It was only due to the actions of the world s press, Pravda. Ru being a frontrunner in this campaign, that NATO ever admitted at all that DU weapons had been used in Kosovo. While Belgian, Dutch and Italian troops had been warned about the dangers of working in the areas in which they were stationed, and consequently started using protective equipment, the Portuguese were not warned about any risk from radiation in Kosovo. The fact that certain forces were warned about the dangers of radiation and were issued with protective equipment would point to an undeniable admission that radioactive materials had been used, a flagrant case of violation of international agreements, already exposed in these pages in Pravda. Yet again, NATO tries to mount another cover-up over the death of Portuguese soldier, Corporal Hugo Paulino.
Evidence points to a series of attempts to hide the truth.
Firstly, the date of the death of this soldier was wrongly entered. These facts have caused a reaction by the Portuguese authorities, which have sent a team to Kosovo and will publish their results in the next weeks. Part of the evidence will certainly be the telephone conversations between Corporal Paulino and his father, from Kosovo, in which the young corporal complained of headaches and nausea . The autopsy presented by the Portuguese Military Hospital indeed presented leptomeningeal congestion as being one of the causes of death but also blood on the liver and an anomalous inflammation of the spleen all classic symptoms of radiation sickness. This was a military operation which left a trail of destruction.