of the hindu faith into something more like the team i didn't see of the british football i meet with victims of violence and discover what life is like for minorities in the country join me on my journey in search of india's soul on al-jazeera. best known to tourists for its beautiful beaches and dramatic coastline italian island of sardinia is also a major company that makes the western locals long like these tests of how toxic effect health for years the authorities have refuted those playing reporter emma alberici went to investigate.

it. because doesn't morale day is a magnet for the rich and famous you need hosts the most beautiful beaches in all of 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 wargamers like this one in 2015. trident junction it 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 have been fishing in these waters for generations playing with the weight

arabs on their behalf while i was unaware of it yes i remembered your dummy a couple of the manga give what the man got. bradstock of what they were rather than what happens if you do they are morally. wrong marked up someone really were there. the italian ministry of defense has deemed vast areas of the city around sardinia off limits. around their government on a minute out of where marikana annoy our progress and where you regret your ability for nowhere and your name in the military are they watching and. 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 know that your view that.

there. are a 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 purely dida eventually get into the tire lot of military side but only after he was elected to the federal parliament in raw and you were the no he was told they would be strictly no filming allowed. you mention imagine if. you're going to fire the man or. if i don't know it mean for. me. despite the secrecy bits of information have started to leak out. in 2017 sardinia unhealthful far she's confirmed clean fowls and 200 french

maid. arrived on the yacht. and over the 20 years to 2003 some were fired a town larger question you need to mean there's a misdemeanor. to love analyze here was this. idea the year than. the guidance systems of these milan missiles each carry 3 grams of radioactive phoria. in heiling florian dust increases the risk of long and pancreatic cancer. in the school bus and you saw that he thought it was the most was that the girl should not do the she or she was but i think that. it was the summer that. 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 shared a modicum of good morning their church i don't know about us and we took a lot of the stage you know but i'm off to the show their level of the job and. no more you don't see it i will get a lot of these it's been decided to intervene to do our share not at all the more i want to measure julie on joining and his friends blame the italian defense force for their suffering. due to modern almost. never found that the sort of the

for. the 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. avanti of pyrrus and her husband john carlo have been fighting the military through the courts for 10 years are going to dilute the but they. will still be able are. just. a vision of the past francesco pyrrhus did his national service of thailand it in the late ninety's he took part in military exercises and his parents say he was ordered to pick up all shelters 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 whenever they fuck without throw in no matter what i meant. about the truth. of sort of a general of. course i'm normally. with the. law. for example. this is the rubbish john carlos says built up in his son's liver. there particles so small they can quickly pass through your lungs and into your body. biomedical engineer anthony a to get it analyzed francesco's liver tissue the and 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 at the. ok. who are looking. for that for them in. the science of nano particles is still new but the world health organization says early signs show that find material may be harmful to public health. the w.h.o. is encouraging further research. dr gaddy has consulted to 4 parliamentary inquiries that looked into the activities of the italian defense force it was that if you know said the painter that it printed. them in a corner or. authority figure out the

only real little bit you. very. much is so. so that it knew. this. very. well. 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 flying. to see the children the seaboard the agree that he 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 had some kind of deformity. committing the mother. and spoken into that part of. the data set up on that about your knowledge of. normal.

john pierre osgar new has tried to hold the military to account he led a 2 year parliamentary inquiry. his committee met fierce resistance from the chiefs of defense. so nontrivial level for the rich of the cause and one trillion the forth. may pully going to support there were further queer look. but come on chad initial. 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 told to cite about birth defects

they're told to explain it away with a shocking allegation that children born with deformities of the result of embrace all these are the 1st of the leaders to go. this is general fabio maltin a former head of the queer a base he's cool françois' t.v. delivery that came a siege of our soldiers by a passing by a stray bullet either hit in the world or a prosecutor's office 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 despise dolls' and queerer they were blown up in a piece 20 meters deep and 40 meters wide. it

might. not settle your families it goddammit commoner already know. decades dust from explosion. 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 many 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 the good of the suture they were treated in the internet so that it's not going to be perfect intervene you're getting better like 2030 minutes and i mean to explode so again we don't see it. remain. on. me no not. yet immune to the main arteries paid. to its unity and you have little bit if you will be jammed. 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 flown in by the ministry of defense to do some soil in front of

a swarm of local media. are going to convince your out. of the photograph of. the debug people are moving all. over the bottom of the monitor yet there's a little francesco riccobono didn't find any depleted uranium keeping quiet about the possible press. and so thory i'm defense declared the firing range clear. to the sunni had never run anonymous but after a battle. police are not evil even to the last of the year so really going into. one of the line i think you did you grow it to. be there. when i was through that you said with it's a disgrace and. then 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. they thought. well no that was their mother or your mother kicked. the and. then. bit of in there it was the mother for them or. believe. there to georgia malice corrosion reporter for the district health or farsi assessing the risk posed by the bombing range. from arguably

the team of scientists found 65 percent of the shepherds living close to the range had cancers but good place for a new body one of being sort of more ok. we bomb more. then. we need and if it. blows your only bombard them into a little bit about. the quest for the better. but. the only main. main. beyond which are cattle the informatic they live. in more. immediately a formal police investigation was launched the court ordered the exhumation of 18 shipments died in the 20 years up to 2010.

binds were shipped here to easily snow and examined at 2 universities. nuclear physicist vandross seanie live some of that research. analyse is all but. in the car or. in. your. view. those 11 shepherds with high levels of thore in the nearby had all lived close to the firing range. or nor are the shore dogs in quite that it guard your my jaw at. the opposite end there.

in the regional capital lana say the chief prosecutor called a meeting with the scientist who dumped the soil testing to the military. why hadn't research of francesco rico bono found any ranee and all the much more dangerous story i'm 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 and words out of his record and he was angry with the military this age gone with don't go the ones who commissioned us to do this work 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. morrow pili is still convinced of foul play. or slow down the facets that will beat the roy the. ball. in so many think that the icing. on the. 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 little

businesswoman and it really after 2 decades and 3 previous inconclusive inquiries last jia john piero's garner his committee made a bold finding and of course trying to mentor for a month or less is the incessant be on the jury because you may 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 a quest will not get the media. for the 1st time nano particles of depleted uranium were found to play a role in the possible development of cheap. crucially for eon when in high old foreign just as it was found to be 5 times more dangerous than depleted uranium. the scanner report was dismissed by the italian defense force. and they refer to. the letter

a letter on the. the larkham. for an element that says that the script elevated that. but after all that work by the commission a new 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 mired in debt 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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