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元兵士、湾岸症候群裁判で画期的勝訴（インディペンデント）
湾岸症候群に苦しむ元州兵が、国防省を相手取る画期的な裁判に勝訴した。
91年の戦争以来、慢性疲労、記憶喪失、集中力欠損に苦しむダニエル・
マーチン氏（35歳）は、湾岸症候群の’包括用語’のもとに障害者認定を
受けることになる。
彼は、国防省が過去14年間存在を認めなかった症候群による障害者年金
受給主張している兵士1,500人のひとり。
昨日ロンドンで開廷された戦争年金法廷は、”湾岸症候群はマーチン氏の
症状に添付されるべき適切な用語”であるとし、この裁定は障害者年金を
主張している他の軍人にも適用される。
湾岸ヴェテランおよび家族の会コーディネーター役のチャールズ・
プラムリッジ氏は、「湾岸症候群の診断を受けた数百人のヴェテランが
公に認められた。国防省が英国下院で症候群は認められないと発言した
一方で、Pensions Appeal Tribunal は用語の正当性に十分な証拠がある
とした」と述べた。
50歳で第一次湾岸戦争に召集された在郷軍人プラムリッジ氏は、5年の間
国防相から障害者年金受給者認定が下りるのを待っていた。 「判例が
確定した今、少なくとも退役軍人部が周知の事実を受け入れ、湾岸症候群
に因る権利を主張する1,500人が受給者認定を受けられることを期待でき
そうです」。
ヴェテランたちは、戦闘前に受けた炭疽菌ワクチンを含む多くのワクチンと、
劣化ウラン、湾岸で連合国作戦に従事していた期間にテントで使用された
農薬に晒された複合要因による症候群と主張している。
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article323846.ece
Former soldier wins landmark case over Gulf War Syndrome
By Geneviève Roberts
Published: 01 November 2005
A former guardsman suffering from Gulf War Syndrome has won a landmark legal case against the Ministry of Defence.
Daniel Martin, 35, who has suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome, memory loss and impaired concentration since the 1991 conflict, will receive a disability award under the "umbrella term" of Gulf War Syndrome.
He is one of 1,500 soldiers who made a claim for a disablement pension because of the syndrome, which, for the past 14 years, the MoD has said does not exist.
A war pensions tribunal in London yesterday ruled "the term Gulf War Syndrome is the appropriate medical label to be attached" to Mr Martin's condition. The ruling will enable the other servicemen to claim their disablement pensions.
Charles Plumridge, Co-ordinator for the National Gulf Veterans and Families Association, said: "Hundreds of veterans have applied to have the diagnostic label of Gulf War Syndrome recognised. While the Ministry of Defence has said in the House of Commons that they do not recognise the syndrome, the Pensions Appeal Tribunal has ruled that there is enough evidence to warrant the term."
Mr Plumridge, an army reservist called up at the age of 50 to serve in the first Gulf War, has been waiting five years to be granted a disablement pension from the MoD. "A precedent has now been set," he said. "I would expect, at last, the Veterans Agency to accept what everyone else already knows, and grant pensions to the 1,500 veterans who have claimed them due to Gulf War Syndrome."
The veterans claim the syndrome was caused by the many vaccinations they received before combat, including the Anthrax vaccine, combined with exposure to depleted uranium and the pesticides used on the servicemen's tents while serving in the Gulf during the Allied action.
A former guardsman suffering from Gulf War Syndrome has won a landmark legal case against the Ministry of Defence.
Daniel Martin, 35, who has suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome, memory loss and impaired concentration since the 1991 conflict, will receive a disability award under the "umbrella term" of Gulf War Syndrome.
He is one of 1,500 soldiers who made a claim for a disablement pension because of the syndrome, which, for the past 14 years, the MoD has said does not exist.
A war pensions tribunal in London yesterday ruled "the term Gulf War Syndrome is the appropriate medical label to be attached" to Mr Martin's condition. The ruling will enable the other servicemen to claim their disablement pensions.
Charles Plumridge, Co-ordinator for the National Gulf Veterans and Families Association, said: "Hundreds of veterans have applied to have the diagnostic label of Gulf War Syndrome recognised. While the Ministry of Defence has said in the House of Commons that they do not recognise the syndrome, the Pensions Appeal Tribunal has ruled that there is enough evidence to warrant the term."
Mr Plumridge, an army reservist called up at the age of 50 to serve in the first Gulf War, has been waiting five years to be granted a disablement pension from the MoD. "A precedent has now been set," he said. "I would expect, at last, the Veterans Agency to accept what everyone else already knows, and grant pensions to the 1,500 veterans who have claimed them due to Gulf War Syndrome."
The veterans claim the syndrome was caused by the many vaccinations they received before combat, including the Anthrax vaccine, combined with exposure to depleted uranium and the pesticides used on the servicemen's tents while serving in the Gulf during the Allied action.
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