U.S., Britain to be sued by Iraq over depleted uranium bomb use

The Iraqi Ministry for Human Rights is filing a lawsuit against the United States and the United Kingdom over its use of depleted uranium bombs in the country.

Wijdan Mikhail Salim, Iraq’s Human Rights Minister, announced that a lawsuit will be launched based on reports by the ministries of science and environment that accused the US and Britain of repeatedly using depleted uranium bombs during the first year of the war in Iraq, according to Press TV. Iraqi military experts have concurred that the US and British military used nearly 2,000 tons of depleted uranium bombs to blast the country in the early days of the war. Thus, the amount of atomic radiation has caused the increase of a number of children being born with defects in the southern provinces of Iraq. Doctors in the country say they are also having a hard time coping and dealing with the rise in the number of cancer cases. The ministry will seek remuneration and compensation from both states for the victims of these bombs. It is expected that these numbers are going to increase as the radiation continues to persist in soil and water in the central and northern provinces in Iraq. In 2007, Truth Dig noted that there were a large number of cases where US military personnel and Iraqi citizens were diagnosed with cancer, which dubbed the cancer scare in the region to be an epidemic and many assumed it was a result of depleted uranium.