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Chemical/Nuclear Warfare in Bosnia: Eyewitness To
Hell
Comments by Jared Israel
(1-9-2001)
Report from Tika
Jankovich
While the Pentagon stonewalls, insisting simultaneously that depleted
uranium (DU) isn't what's killing NATO troops in Kosovo and
that they warned European leaders it was deadly, the European
officials (led by the Italians) are jumping ship. DU is deadly, they
say, but the Pentagon failed to warn us; hence we never warned the
troops. We just didn't know.
As Mr. Fiske commented in the "independent': This is worse than a
scandal. It is an outrage.
Dr. Doug Rokke knew. He's the scientist the Pentagon put in charge of
their field program for treating the affects of hazardous substances
released during the Gulf War. Rokke insists he warned the Pentagon about
DU back in 1991 after a harrowing effort to combat "Gulf War Syndrome"
among Western troops and Iraqi civilians. He says the Pentagon
stonewalled him then and they've been stonewalling him ever since. But
even while the Pentagon seems to be saying DU is safe:
"In the (new) U.S. Army Manual of Common Tasks, the Department of
Defense authors state that: "NOTE: Contamination [by depleted uranium]
will make food and water unsafe for consumption." (Dr. Doug Rokke, http://emperors-clothes.com/news/v2.htm
)
The latest line from the Pentagon is: "Depleted Uranium is only
dangerous of ingested." ('Agence France Presse', January 7, 2001)
Let us consider the logic of this statement.
1) Depleted Uranium is used in shell casings.
2) When the shells explode the DU turns into a super fine dust.
3) This dust is virtually indestructible. Like any dust, it travels
wherever wind or people or animals take it.
4) There is no known minimum danger level for ingesting DU dust. One
particle is one too much.
Given the above, can anyone explain what it is about the assertion
that "Depleted Uranium is only dangerous if ingested'' that the Pentagon
finds reassuring?
Eye witness to hell
Tika Jankovic is a Yugoslav engineer now living in California. From
1996 to 1998 he conducted on-site investigations of the health effects
of NATO's bombing and occupation of the Bosnian Serb Republic or
Republika Srpska (pronounced Serpska).
I spoke to Mr. Jankovic this morning. He said:
"There's one good thing about the public uproar over the terrible
sicknesses NATO troops are suffering after exposure to depleted
uranium in Kosovo. For the first time, Western citizens are getting a
glimpse of the horror wrought by last year's NATO bombing. But that
horror did not begin for Yugoslavia in 1999. It began on August 31,
1995. From then until Sept 13, 1995, NATO conducted massive bombing
raids against the Bosnian Serb Republic, or Republika Srpska. The
official justification was to bring peace, that is, to force Serbian
leaders to allow the total occupation of Republika Srpska by NATO.
Whom did NATO bomb? They bombed people, ordinary people and their
homes and work places and farms as well as schools and hospitals and
markets in cities and the countryside. Peace through terror. The NATO
attackers employed nuclear and chemical weapons in their arsenal. As
the document I have sent you shows [this document is reprinted below]
various chemical and biological substances continued to be sprayed on
civilians by NATO troops after they occupied the area.
"The human consequences were horrendous. I know; I
witnessed these horrors first hand during my investigative trips. I
interviewed some of the victims, the 'collateral damage.' It is
obvious that these attacks, and the use of hellish weapons, was
intentional. How could it not be intentional? What I saw cannot be
forgotten. It is burned into my mind."
Not so with the Western public. Up until now the mind of the Western
public has been spared intimate knowledge of what NATO did to the
Bosnian Serbs. The mass media withheld this information.
But if ordinary citizens were never told what happened when (as the
TV newspeople liked to say) "Today NATO bombed Bosnian Serb positions.
Meanwhile, in other late breaking news..." - if ordinary people do not
know what actually happened, this is not true of the leaders.
Here's Mr. Jankovic again:
"In May 1998 I visited Mrkonjic Grad [pronounced: Merkoneech grad]
in Republika Srpska. A regiment of English SFOR troops was based in
the area. Earlier, in October, 1995, the British had bombarded
Mrkonjic Grad for 24 hours, dropping 10,000 shells on a city of 25,000
people, mainly Serbs…I spoke to several residents who worked at the
British NATO base. They told me that the British commander had issued
warnings to the troops not to drink the water or touch the soil or
purchase food produced by local farmers for fear of DU and other
contamination from their bombing and spraying."
Many
scientific sources told the NATO governments about Depleted Uranium.
(1) In 1997 Mr. Jankovic sent letters to Pentagon officials, the White
House, over 40 UN Missions and important news outlets reporting what he
had witnessed in Republika Srpska. Only one person responded. That was
Mr. Harold Heilsnis, Director For Public Relations for Defense Secretary
Cohen, 1400 Defense, Pentagon ,Washington, DC, 20301-1400.
Mr. Heilsnis called Mr. Jankovic's report "incriminating, false and
inflammatory". Unfortunately for the population of the Bosnian Serb
Republic, Mr. Heilsnis was wrong. Moreover, as Mr. Jankovic pointed out
in his reply to Heilsnis, posted below, it is not just Depleted Uranium
that NATO has used against the people of the Bosnian Serb Republic.
Here is Mr. Jankovic's report: I urge readers to distribute it as
widely as possible. - JI
Consequences of the Use of Chemical, Nuclear and
Biological Agents by NATO forces against Residents of Republika Srpska,
1995-1997
August 12, 1997
Dear Mr. Heilsnis:
I truly appreciate the time you spent reading my letter of July 8,
1997, sent also to Senator Trent Lott and Secretary William Cohen. I
thank you for taking the trouble of writing me a response, with comments
that my allegations were "incriminating, false and inflammatory".
Regretfully, I cannot retract the allegations in my letter to Senator
Lott regarding the US/NATO's hideous, criminal activities, applying
biological, chemical and nuclear weapons against the population in the
Bosnian Serb Republic during the bombing in September 1995, followed by
the occupation starting two months later and lasting to these days.
These 'inflammatory' allegations are based on my own field
investigations the past two years, on the testimonies of victims, their
families, eye witnesses, on medical records from hospitals that treated
patients affected with airborne agents and/or nuclear contaminants, as
well as other official reports and sources. These obnoxious chemicals
have been and are being sprayed on Serbian territory and on the people
from NATO helicopters and low flying airplanes. Serbian farmers have
observed NATO military trucks spraying the fields and NATO soldiers
using carry-on-the-back spraying devices, dispensing unknown chemicals,
too. What follows is a small part of this still-unreported story.
1. The "herpes zoster intercostallis" disease has devastated the
Serbian population in the Doboj-Mountain Ozren area since the arrival of
NATO. Children have been most severely affected. Massive outbreaks of
the disease followed NATO air "reconnaissance" flights over this
territory February 4 to 13, 1997. Source: The Department of Contagious
Diseases at Doboj Hospital, Republika Srpska. Testimony of D.B.
D.B. was a 12 year old boy, hospitalized with a massive attack of
herpes. As with other witnesses, D.B's full name has been withheld to
protect him from NATO reprisal.
Other sources: testimony of members of the medical staff who treated
victims of the epidemic as well as records at the same hospital. On a
trip to the Ozren Mountain region a year later (in 1998) I visited a
girl suffering terrible pain from this disease. Her mother had 15 severe
herpes sores on the palms of her hands from touching crops sprayed by
NATO occupation forces. She could not even bear to wash her hands let
alone work in the fields, the pain was so bad. In their village, Petrovo
Selo, I heard there were similar cases.
2. The wide-spread outbreak of other severe diseases such as
leukemia, diabetes, high blood pressure, anemia, fatigue,
psycho-neurosis, tuberculosis (a disease long ago wiped out in
Yugoslavia) and other strange ailments and anomalous symptoms bewildered
the most experienced medical staff in Republika Srpska. The problem of
treatment was worsened by the US-instigated blockade which has kept all
medical supplies out of the Bosnian Serb Republic, as well as out of
Serbia proper, which therefore could not aid its neighbor.
Consider the timing, my friends. These diseases have plagued the
Serbian population only since the US/NATO bombing began, August
31, 1995. The problems escalated with the arrival of NATO troops. A word
on this. It is true that some NATO troops first arrived in Yugoslavia at
this time . For example, in fall of 1995 the US First Armored Division
roared in from Germany under the command of Gen. William Nash, presently
the Governor of the Kosovska Mitrovica [pronounced Mitrovitsa] district
in Northern Kosovo.
But many of what became known as NATO troops were already present.
Until the fall of 1995 they were called 'UN' troops. After the so-called
peace treaty was signed in Paris in November, 1995, these troops changed
their insignia from the UN to SFOR or Stabilization Force, that is, to
NATO in Bosnia. In so doing, they changed command structure; they came
under direct US control. And it was under U.S. control that the program
of spraying poisons and, apparently, experimenting with new chemical and
biological weapons on the local population, was carried out.
Sources: Testimony of Serbian victims from the towns of Doboj
[pronounced Doughboy], Modrica [pronounced Modricha], Vukosavlje
(Vukosavyeh), Derventa, Petrovo Selo and other towns and villages;
medical records from hospitals in Doboj, Banja Luka [Banya Luka], Samac
[Shamats], Brcka [Birchko] during 1996 and 1997.
3. The US, French and British air forces, that dropped over 8,000
tons of high explosive devices on the Serbian military (sometimes) and
civilian (mostly) targets, used API PGU-014/B missiles and shells,
fitted with depleted uranium (DU) , U-235 and U-238 core projectiles.
The truck repair facilities at Hadzici [Hadjichi] a Serbian suburb of
Sarajevo were showered with Depleted Uranium shells until the buildings
were reduced to ruins. Hundreds of 30 mm shells, with DU cores 96 mm
long, 16 mm in diameter, weighing 292.18 grams, were fired at this
location from US Navy A-10 war planes equipped with 7-barrel "Gattling"
guns. The same fate struck other Serb towns around Sarajevo, like Blazuj
[Bladjooie] and Vogosce [Vogoshcha]. Samples of this ammunition,
analyzed by the Nuclear Institute
of Vincha near Belgrade (1), indicated its radioactivity was 1,000
times above the internationally accepted safe limit for humans. Sources:
The official report by Vincha Institute as well as video documentaries
by Serbian military reporters and the testimony of the victims of
Depleted Uranium, as well as medical records at the hospitals in Doboj,
Banja Luka, etc.
4. In 1997, symptoms similar to those described by veterans of the
Gulf War - the so-called "Gulf War Syndrom" - were reportedly suffered
by at least 20 Dutch troops previously on 'peacekeeping' missions in
Bosnia at the town of Lukavica [pronounced Lukavitsa] near the city of
Tuzla. These 20 soldiers appeared on Dutch TV to describe their unusual
ailments and to testify that only US and British war planes fired
radioactive ammunition on the Serbs. The 2,000 lb. cluster bombs dropped
by NATO warplanes were also laced with DU; these left heavily
DU-contaminated craters all over Republika Srpska. Sources: Official
report by the Dutch Department of Defense, the testimony by 20 Dutch
veterans from Bosnia on Dutch TV, and the public confirmation of the
above by the Speaker for the Dutch Military Syndicate (a sort of union
of Dutch soldiers). Also, 'Proceedings of the Yugoslav Nuclear Society
International Conference', Belgrade, October 6-9, 1996.
5. ECO-disaster brought on by US/NATO germ-chemical-nuclear warfare
against the Serbs is on par with similar vindictive campaigns the US
carried out in Vietnam, Cuba, Cambodia, Laos, Iraq, Panama, Libya and
elsewhere. These nations resisted the gaping jaws of the International
Monetary Fund, World Bank and other Western predators and the planned
exploitation of their labor and natural resources.
DU radiation and an apparent use of defoliants by US/NATO troops
against Serbian land and population, have caused many birth defects
among babies born after the US/NATO bombing and occupation; the
magnitude of this problem has stunned Serbian medical experts and
panicked the population. In addition, the eco-system has been turned
upside down. Domestic animals and pets have suffered many deformities.
Cats and dogs are born missing some body parts, or may have extra parts.
I have seen a photo of a one-eyed cat, but litters without tails or ears
have also been reported. Villagers in the Ozren Mountain-Doboj area, and
in the Spreca, Bosna and Usora River valleys, which have been heavily
and repeatedly sprayed by low flying NATO helicopters, report grotesque
birth defects among calves and lambs. Villagers also told me of
headaches, great difficulty breathing, choking, vomiting, fatigue,
drowsiness, frequent urination, diarrhea, itching eyes, etc., after such
uninvited showers from the skies.
The plants have also . Farmers report that the growth cycle has
actually changed. Blossoms fall off fruit trees too early and the trees
do not bear fruits. Forests in the Ozren Mountain were defoliated
following NATO's nighttime 'reconnaissance' visits. People would be
awakened by the sound of helicopters overhead, and soon after the leaves
withered and fell off the trees. Villagers observed sparrows, crows and
other birds, indigenous to the region, flying away. Some birds behaved
very strangely, shooting up in the air, then swooping back down to hit
the earth and die. Apparently the air had become poisonous to them.
Source: The testimonies of the Serb villagers.
6. NATO helicopters even harass Serbian farmers burying their dead.
On March 17, 1997, between 12:00 PM and 3:00 PM, at the Serb village of
Lipac [Lipatz] near Tuzla, a NATO helicopter hovered over the cemetery
spraying an unknown mist on a Serb burial procession. The pilot
positioned the craft upstream the wind blew the mist onto the people
beneath. The resulting choking and eye irritation forced the mourners to
hastily bury the dead and flee the cemetery, running for shelter. After
discharging this mist, the helicopter flew back to the Tuzla airport for
a refill. A local newspaper quoted two male villagers, Dj. K. and B.P.,
who concluded after this experience with NATO harassment that the next
burial would have to be performed at night, secretly, without the
customary early death notice to the public. Similar stories of
harassment of Serbs under NATO control may be heard everywhere. The
witnesses recall similar raids being carried out on the Serbs at open
markets, on soccer fields, at wedding parties and other outdoor events.
Source: The eye witnesses testimony.
Everything I have seen and read suggests that the residents of
Republika Srpska have been the subject of extreme harassment and
experiments by US/NATO peace-keepers, who are testing germ, chemical and
nuclear weapons for use in future humanitarian wars.
Sincerely yours,
Tika Jankovic
On subsequent trips to Republika Srpska, in December, 1997 and May
and December, 1998, I collected further information. This reinforced
earlier accounts of the US/NATO atrocities systematically committed
against the Serbian population under this new colonial rule. >From my
observation the situation has gotten worse with time.
- TJ
Notes
(1) In 1997 the Yugoslav Nuclear Society & VINCA, the Institute
of Nuclear Sciences in Belgrade published a report on the use of
depleted uranium against the Serbian people in Bosnia. It can be read at
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/news/vincha.htm
2) After reading the above, Emperor's Clothes contributor Petar
Makara made the following points: The bombing of Yugoslavia, last year,
and for that matter, the bombing of the Bosnian Serb Republic, in 1995,
were flagrant violations of international law. The US and its NATO
allies set themselves up as the International Community and gave
themselves the right to force sovereign states to agree to NATO
occupation. This is the most extreme sort of gunboat diplomacy. It
fulfils the definition, established at Nuremberg, of the greatest
international crime: launching aggressive war against a sovereign
nation. Having so gravely injured the world's peace, NATO went on to
insult its intelligence by claiming these bombings were humanitarian. If
there ever was any doubt, certainly now the evidence is overwhelming:
NATO deliberately used chemical agents, depleted uranium, cluster bombs
and targeted
toxic chemical facilities (4) , all the while knowing perfectly well
that this would cause the gravest environmental disasters for years to
come - in the case of depleted uranium, for millions of years to come.
They contaminated not only areas inhabited mainly by Serbs, but also
areas they had slated for ethnic cleansing - areas to be occupied by the
people for whose protection they claimed to be waging humanitarian war:
ethnic Albanians.
3) In our discussion this morning, Tika Jankovic provided more
background on Mrkonjic Grad [pronounced: Merkoneech grad] the city where
the British command warned its soldiers not to eat the food, touch the
ground or drink the water:
"The British base in Mrkonjic Grad is located next to the city
cemetery. After the massive British NATO bombardment, Croatian Fascist
forces moved in and seized the city. Most residents fled or
successfully hid from the Fascists, but some residents were found. The
Fascists proceeded to torture and kill these people; 182 Serbian
civilians were slaughtered. I paid my respects at the two long ditches
where these poor souls lie buried. My guide showed me a piece of a
welding torches which the Croatian Fascist forces used to torture
these victims. Their cries, begging for someone to help them, could be
heard by other residents, still hiding in the city.
"When the so-called peace agreement, that is, the forced peace
agreement, was signed in November, 1995, the Croatian killers were
supposed to leave the city because it was assigned to the Serbs. But
the Croats did not leave until February, 1996. This gave them time to
dynamite all those houses left standing by the British bombardment [of
10,000 shells], as well as to hunt down and slaughter any Serbs still
in the city. Then, their work complete, the Croats departed. Serbs
were allowed to return to this ghastly ruin. The British moved in and
constructed a military base. (More on that construction project in a
moment).
"This train of events clearly demonstrates the division of labor in
the New World Order's humanitarian wars, a division we see again and
again, in Bosnia, in Kosovo, in the so-called border towns between
inner Serbia and Kosovo, and so on. The U.S., British, French and
German Gods provide air bombardment - this is clean murder, clean
torture. Acceptable because performed from a distance; the hands do
not get dirty. Then proxy forces (whether Croatian Fascists, Islamist
terrorists or Albanian secessionists) move in and perform the dirty
work - terrorizing the local population into submission. Finally the
still-pure Gods set up their military bases "to preserve
order".
"Here is how the British constructed their base in Mrkonjic Grad.
Previously there had been two large employers: a shoe factory and a
giant truck repair facility. Both were seized by the British who
bulldozed the equipment from these factories into the river. When I
visited the city I could see the immense pile of equipment, rusting
like a grotesque island. The workers protested this British outrage
and picketed the plants but they were brutally dispersed by the
British soldiers. This pattern, of SFOR taking over and destroying
production facilities, has occurred throughout Republika Srpska. It is
part of the new colonialism, to break the spirit of the people,
destroy Yugoslavia (and other countries) as functioning industrial
entities and prepare the highly skilled population to work for a
pittance in any job Western companies might offer."
4) Prof. Chossudovsky has assembled an ironclad indictment of NATO
for deliberately releasing a tidal wave of toxic chemicals when it
bombed facilities in Pancevo, Yugoslavia during last years illegal war.
See 'NATO
Willfully Triggered Environmental Catastrophe In Pancevo,
Yugoslavia' at http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/willful.htm
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