Cancer alert in Serbia, chief cause of impoverished NATO bombs

During a visit Serbia's president received last week at the Oncology Institute in Serbia, he has said that more and more children in Serbia are being diagnosed with cancer, which is all the cause of impoverished uranium.

He said NATO had used ammunition with impoverished uranium in the bombings that occurred in 1999. Vuciq even said Serbia would seek account for this, since he called it a “an unprecedented crime”.

But immediate was the response of US Ambassador to Serbia Kyle Scott.

The US ambassador made it clear to Vuciqi that the impoverished uranium does not cause health risks in Serbia, nor anywhere else in the world where poverty-deserved uranium has been used.

Operation NATO came after the policies of ethnic cleansing of Albanians in Kosovo by the Serbian regime. Meanwhile, signs of malignant diseases from the impoverished uranium had also appeared to soldiers who were part of the peacekeeping mission shortly after the bombing.

Scott said ammunition with impoverished uranium has been used exclusively in Kosovo and less in the Presevo region of Bujanoc, but there is no danger of either in Serbia or anywhere else. Thus, at least the World Health Organization and the United Nations Environment Protection Programme have stated.

He has added that some Serbian scientists, epidemiologists and radiologs have done independent research and they have found no evidence that the impoverished uranium has caused health problems in Serbia.

In Belgrade, the creation of a Commission that would investigate health injuries from the use of ammunition with impoverished uranium has been initiated.