January 09, 2001
"Zenmin zinbao": There are other victims apart from KFOR soldiers
http://www.serbia-info.com/news/2001-01/09/21835.html

Beijing, January 9 (Tanjug) - The Chinese media severely criticize today the usage of the bombs with depleted uranium in NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, reminding that these bombs, seriously endangering people's lives and health and the environment, were used in the name of the so-called "humanitarian goals".

The leading Chinese journal "Zenmin zinbao", in the leading article concerning the news on the "Balkan syndrome" and ill members of the international forces in Kosovo and Metohija (KFOR), estimates that "causing damage to others is causing damage to oneself".

Estimating that the issues on "serious consequences", caused by NATO bombs with depleted uranium, "deserve serious consideration", the Chinese journal, above all, points out to the "passive" attitude of the United States of America, which "has not given any data" on the usage of these bombs.

During the armed intervention in the Balkans, the US "loudly called on the humanitarian goals", but now, "without hesitation, they deny the radiation contamination", and it is the issue "concerning human life and it should be treated with the greatest concern", the Chinese journal notes, concluding that the American "twofold standards and hypocrisy in the moral issues" are obvious.

The author criticizes also paying attention only to the destiny of the peacekeeping soldiers in the international forces in the Balkans by the European media, underscoring that "in fact, the greatest victims are the Balkan peoples, especially citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia".

The Chinese journal emphasizes the universally accepted estimation that "every man has equal rights from his birth", which is "generally accepted as the leading principle concerning human rights in today's worlds".

Connected with that, the author estimates that the Western media, draw in "unequal and unobjective way" attention to the question of "human rights".