ecological consquences of bombing

Carl Remick cremick at rlmnet.com
Thu Apr 22 09:33:01 PDT 1999



> It will
> take Mother Earth a long time to heal herself in the Balkans,
> in some cases
> thousands of years after the NATO bombs stop falling,
> according to reports
> filtering out of the war-torn area.


>From George Monbiot's column in today's UK Guardian:

"This, in environmental terms at least, is perhaps the dirtiest war the West has ever fought. Nato's scorched earth policy, which seeks to destroy Milosevic's armed capacity by destroying everything else, places the Alliance firmly on the wrong side of the Geneva Convention. For a war which targets chemical factories and oil installations, which deploys radioactive weapons in towns and cities, is a war against everyone: civilians as well as combatants, the unborn as well as the living. As such, it can never be a just one."

Carl Remick



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