the dominant Yugoslav republic. The state-run power
utility blamed a summer drought that cut hydroelectric production,
and a lack of investment when Yugoslavia faced international
sanctions.
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