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person or 2 tourists for its beautiful beaches and dramatic coastline italian island of sardinia is also major to make this work the locals long these tests of how to get back help for years the authorities have refuted those playing reporter emma alberici went to investigate. it. because does morale day is

a magnet for the rich and famous need hosts the most beautiful beaches in europe. it's not hard to see what draws people to this place. former prime minister silvio berlusconi was one of the 1st to invest here. but i've come here to investigate the darkest side the coverups the secrets the mystery illnesses in the blocks of life on this glorious island for decades. the wealth of the north is a stark contrast to other parts of the island where visitors are forbidden. the saudis plays host to some of the world's most elaborate war games like this one in 2015. trident junction was one of nato's biggest

exercises. dozens of countries were involved to play the military exclusion zones cover more than a 3rd of sardinians land sea and air play rome is reported to be nike one and a half $1000000.00 a day renting out the space to foreign forces and weapons manufacturers. down south the entire lotta the beaches are just a stunning but they mostly inaccessible. the reka family has been fishing in these waters for generations playing with the weight arabs are on their behalf but i was unaware of it yes i remember job only a couple of the manga give what the man got. bradstock of what they rather than what happens if you do they are morally. wrong about someone from a lower than

a lot of. the italian ministry of defense has deemed vast areas of the sea around sardinia off limits. around their government on a minute out of reformatting one annoy our profession where you regret your ability for no apparent your name in the military are they watching us. most of the military operations on sardinia have been kept secret since 951. they're the result of an arrangement struck with nato countries after the 2nd world war. and if you go. because. you know that. purely has made it his life's mission to bust open this wall of silence. he was once the political leader of sardinia but even then he couldn't get

access to see what was going on at the military bases on the morrow pili dida eventually get into the tire a lot of military side but only after he was elected to the federal parliament in raw and you want to know he was told they would be strictly no filming allowed. from imagining. what they're going to find him on or. to follow it. despite the secrecy bits of information have started to leak out. in 2017 sardinia unhealthful far she's confirmed clear fouls and 200 french maid. arrived on the yacht. and over the 20 years to 2003 some were fired a town larger of course in egypt to me it was

a misdemeanor. to love and law as he was this. year than. the guidance systems of these milan missiles each carries 3 grams of radioactive thore. in heiling florian dust increases the risk of lung and pancreatic cancer. in the school bus and usually the reason most was that the girl should not go to she was or she was but i think that. it was systematic. the main concern for sardinians living close to the firing ranges isn't about damage to the land or restricted axes. they're worried the bomb residue might be killing will. today or is saying goodbye to another of its citizens

59 year old mario drogo. as a young man he worked at the firing range. he died of lung cancer but he wasn't a smoker. many of the people gathered here have been touched by cancer. here share them with him most of them already in their church or they know they often speak to the modern state should you buy him off the show their job done a. lot of these it's been decided to intervene to do our share not all the more i wanted. to put julie on joining and his friends blame the italian defense force for their suffering so searching. due to modern almost. never found the focus of the full blown one of the usually a lot on your mother to love what i. well that our job and that is. the italian

military has always denied doing anything to hurt the people of the land all the animals of sardinia. of bondi of pierce and her husband john carroll have been fighting the military through the courts for 10 years but a little dilute the birthday it will still be a little our listeners'. not just. a vision of the past francesco pyrrhus did his national service in thailand it in the late ninety's he took part in military exercises and his parents say he was ordered to pick up old shields with his bare hands. a few years later at the age of 27 he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. his parents blame the armed forces when i say fuck without throw in the what i meant that group of gay men.

about the truth. of sort of a general of. course are normally. with the poor people. for example. this is the rubbish john carlos is built up in his sons leave. their particles so small they can quickly pass through your lungs and into your body. biomedical engineer anthony a to getit analyze francesco's liver tissue. she found nano particles of 7 different metals in the juma including crimea. tungsten and titanium. there's no metals industry around but these are all used by the arms industry. dr gassy believes francesco was contaminated by dust from

a big explosion icicle of. the cakes amid the colleague who were looking. for that for them in. the science of nano particles is still new but the world health organization says an early signs show that fine material may be harmful to public health. the w.h.o. is encouraging further research. dr getting has consultant to for parliamentary inquiries that looked into the activities of the italian defense force it was that if you know said the. that it printed. them in a corner. i thought it well if you've got the only real little bit you. just so. it's a 30000000. dollars if you.

keep. them. it's a 2 hour drive heading north out of town larder to the queerer bombing range. this is the scene of tragic health stories and mysterious birth defects that have come to be dumped the queerest syndrome. for many here life still slow and traditional. but it sounds like a skull a plateau perched on the edge of the firing range. zarin fly to the sea by the beach or the sea board to agree that you quit because of food. or disorder.

but much of the much about this will be cut but i want to believe that the query. we're at is the biggest military test site in europe. it's used by nice countries as well as israel. those living nearby have known much tragedy. doc to guess he has become an advocate for some of the people of queer and. maria teresa already had 10 healthy children when her last child arrived in 1988. the baby girl was born so severely deformed her mother has never let her photo be saying. she was baptized maria grassy or she was blind and couldn't move or speak i think that's. part. of my.

skull apply no symmetry is a sad testament. one in 4 of the children born in the same year as maria ground 0 and some kind of deformity. come into the mother. and spoken into the heart of the convert. the data set up on that is about your knowledge of. jumpier osgar new has tried to hold the military to account he led a 2 year parliamentary inquiry. and his committee met fierce resistance from the

chiefs of defense. send them to follow an offer that each of their cause and one trillion the 4th of. may police going to support they were further queer looking. but can shed on this from control. we've made repeated attempts to speak to the military during our search for this story but we've been blocked at every turn now this document dated 2011 has come our way it's a confidential ministry of defense memo instructing military officials on how to respond to questions about the health and environmental conditions in and around the bombing sites what stands out is what they're told to say about birth defects they're told to explain it away with the shocking allegation that children born with deformities of the result of inbreeding. those are the 1st of the leaders to

go. in this is general fabio maltin a former head of the queer a base he's core françois' t.v. delivery back a missing each soldier by a passing by a stranger will leave their lives in the world are profitable given all the only there's no evidence to support that climb. the children born with disabilities were conceived in the late eighty's when old munitions bombs and rockets were being routinely despised all at queer they were blown up in a piece 20 meters deep. and 40 meters wide. if. not. it got comical and are already night. long.

decades dust from explosions and tests has rained down on the towns and the grazing fields of the firing range. exactly what was in them no one knows. in the early 2000 local doctors saw a spike in the number of unusual cancers in their patients. at the same time over in florence military pilot do any kind of chiro was raising his concerns. he'd seen a high incidence of cancers among fellow soldiers returning from kosovo where they had been exposed to depleted uranium. stomach around. treated before the it's an internet so that it's not going to know if we're going to be perfect or

intervene you're getting better luck when you've had immunity and i mean to explore so again we don't see. this to remain. going to be no not that or you're immune to the minute. you have little bit if you will be deja. the italian military felt the pressure. depleted uranium is mildly radioactive and long suspected of causing cancer and birth defects. it's used to help missiles penetrate. at queerer scientist francesco recombine i was fly. by the ministry of defense to do some soil tests in front of a swarm of local media. or some more of us are going to convince your friends will remember something out of. the t.v. but maybe in all of them the run for your dog monitor. is

a little francesco riccobono i didn't find any depleted uranium keeping quiet about the possible presence of thore i'm defense declared the firing range clear. of the sunni had never run in a battle. i could pull you are not evil even to the lesser of the year so nobody's going to miss you not one of the line i took you that you grow it into an. i was fairly recent with it said this is. my work. when in 2010 events took a shocking turn. the photos you're about to see are disturbing. a land born with one. others with deformities the line and severity of which scientists and public health experts had never seen before.

why we spoke with all about doric. they don't want to know that was their mother got it all better your mom they don't kick. then but. then. i don't know better move in there because the my former. believe. georgia mehlis corrosion report for the district helpful farsi assessing the risks posed by the bombing range from markedly the team of scientists found 65 percent of the shepherds living close to the range had cancers but if we store a new police on the brain sort of more. we bomb more.

of them into polluted bit of. the bed. but it. was the only main. main. form of it. in more. generalising. immediately a formal police investigation was launched the court ordered the exhumation of 18 shipments who died in the 20 years up to 2010. bines was shipped here to easily snow and examined at 2 universities. nuclear physicist vandross seanie lead some of that research. this

will go. to analyse of all but. and all in the car for. the. your. view there. those 11 shepherds with high levels of thore and in their binds had all lived close to the firing range. or nor are the shore dogs in quite that authority or by george. the opposition there. in the regional capital lana say the chief prosecutor called a meeting with the scientists to dump a psaltis thing to the military. why hadn't research of francesco rekha bono found

any ranee of all the much more dangerous dorian in the soil as we were. while he was questioned up steve's outside police opened his car and he did a listening device inside. as he drove back to the airport the bug picked up his conversation with an assistant. he'd been interrogated for leaving thore him out of his record and he was angry with the military this age going with them because the ones who commissioned us to do this work that if you thought that was important if you're honest you say to me make sure to include it because it's important to. francesco rekha bono's university received a $2400000.00 government grant to carry out its work he was later acquitted of charges that he was involved in a cover up. tomorrow purely is still convinced of foul play. get it

down or slow down the fast so there's that will be the way that the. ball. in so many things i thought a single. barack with every thought and being. 8 former commanders at queerer and now on trial charged with breaching the duty of care for the health and safety of soldiers and civilians. one of them is fabio tenney infamously caught on film climbing sardinians in brit school another is paolo ritchie who had declared queerer iranian free of the world business but it really really after 2 decades and 3 previous inconclusive inquiries last g. and john piero sky news committee made

a bold finding and of course trying to mentor 1st among the list is the incessant burnell judy the blue mess so the cozily. lecture 30 suppose it's on the loo then in full really don't they live but gee i didn't check that a minute that it questo not get the media out in. the 1st time nano particles of depleted uranium were found to play a role in the possible development of cheap. crucially for ian when inhaled or ingested was found to be 5 times more dangerous than depleted uranium. the scanner report was dismissed by the italian defense force. there to think and they refer to. in the letter a letter on the. the last commission on the care president for an element that says that that's critical of it. but after all that work by the commission and. the

law to monitor the health of soldiers was blocked by the upper house in russia. for decades sardinia has held its secrets close. it's been locked in an uncomfortable embrace with the world's military. in a country minding days defense contracts are a source of income but also quite possibly the cause of untold misery. after all the inquiries and with military brass now on trial for the people of this island paradise there is a glimmer of hope that the truth might finally see the light of day.

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