Internal radiation sources create a slow but cumulative radiation exposure risk for body cells - even for those who are only in contamination area for a short period of time. Chronic exposure for civilians living in contaminated areas creates even greater cumulative radiation exposure effects. Hence the medium and long term effects of uranium and other radiological weapons on health lead to increasing numbers of casualties and increasing severity of illnesses including cancers, lymphomas and birth defects. These post-combat and inter-generational effects directly contravene international law and conventions as weapons of indiscriminative effect.
Pollution knows no boundaries.
Pollution cannot be confined to a target country. During the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia, the rise in background radiation was noted as far away as Hungary and Northern Greece. The depleted uranium dust of the 1991 Gulf War was blown by the prevailing winds into Kuwait From the Afghan war, it will have gone to Western China. The oil fires of the Gulf War, which U.S. veterans are now alleging were started by the Americans, effected much of the globe. The bombing of Iraq should be of environmental and health concern to all neighbouring countries and should be taken seriously by their governments. Medical experts and governments were alerted to this risk by Dr Asaf Durakovic at the 3rd Gulf Countries Conference on Military Medicine in Qatar on 20 October 2002. Health effects from the last Gulf War are known to have been greatly suppressed by the ruling elites of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
Pollution knows no boundaries.
Pollution cannot be confined to a target country. During the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia, the rise in background radiation was noted as far away as Hungary and Northern Greece. The depleted uranium dust of the 1991 Gulf War was blown by the prevailing winds into Kuwait From the Afghan war, it will have gone to Western China. The oil fires of the Gulf War, which U.S. veterans are now alleging were started by the Americans, effected much of the globe. The bombing of Iraq should be of environmental and health concern to all neighbouring countries and should be taken seriously by their governments. Medical experts and governments were alerted to this risk by Dr Asaf Durakovic at the 3rd Gulf Countries Conference on Military Medicine in Qatar on 20 October 2002. Health effects from the last Gulf War are known to have been greatly suppressed by the ruling elites of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.