Belgian soldiers to sue over DU

Chris Burford cburford at gn.apc.org
Tue Jan 9 15:26:00 PST 2001


At 02:51 08/01/01 +0000, you wrote:


>>Can soldiers sue their governments?
>
>I can't speak about foreign governments, but US soldiers cannot sue the US
>govt for injuries incurred in the regular course of their duties, such as
>cancer from DU shells. I actually had a case in the neighborhood of thsi,
>where that principle came up. A soldier can sue (this was the case I had)
>for having a superior officer taping her in the womnen's bathroom. That's
>not an injury incurred in the regular course of military duty.
>
>--jks

From an AP report earlier on Tuesday:

A group of Belgian soldiers announced plans to sue

their government because of health problems

allegedly caused by service in the Balkans.

Interesting.

What has happened to the spirit of imperialism?

Chris Burford

London



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