Depleted uranium

The participants in the event, which was also attended by a Serbian delegation, said that it was time to hear the truth, and that NATO should never again use depleted uranium - as it had done during the 78-day bombing of Serbia in 1999.

And Wagner's had help from Serbs in gathering his evidence, Sputnik is reporting.

The number of children suffering from malignant diseases of blood and brain has significantly increased and since 1999 (the year of NATO's 78-day aerial war against Serbia) and has been rising each year.

The Serbian commission for examining the alleged effects on public health of NATO’s use of depleted uranium ammunition during the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia will start work in late August or early September, its chairman said.

They will sue NATO countries because of the use of depleted uranium during the 1999 bombing of Serbia.

This was announced on Monday President of the Association of Citizens "Depleted Uranium" Sveto Nogo. The lawsuits will be filed individually, he explained.

Leggero told the daily Vecernje Novosti that NATO had committed "a quiet, vicious murder" by using depleted uranium ammunition (while attacking Serbia in 1999, and Serb areas in Bosnia before that). For that reason, the Italian said, he was willing to help Serbia by handing over the documentation he gathered on the subject.

According to Laccetti, the tumor was a direct consequence of exposure to ionizing radiation that he experienced there.

Depleted uranium ammunition was used by NATO during its bombing of Serbia, from March until June 1999.

The Serbian parliament will establish a commission to examine the alleged effects on public health of NATO’s use of depleted uranium ammunition during the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia.

"We have an obligation toward the citizens to tell them the truth after exhaustive work, because it is an unprecedented crime," the president of the National Assembly told RTS.

Gojkovic said she was convinced that deputies will succeed in doing so.

Montenegro-based website CDM is reporting that the police said they would investigate the circumstances of the incident that happened on February 17, and accordingly "undertake activities to determine the possible responsibility of the police officers."