❁ World Uranium Weapons Conference 2003

_TITLE PLATE, World Uranium Conference 2003

Conference Documentation:

mp3-Audio: Speeches of the Conference / Konferenzreden

34 mp3-audio-files of presentations and interviews, may be copied for non-profit use (www.traprockpeace.org/depleted_uranium_hamburg03.html)

ECRR Handbook (Dr. Chris Busby) with full TOC and index done by Dr. Ross Wilcock: http://216.138.195.197

Poster: "Abolish DU / Deadly Uranium Weapons"

The Poster designed by Bonnie Urfer from Nukewatch can be ordered at following address:

Nukewatch / P.O. Box 649 / Luck, Wisc. 54853 / www.nukewatch.com

Speakers / Referentinnen und Referenten

Scientists / Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler

Prof. Dr. Al-Aboudi Abdul Kadhum, Algeria

Depleted Uranium And Its Impact On Animals and Environment in Iraq and Algeria

Tables Results

Dr. Jawad Al-Ali

www.avui.es/avui/diari/03/gen/04/60104.htm

www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/uran/iraq5_e/000620.html

www.nuclearpolicy.org/NewsArticle.cfm?NewsID=577

pilger.carlton.com/iraq/film

es.news.yahoo.com/030806/24/2vskc.html

www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/pol/fisk2304.html

Dr. Souad Al-Azzawi, Iraq, Recipient of the prestigious international 2003 Nuclear Free Future Award,
and 10 000 Euro prize

Biography (english) / Biographie (englisch)

Biography (german) / Biographie (deutsch)

www.irak.be/ned/archief/irak.htm

www.circlevision.org/archive/events00/tribunal/pages/mb.html

Dr. Chris Busby, Great Britain

Biography (english) / Biographie (englisch)

Biography (german) / Biographie (deutsch)

www.llrc.org

www.llrc.org/misc/subtopic/cv.htm

www.nirs.org/reactors/busbyonmillstone32001.htm

www.xs4all.nl/~stgvisie/VISIE/ahram-fe2.html

www.rnw.nl/science/html/uranium001127.html

www.xs4all.nl/~stgvisie/VISIE/du-iraq-3rd-war.html

www.wandsworth-stopwar.org.uk/du

www.uni-kassel.de/fb10/frieden/themen/DU-Geschosse/queck.html

www.greenaudit.org/depleted_uranium.htm

www.bristol.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=5823&group=webcast

Depleted Science: Health Consequences and Mechanisms of Exposure to Fallout from Depleted Uranium Weapons

Dr. Ralf Cüppers, Germany

www.uranmunition.de

netzwerk-regenbogen.de/kritik_welt100101.html

netzwerk-regenbogen.de/uran_muni050201.html

Dr. Antonietta M. Gatti, Italy

europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/scmp/members_en.html

www.biomat.unimo.it/eng/nanopat.htm

www.nanopathology.it

Prof. Siegwart-Horst Gunther, Germany

www.sdnl.nl/gunther-home.htm

www.firethistime.org/guntheressay.htm

cnorman.best.vwh.net/blazing/uranium.html

Dr. Genan Hassan, Iraq

www.benjaminforiraq.org/contaminazione/Further%20Evidence%20on%20Relation%20between

%20Depleted%20Uranium.htm

www.converge.org.nz/pma/duevi.htm

www.isra.cix.co.uk/newsite/iraq/IrqaqDU.htm

Prof. Mohammed Daud Miraki, Afghanistan

Biography (english) / Biographie (englisch)

Biography (german) / Biographie (deutsch)

The Silent Genocide from America, June 2003

The Perpetual Death from America, 24-02-2003

The New Paradigm of Forced Socioeconomic Underdevelopment

Afghan DU & Recovery Fund: www.afghandufund.org

Leuren Moret, USA

Biography (english) / Biographie (englisch)

"Shock and Awe": The Pentagon's fiery crucibiles of war (March 10, 2003)

Press Release (April 25, 2003)

Presseerklärung Release (25. April 2003)

U.S. Nuclear Policy and Depleted Uranium (June 28, 2003)

traprockpeace.org/TribTest062803.html

traprockpeace.org/WBAIDepletedUranium.mp3 (Audio)

Dr. Doug Rokke, USA

www.futurenet.org/25environmentandhealth/rokke.htm

sftimes.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$61

www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2003/Gulf-War-Rokke6jan03.htm

traprockpeace.org/Rokketalk03May03.mp3 (Audio)

traprockpeace.org/rokkemiller111302.mp3 (Audio)

traprockpeace.org/rokkeyesspring03.html

Heike Schröder, Germany

www.uft.uni-bremen.de/epi/html/mitarbeiter/mit01.html

www.lebenshaus-alb.de/mt/archives/001736.html

uk.news.yahoo.com/030416/12/dxvql.html

traprockpeace.org/ducleanup.html

nucnews.net/nucnews/2003nn/0304nn/030415nn.htm

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❁ Prof. Alim Yacoub, Iraq ❁

The Evidence For Causal Association Between Exposure To Depleted Uranium And Malignancies Among Children In Basrah By Applying Epidemiological Criteria Of Causality

www.commondreams.org/views02/0920-06.htm

Dedication… While in the process of editing these Proceedings, we (staff, 2003) received notice of the sudden and tragic death of Dr. Alim Yacoub of Iraq.

Dr. Yacoub was killed in a car accident, along with his son, while driving from Baghdad to Basrah on January 31, 2004. Dr. Alim Yacoub was a Professor of Community Medicine and former Dean at the Al Mustansiriya College of Medicine. He is survived by a wife and two children.

Dr. Yacoub was a well known researcher on the DU issue. He had been invited to present at the Hamburg Conference in October. He tried twice to cross the border from Iraq to Jordan, but was not successful. The paper we include in this Proceedings is from his study, and we believe his important work should not be forgotten.

We dedicate these Proceedings to the memory of Dr. Yacoub, and to his work, which has advanced the struggle and effort of so many others on this issue.

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Prof. Katsuma Yagasaki, Japan

Biography (english) / Biographie (englisch)

Depleted Uranium Shells, The Radioactive Weapons

Veterans / Veteranen

Ray Bristow, Great Britain

www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/voices/story/0,12820,887957,00.html

www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4597420,00.html

Patricia Rodriguez, Spain

Patricia's boyfriend Antonio (picture on the right side) died due to a extremely accute leukemia after he was sent to Kosovo

Biography (english) / Biographie (englisch)

Philip Steele, Australia

17 January 1991 - The date marking the first day of the Air War against Iraq

Civilians

Nibby David , Great Britain

Biography (english) / Biographie (englisch)

Henk van der Keur, Netherlands, Laka Foundation, Documentation and Research Centre on Nuclear Energy

Biography (english) / Biographie (englisch)

www.laka.org

International Law / Internationales Recht

Solange Fernex und Michel Fernex, France, member of IPPNW Switzerland, member of Abolition 2000

Health Effections of Ionizing Radiation Released by Incorporated Radionuclides (Chernobyl/DU etc)

Manfred Mohr, Germany, IALANA

Biography (english) / Biographie (englisch)

Biography (german) / Biographie (deutsch)

www.IALANA.de

www.ialana.org

Karen Parker, USA

The Illegality of DU Weaponry

www.webcom.com/hrin/parker.html

www.webcom.com/hrin/parker/biograph.html

www.webcom.com/hrin/parker/c96-20.html

Prof. Christian P. Scherrer, Japan, Hiroshima Peace Institute, HPI-HUC

Biography (english) / Biographie (englisch)

Biography (german) / Biographie (deutsch)

Invasion of Iraq, the U.N., U.S. Unilateralism and Crimes against Humanity: Perspectives for Accountability

International Tribunal on Crimes Committed by US-UK Against Iraq: Invitation to endorse the initiative to converse an international tribunal

International Tribunal on Crimes Committed by US-UK Against Iraq: Draft - Main Headlines of the issues to be addressed at the tribunal

International Tribunal on Crimes Committed by US-UK Against Iraq: Mission statement

Anti-DU Campaigners / Anti-DU Aktivistinnen und Aktivisten

Davey Garland, Great Britain, Pandora DU Research Project

Biography (english) / Biographie (englisch)

www.pandoraproject.org

Nobuo Kazashi, Japan

Biography (english) / Biographie (englisch)

Biography (german) / Biographie (deutsch)

NO DU Hiroshima Project: www.transnet-jp.com/DUban

3.2 Hiroshima NO WAR NO DU Human Message put in the New York Times, March 24, 2003

Pauline Rigby, Australia, DUSK, Depleted Uranium Silent Killer

Biography (english) / Biographie (englisch)

www.seaswap.org

www.iratiwanti.org

Rae Street, Great Britain, CADU

Biography (english) / Biographie (englisch)

www.cadu.org.uk

www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/uran/after_e/000712.html

www.buzan.com.au/contact_us.htm

Independent / Unabhängige

Piotr Bein, Canada

Biography / Biographie

Uranium Weapons Cover-ups in Our Midst

www.stopnato.org.uk/du-watch/bein/swiss.htm

emperors-clothes.com/articles/arbuth/port.htm

news.suc.org/bydate/2001/Jan_03/8.html

www.uni-kassel.de/fb10/frieden/themen/DU-Geschosse/delponte.html

www.xs4all.nl/~stgvisie/VISIE/Iraq-cancer.html

Alfredo Embid, Spain

Biography (german) / Biographie (deutsch)

Dai Williams, Great Britain

eosuk@btinternet.com

www.eoslifework.co.uk

Moderators / Moderatorinnen und Moderatoren

Felicity Arbuthnot, Great Britain

www.wsws.org/de/2003/mar2003/arbu-m29.shtml

www.wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/arbu-m18.shtml

www.embargos.de/literatur/buch_belagert.htm

www.iraqchat.com/felicity.htm

www.flyte.net/iraq/about.html

pilger.carlton.com/iraq/myths2

www.pucl.org/iraq.htm

Claus Biegert, Germany, Nuclear Free Future Award

www.nuclear-free.com

www.nuclear-free.com/english/biegert.htm

www.ratical.org/radiation/WorldUraniumHearing/OpeningSpeechEve.html

www.denkmal-film.com/abstracts/Secret.html

Xanthe Hall, Germany, IPPNW

www.uni-muenster.de/PeaCon/wuf/wf-95/9540701m.htm

www.inesap.org/bulletin15/autor/xantehall.htm

www.heute.t-online.de/ZDFheute/artikel/5/0,1367,MAG-0-2035493,00.html

www.uni-kassel.de/fb10/frieden/themen/Atomwaffen/hall.html

ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/RichterPeill/atomab2.htm

Marion Küpker, Germany, GAAA

www.gaaa.org

www.irak.be/ned/missies/kuepker.htm

www.gaaa.org/inspektionen.html

www.uia.ac.be/u/carpent/kosovo/messages/1622.html

Facilitators

Sunny Miller, Traprock Peace Center

traprockpeace.org

Regrets received / Entschuldigte Rednerinnen und Redner

Christine Abdelkrim-Delanne, France

Prof. Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, Iraq

Felicity Arbuthnot, Pack of lies, The Ecologist, July/August 2003

Is US covering up DU impacts in Iraq?, The Ecologist, July/August 2003

Prof. Yury Bandazhevsky, imprisoned in Minsk, Belarus, Expert on radiation exposure caused by the Chernobyl accident

Manifesto for Pr. Bandazhevsky's Release and Freedom of Research

Prof. Rosalie Bertell, Canada (unable to come because of illness)

Biography (english) / Biographie (englisch)

Text

www.ccnr.org/bertell_bio.html

www.ccnr.org/bertell_book.html

www.ratical.org/radiation/RBanNun.html

www.rightlivelihood.se/recip/bertell.htm

Hervé Desplat, France

Prof. Durakovic, Uranium Medical Research Centre

Explanation for UMRC Withdrawal from the Conference

Biography (english) / Biographie (englisch)

Biography (german) / Biographie (deutsch)

www.xs4all.nl/~stgvisie/VISIE/duracovic.html

www.UMRC.net

www.ecoglobe.org.nz/nuclear/dufood.htm

traprockpeace.org/durakovic19may03.mp3 (Audio)

Dr. Malcolm Hooper, Great Britain

www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/voices/story/0,12820,887961,00.html

osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/autism/hooper2000.htm

osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/autism/hooperpg1.htm

Masako Ito, Japan, DU Center Japan

www.JCA.APC.org/DUCJ

Tedd Weyman, Field Investigations’ Team Lead, Uranium Medical Research Centre

Explanation for UMRC Withdrawal from the Conference

Biography (english) / Biographie (englisch)

www.xs4all.nl/~stgvisie/VISIE/duracovic.html

www.UMRC.net

www.ecoglobe.org.nz/nuclear/dufood.htm

traprockpeace.org/durakovic19may03.mp3 (Audio)

Others / Weitere

Beatrice Boctor

www.cam.ac.uk/societies/cuai/spkrmeet/97lent.htm

www.casi.org.uk/discuss/1999/msg00367.html

www.firethistime.org/extremedeformities.htm

www.sierraclub.ca/national/nuclear/du/du-backgrounder-1999.html

Bernice Boermans

www.thehaguelegalcapital.nl/lc/whoiswho/ialanawho

Helen Caldicott, USA

www.noradiation.org/caldicott

www.noradiation.org/caldicott/bio.html

Ramsey Clark

www.iacenter.org

i-p-o.org/Clark.htm

weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/624/profile.htm

www.iacenter.org/rcun.htm

www.thesunmagazine.org/bully.html

www.deoxy.org/wc/warcrime.htm

Leonard Dietz

www.antenna.nl/~wise/uranium/dgvd.html

Dr. Bogdan Jamedzija, Bosnia

www.ianford.com/articles/18du.html

www.cedar.at/mailarchives/infoterra/2000/msg01898.html

www.cdsp.neu.edu/info/students/marko/reporter/reporter85.html

Michio Kaku, USA

www.mkaku.org/about

Dr. Miroslav Kopecni, Serbia

www.fas.org/news/serbia/fbis-ten-97-004.htm

www.vin.bg.ac.yu/YUNS/about.html

Francesco Lannuzelli, Italy, Peacelink

Dr. Eisuke Matsui, MD, Gifu Research Institute for Environmental Medicine Physician for Respiratory Diseases, Radiologist

afghan-tribunal.3005.net/english/index.htm

Inge Schmitz-Feuerhacke

www.oh-strahlen.org/isf

www.gruene-atpo.de/akws/kruemmel/gutachten-stevenson/schmitz-feuerhake

www.oneworldweb.de/castor/material/buecher/ottohug.html

www.kernchemie.uni-mainz.de/strahlenschutz/stuttgzeit_081298.html

Edward DeSutter, Holland

Too many babies without eyes in Irak

Summary of Event

Conference short (PDF)

The following text as Acrobat-PDF-document

World Depleted/Uranium Weapons Conference

We are preparing a World Uranium Weapons Conference to do work on a new and in some ways more prevalent and immediate nuclear threat: the issue of organizing an international campaign seeking the official ban of uranium weapons and their classification as weapons of mass destruction.

For some years activists have faced the problem that the U.S. and British government are producing and upgrading their weapon systems containing uranium. With these also-radioactive weapons the boundaries between conventional and nuclear weapons becomes completely obscured. Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General of the United States writes,

"DU weapons are not conventional weapons. They are highly toxic, radioactive weapons. All international law on warfare has attempted to limit violence to combatants and to prevent the use of cruel unfocussed weapons….Consequently, DU weapons violate international law because of their inherent cruelty and unconfined death dealing effect. They threaten civilian populations now and for generations to come."

Under pressure from activist groups the military itself was reluctantly forced to admit that huge amounts of uranium weapons (320 t DU) got used for the first time in southern Iraq in 1991, 3 t in Bosnia and 10 t in Serbia and Kosovo. Credible independent researchers believe that some 1000 t uranium was used in the bombing in Afghanistan, and at least that the same amount is expected in the recent war in Iraq. Experts from all allied NATO countries are observing an increase of the so-called Gulf and Balkan War Syndrome amongst veterans, which some link to the use of uranium ammunitions. Leading international independent researchers believe that exposure to DU during the 1991 Gulf War are responsible for the majority of the current, ongoing medical problems reported by over 260,000 returning veterans (one-third of all the troops participating in that war!), a rate with dire implications for future wars and conflicts where these weapons were recently and further intended to be used.

The uranium isotope used in DU has a half-life of 4.5 billion years. DU and other uranium weapons are weapons with indiscriminate effects, causing genetic damage and by this endangering over generations the human race as a whole. Articles 35 and 56 of the Geneva Convention clearly prohibit weapons which are this indiscriminate and catastrophic in their effects on civilian populations, suggesting that their use could legally constitute war crimes.

The governments using DU ammunition deny the link of these weapons with the illnesses and are lobbying hard to make a large, scientifically credible inquiry in Iraq impossible. They even try to hide the information of which kinds of weapons contain uranium today.

Cancer rates in Iraq have increased dramatically over the rates noted before the Gulf War of 1991. A planned study supposed to be done by the UN was turned down in December 2001 under the pressure of the U.S. government. Also scientific magazines infrequently publish the results of smaller independent studies (1). This whole situation brought quite some irritation inside the scientific circle and inside the peace activist movement. For example the results of two recent studies which have already calculated the cumulative dose effects to both Iraqi civilians and Allied and Iraqi troops during the Gulf War if 1991 are not well known among the larger international medical, health and scientific communities; while at the same time, reports by government bodies who use DU ammunitions are well publicised, distributed and give the impression that no or little effect exists.

We believe a World Uranium Weapons Conference is needed to bring together the scientific experts with their independent studies and the peace, veterans, and anti-nuclear movements to get updated and have the results of their studies and their work combined. The Conference will also include extra time for the conference members to combine existing information, and to discuss the need for creating, conducting and funding their own additional independent, peer-reviewed, international study on the health hazards caused by the use of uranium weapons worldwide. Specifically, attention must be given to Iraq before the data is lost or corrupted by the occupation. Because many governments have the stated agenda of perpetuating uranium weapons, their conclusions about uranium weapons effects are not reliable or acceptable. Therefore, the independent international non-governmental movements will have to be responsible for the huge costs of this kind of study, which cannot be done by a single country or organisation.

Ideally such a study should be conducted or co-ordinated by WHOWHO´s operations are potentially compromised by its constitutional obligations to the IAEA with its strong obligations tothe nuclear lobby. The WHO is not allowed to publish results without the consensus of the IAEA. The results of any study done by WHO on DU or other uranium weapons issues therefore should be highly suspect in its credibility. It therefore becomes the additional responsibility of our movements to constantly review and publicly critique all governmental claims on these issues.

Full-scale independent peer review of existing data, continued independent study, and a unified plan of action will lead to the evidence needed to get uranium weapons officially banned by the international community.

Thank you for your consideration of this project. We welcome your future interest and involvement.

For peace,

Marion Kuepker

Co-Coordinator, GAAA

World Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference

www.uraniumweaponsconference.de - www.uranwaffenkonferenz.de

Co-Coordinator Marion Kuepker, Germany, ph. +49 40 4307332, marionkuepker@compuserve.com

Gewaltfreie Aktion Atomwaffen Abschaffen, www.gaaa.org

[The Gewaltfreie Aktion Atomwaffen Abschaffen - GAAA - is a German non-governmental organisation dedicated to the total abolition of nuclear weapons. GAAA observes and pressures the nuclear weapon states to fulfil their obligation under international law and treaties to start to abolish their nuclear weapons. The U.S. government has deployed B-61 nuclear bombs in seven different European countries and has also stationed Thunderbolt warplanes with depleted uranium ammunition in Germany, Italy and elsewhere. We organise actions on civil disobedience at these military bases in Germany, and conduct public hearings to inform the German population. Besides this we do lobby work and network with affiliated groups in Europe and throughout the world.]

(1) Dr. Souad N. Al–Azzawi, Environmental Damages Resulting from Using Depleted Uranium Weaponry against Iraq During 1991 Aggression by USA and its Allies; also, Prof. Asaf Durakovic, M.D., Urinary Excretion of Uranium Isotopes in the Gulf War Veterans After Inhalation Exposure to Depleted Uranium, Eleventh International Congress of Radiation Research, Dublin, Ireland, July 18-23, 1999; Urinary Excretion of Uranium Isotopes in British, Canadian and United States Gulf War Veterans, European Association of Nuclear Medicine, Paris, September 2-6, 2000. http://www.URMC.net

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Donation / Spende

Kurzinfo und Spendenaufruf zur Konferenz (PDF)
Conference short and funding appeal (german, PDF)

Account for Donations / Spendenkonto

Förderverein Frieden

Account Number / Kontonummer: 563 131 004

Bank: Volksbank Stuttgart (Germany)

Bank Code / BLZ: 600 910 00

Memo / Stichwort: GAAA-Uranwaffenkonferenz

(The donations are tax deductible in Germany. / Die Spenden sind in Deuschland steuerabzugsfähig.)

Gewaltfreie Aktion Atomwaffen Abschaffen

Account Number / Kontonummer: 8019151200

(International Account Number / Internationale Kontonummer IBAN: DE57430609678019151200 )