"Up to 15 tons of depleted uranium used in 1999 Serbia bombing"

Depleted Uranium Engagement Points 6 Apr 99 - 10 Jun 99 - Map produced 18 Jan 01 - Photo: NATO.int

A group of doctors and lawyers intending to sue NATO for the 199 bombing of Serbia "has no chance of winning." This is what Belgrade-based Danas is reporting, citing its interlocutors.

Such a chance does not exist without the fundamental research that the group refers to, said the article.

The special team, as they calls themselves, intends to prove a link between the increase in most serous diseases, especially cancer, and NATO's use of depleted uranium during the bombing.

Slavica Djukic Dejanovic, minister without portfolio in charge of demographics and population policy, told the daily that the impact of depleted uranium on health is an answer yet to be provided by experts who deal with radiation, not by ad hoc groups.

"It requires a very extensive research...

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