- ROME, Italy -
According to the Italian Military Health Observatory a total of 109
Italian soldiers have died thus far due to exposure to depleted
uranium.
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- The observatory stressed the fact that 41 pct of
active personnel casualties relate to disease. According to Domenico
Leggiero at the Military Health Observatory, "The total of 109
casualties exceeds the total number of persons dying as a consequence
of road accidents. Anyone denying the significance of such data is
purely acting out of ill faith, and the truth is that our soldiers are
dying out there due to a lack of adequate protection against depleted
uranium".
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- Leggiero pointed out the fact that the Senate has to
date failed to establish a probe committee on this matter: "it is
proof of a worrying lack of oversight on matters which are frankly
dramatic".
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- Members of the Observatory have petitioned a urgent
hearing "in order to study effective prevention and safeguard measures
aimed at reducing the death-toll amongst our serving soldiers".
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