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●イラクに送られたイタリア軍兵士に、目下、劣化ウランによる死亡者が続出し、
すでに109人が死亡しているとのこと。現地で交通事故で死ぬ兵士よりも、
劣化ウランの犠牲者のほうが数が多いらしい……。
イラク派遣兵士の死因の内訳がわからないので、具体的な評価はできませんが、
無視できぬ結果になっていることだけは明らかなようですね。
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http://www.rense.com/general58/frff.htm
109 Italian Soldiers Dead So Far From DU In Iraq
【すでにイタリアの兵員１０９人が
イラクでの劣化ウランが原因で死亡】
10-20-4
ROME, Italy (AGI) - According to the Italian Military Health Observatory a total of 109 Italian soldiers have died thus far due to exposure to depleted uranium.
【ローマ（イタリア）発：AGI──イタリアの軍人健康監視団体によれば、これまですでに109人のイタリア人兵士が、劣化ウランに晒されたせいで死亡しているという。】
The observatory stressed the fact that 41 pct of active personnel casualties relate to disease. According to Domenico Leggiero at the Military Health Observatory, "The total of 109 casualties exceeds the total number of persons dying as a consequence of road accidents. Anyone denying the significance of such data is purely acting out of ill faith, and the truth is that our soldiers are dying out there due to a lack of adequate protection against depleted uranium".
【同団体は、現役兵士の犠牲者の41％が病死していることを重大視している。軍人保健監視団のドメニコ・レッジェロ氏によれば、「これによる犠牲者総数は109人に達しており、交通事故による死亡者数を越えている。このようなデータの重要性を否定するのは、まったく欺瞞的な態度というほかない。わが軍の兵士たちが劣化ウランへの充分な防備も与えられずに現地でどんどん死んでいるのが、現実なのだ」。】
Leggiero pointed out the fact that the Senate has to date failed to establish a probe committee on this matter: "it is proof of a worrying lack of oversight on matters which are frankly dramatic".
【レッジェロ氏は、上院議会がこの問題についての調査委員会をこれまで設置してこなかったことを指弾している。「これこそ、いまや劇的な結果を招いてしまったこの問題について、監督が不行き届きだったという憂うべき事実をしめす証拠である。」】
Members of the Observatory have petitioned a urgent hearing "in order to study effective prevention and safeguard measures aimed at reducing the death-toll amongst our serving soldiers".
【軍人保健監視団のメンバーは、これまで緊急公聴会を開くよう要請してきた。「現地に送り出されたわが国の兵士たちの死亡者数を減らすために、実効性のある予防と防護の方策を調べる」ことを、政府に求め続けてきたわけだ。】
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http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200410191947-1213-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia
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http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200410191947-1213-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia
DEPLETED URANIUM: OBSERVATORY LAMENTS DENIAL
(AGI) - Rome, Italy, Oct. 19 - According to the Italian Military Health Observatory a total of 109 Italian soldiers have died thus far due to exposure to depleted uranium. The observatory stressed the fact that 41 pct of active personnel casualties relate to disease. According to Domenico Leggiero at the Military Health Observatory, "The total of 109 casualties exceeds the total number of persons dying as a consequence of road accidents. Anyone denying the significance of such data is purely acting out of ill faith, and the truth is that our soldiers are dying out there due to a lack of adequate protection against depleted uranium". Leggiero pointed out the fact that the Senate has to date failed to establish a probe committee on this matter: "it is proof of a worrying lack of oversight on matters which are frankly dramatic". Members of the Observatory have petitioned a urgent hearing "in order to study effective prevention and safeguard measures aimed at reducing the death-toll amongst our serving soldiers". (AGI) -
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●イタリアの「Military Health Observatory」（軍人保健監視団）という団体は、
90年代の南ヨーロッパの戦争の際にNATO軍が実施した劣化ウラン弾攻撃の
惨害についても、兵士と一般市民の健康をまもる立場から、活動をしてきた団体
のようです。以下はその活動を伝える４年近く前の記事――
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http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/01/06/nato.troops/
Conflicting research on radiation in Kosovo
January 6, 2001
Web posted at: 2:40 PM EST (1940 GMT)
UNITED NATIONS -- Evidence of radioactivity at eight Kosovo sites bombed with NATO depleted nuclear ammunition has been found by a United Nations' team.
The results from 11 tests released on Friday in a preliminary report for the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) add weight to concerns that the NATO weapons could have caused illness among peacekeeping troops.
NATO has come under pressure from several European governments over so-called "Balkans Syndrome" after six Italian soldiers who served in Kosovo and Bosnia died of leukaemia.
A separate survey carried out by an Italian military watchdog, the National Observatory for the Protection of Military Personnel, revealed on Saturday that its research had found a link between the use of depleted uranium and the death of its six soldiers.
Sergeant Domenico Leggiero, head of the military interest group, was quoted as saying by AGI news agency that the deaths could be "officially linked to the Balkan situation."
Two other deaths were being investigated, he added.
NATO said Italian requests for information on the situation would be examined by the North Atlantic Council next Tuesday.
But a U.N. spokeswoman said on Saturday that World Health Organisation (WHO) officials had said they had found no increase in leukaemia cases in Kosovo after talking to doctors about possible "Balkans Syndrome."
The findings were not part of a scientific survey, relying on officials asking doctors to provide information about leukaemia cases from 1997 to 2000.
U.N. spokeswoman Susan Manuel said: "After consultations with nuclear and health experts, international health professionals in Kosovo determined the potential public health hazards related to depleted uranium exposure were not high."
The U.S. Defense Department said it had no plans to suspend use of the tank-piercing shells but would co-operate with any NATO study into mystery illnesses.
The discovery of radioactivity at the sites tested by the U.N. was the first results of testing still underway at laboratories in Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Britain and Austria by UNEP.
"The final results will only be known when the UNEP report is published in 2001, but there is enough preliminary evidence to call for precautions when dealing with used depleted uranium or with sites where such ammunition might be present," spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
A U.N. report in May had warned that much of Kosovo's water could be so contaminated as to be unfit to drink, and that a clean-up of the province could cost billions of dollars.
It warned U.N. staff not to approach any target that might have been hit by a depleted uranium weapon.
The 11 sites tested by the UNEP team were among 112 in Kosovo hit by weapons containing depleted uranium according to a NATO map.
The UNEP report also recommended that health checks be carried out on residents of the immediate area.
Chorus of concern
Russia added its voice to a growing chorus of European concern over the weapons, which includes France, Italy, Norway, Germany, Portugal and Greece, saying it was in favour of international investigations into the issue.
Moscow has sent 3,000 peacekeepers to Kosovo but fiercely opposed NATO's 1999 bombing campaign to drive Serb forces out of Kosovo.
Russian peacekeepers are also deployed in Bosnia, where U.S. warplanes used depleted uranium weapons against Serbian armour in the mid-1990s.
France confirmed on Thursday that four of its soldiers had contracted leukaemia after working in the Balkans.
In Athens, about 500 protesters marched to demand the return of Greek troops from Bosnia and Kosovo due to the health concerns.
Britain said it had no evidence NATO's use of the munitions adversely affected British peacekeepers in the Balkans and had no plans to screen soldiers who served in Kosovo and Bosnia.
Turkey and Yugoslavia found no cases of radiation exposure among their troops, and the International Committee of the Red Cross disclosed that tests on over 30 staff deployed during the 1999 Kosovo war showed no traces of depleted uranium.
U.S. attack jets fired some 31,000 rounds of depleted uranium ammunition against Serbian targets during NATO's 1999 campaign to drive the Yugoslav army out of Kosovo.
Some 10,000 rounds were also fired in neighbouring Bosnia in 1994-5.
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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