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あけましておめでとうございます。今年もよろしくお願いします。
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転載を歓迎しますので、よろしくお願いします。
友人からの劣化ウラン関連情報を転送します。
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Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 23:07:32 +0900
Subject: 欧州でDU症候群調査
コソボに「平和維持軍」（？と言うのか）を送ったヨーロッパの各国が、帰国
した兵士が放射性物質による病気になっていないか、相次いで調査に乗り出して
います。イタリア軍兵士は最初に報道されたのですが、スペイン、ポルトガル、
オランダなどが被曝量の調査に。もちろん被曝というのは劣化ウラン弾の残骸や
土壌の汚染によるものを念頭に置いています。
もちろん、まだ被曝したという報告はないのですが、米ペンタゴンの「劣化ウ
ラン弾に害はない」という説明を信じてないことの表れで、容易ならざる事態と
言えます。
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European nations probe illnesses
of troops in Balkans
By Ciaran Giles, Associated Press, 12/27/2000
MADRID - European NATO allies have begun checking
whether their soldiers may have been exposed to
dangerous levels of radiation from depleted uranium
ammunition used by US warplanes in Kosovo last year.
Spain said yesterday that initial tests were proving negative.
The Spanish Defense Ministry confirmed it would examine
all 32,000 soldiers who have served in the Balkan region
since 1992. A ministry spokesman said none of the first
5,000 soldiers screened for exposure in recent months had
tested positive.
Portugal's Defense Ministry said yesterday that it would
send a team of experts to Kosovo to check radiation levels
on spent rounds, but did not foresee screening its 330 troops
there.
Spain has just over 2,000 troops stationed in the Balkans,
half of them in Kosovo.
Fears arose after NATO acknowledged early this year that
US warplanes operating in Kosovo fired armor-piercing
rounds containing depleted uranium during the alliance's
78-day bombing campaign in 1999.
Italian Defense Minister Sergio Mattarella said last week
that Italy was investigating cancer cases among its soldiers
>from Kosovo and Bosnia to see if there is a link with the
ammunition.
A UN team that went to Kosovo in November is doing a
similar study and is expected to report its findings in
February.
Twelve Italian soldiers who served in the Balkans have
developed cancer. In addition, three peacekeepers who
served in Bosnia died of leukemia last year. Four soldiers
involved in aircraft maintenance have also died of cancer.
Pentagon spokesman Jim Turner said yesterday there have
been no problems with leukemia or other illnesses among US
troops who served in the Balkans. He said soldiers receive
regular health checkups.
The Spanish Defense Ministry's medical chief, Colonel Luis
Villalonga, said the health tests were designed to calm any
fears among the troops. He said last week that Spanish
Army studies coincided with others by allied forces that
showed ''there has been no radioactive pollution.''
He said one case of a Spanish soldier dying of leukemia on
returning home was unrelated. He said the soldier had been
based in Macedonia, which was not directly involved in the
war.
The Dutch Defense Ministry said it would keep abreast of
Spanish and Italian inquiries via NATO. A spokesman said
the ministry was looking into a National Soldiers' Union
report about a peacekeeper with leukemia who served in
Bosnia.
Earlier this year, the Yugoslav government reported that the
region hit by uranium rounds in Kosovo stretched across a
southwestern belt of the province. Most affected were areas
surrounding towns such as Prizren, Urosevac, Djakovica,
Decani, and the Djurakovac village, areas where Italian,
Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, and US troops have been
posted.
In its report, Yugoslavia claimed some 50,000 rounds had
been fired, while NATO admitted to 31,000 rounds.
Iraq long has attributed an increase in rates of leukemia and
other cancers, as well as neurological and muscular
diseases, to the use of depleted uranium bombs during the
Persian Gulf War. Official statistics show that the number of
Iraqi children with cancer rose to 130,000 in 1997 from 32 in
1990.
Depleted uranium, which has low levels of radioactivity, is
used in artillery shells because it is extremely dense and
can pierce armor. On impact, the shells create an airborne
dust.
Some specialists argue that uranium rounds are
environmentally harmful.
This story ran on page A12 of the Boston Globe on 12/27/2000.
(C) Copyright 2000 Globe Newspaper Company.
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