----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 7:23 AM Subject: [STOPNATO] British soldiers sue over stress in battle STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.HOME-PAGE.ORG ========================================== BRITISH SOLDIERS SUE OVER STRESS IN BATTLE ========================================== LONDON, UK, April 21, 2000 (Reuters) Britain's Ministry of Defense is being sued by 280 war veterans who say they suffered Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in conflicts from Bosnia to the Gulf, their lawyer said on Friday. The soldiers claim they were poorly trained and exposed to unnecessary danger. Afterwards their conditions were not recognized or treated, they said. If successful, the action could cost the ministry hundreds of millions of pounds. "The basis of the action is that the Ministry of Defense and services should have taken better steps to diagnose and treat the condition once they had acquired it," their lawyer, John Mackenzie, told BBC Radio on Friday. Among those taking action are 40 Welsh Guardsmen who were trapped aboard the burning ship Sir Galahad when it was attacked by Argentine planes during the 1982 Falklands conflict. The survivors say many of them have not worked since. Some say they have not slept through a whole night since the attack, which killed 50 of their comrades. The claimants said that evidence collected by Israel during the 1967 Six Day War and U.S. experience in Vietnam proved decades ago that servicemen can suffer from the disorder. A spokesman for the ministry said it had behaved "in line with contemporary best practice in our treatment of service personnel with PTSD." ======== THE NEWS ======== Evening news edited by Nikola Stan AIM, Belgrade, April 21, 2000 20:30 =================================================== For more information visit our Academic Information Network site at http://www.aim.ac.yu/ Please send us Your comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please send us information You consider valuable to [EMAIL PROTECTED] =================================================== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Advertisement: Workstation with Monitor under $800! So, you just heard that you need to add how many new workstations by the end of next week? Check out the bundle below. It includes everything you need to get everyone up and running quickly. http://www.listbot.com/links/cdw5
