Deaths thought related to Sardinia Base
Newspapers report 134 ill and 15 dead
20 June 2002
At the end of April, all the Italian newspapers reported on the deaths, illnesses and children born with genetic damages associated with the test firing range in Sardinia, where local campaigners claim DU has been used (See CADU News 10).
The italian toll is:
- 134 ill - military, 15 deaths, 12 children of military personnel with genetic damages, 11 children with genetic damages from civilian people around the Firing Range in Sardinia
Also on the SAT channel RAINEWS-24 there was a program about the fact that DU weapons were burned in Bosnia 18 times per day for some weeks.
Marco Saba, Istituto Europeo Ricerca e Sviluppo del Sociale, via Santa Sofia 27, Milano, Italy tel 340 5006545
