MIM Notes 192 August 15 1999
Widespread environmental poisoning follows Yugoslavia bombing
by MIM

Reports of the serious environmental damage caused by the 
U.$./NATO bombing of Yugoslavia are slowly coming out in the 
bourgeois press. According to Mike Fineman, who writes for the LA 
Times news service, a night raid by U.$./NATO planes and missiles 
destroyed an Amerikan-built petrochemical plant in Yugoslavia, 
releasing a toxic cloud that blotted out sun throughout the 
following morning. The cloud contained levels of cancer-causing 
chemicals more than 10,000 times humyn safety levels. The same 
attack also dumped more than 100 tons of carcinogens into canals 
that empty into the Danube.

Fineman goes on to note that this incident was "hardly alone." 
Officials from other municipalities like Novisad are also worried 
that PCBs released by the bombing have contaminated their water 
supply. 

The environmental after-effects further disprove U.$./NATO 
boasts about "smart bombs" and "surgical strikes" - already called 
into question by the bombing of caravans of refugees and 
hospitals. Furthermore, the environmental fall-out of this 
imperialist military adventure will not stop at the borders of 
Yugoslavia. Poisons in the Danube and toxins in the air do not 
recognize humyn-made boundaries and could affect the other 
European states. 

One of the myths pushed by the imperialists and their media 
cronies was that the target of these attacks was the Milosevic 
regime and the Yugoslav military. The widespread "collateral 
damage" and long term effects on the health of the people in 
Serbia, Kosovo, and beyond refute that myth. 

Notes: International Herald Tribune, 7 July 1999.