{"id":1423,"date":"2003-03-31T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-31T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2003-03-31T13:04:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-31T17:04:00","slug":"depleted-uranium-friendly-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/03\/31\/13\/04\/depleted-uranium-friendly-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Depleted Uranium Friendly Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

So the world is suddenly agog when a British soldier gets killed by depleted uranium friendly fire<\/a>. It bears repeating: there’s nothing remotely friendly about dirty bullets made of poisonous uranium. The US complains that Iraq may be storying proscribed chemical weapons while ther Pentagon continues using radiological weapons<\/a> for as long as it can.<\/p>\n

Efforts by the US\/UK to keep depleted uranium off the agenda of the UN Sub-Commission on Protection and Promotion of Human Rights failed this August (2002) as the Sub-Commission clearly decided that depleted uranuim weaponry qualify as weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and authorized a prominent member, Justice Y. Sik Yuen (Mauritius) to prepare a study on the topic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Laws which are breached by the use of DU shells include: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Charter of the United Nations; the Genocide Convention; the Convention Against Torture; the four Geneva Conventions of 1949; the Conventional Weapons Convention of 1980; and the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, which expressly forbid employing ‘poison or poisoned weapons’ and ‘arms, projectiles or materials calculated to cause unnecessary suffering’.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>Earlier here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So the world is suddenly agog when a British soldier gets killed by depleted uranium friendly fire. It bears repeating: there’s nothing remotely friendly about dirty bullets made of poisonous uranium. The US complains...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t