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In 1998, Diane Johnson reported that IGC, an international think tank that does osome of NATO's thinking, proposed that the Internationals seize the smelter using an environmental excuse. This week KFOR (NATO in Kosovo) did just that taking over the Zvecan smelting plant, part of the larger 40 mine Trepca mining complex. Wearing surgical masks (not gas masks?), troops stormed in and took over the plant.
The concern for the welfare of the citizens of Kosovo is touching. It does make you wonder why, then NATO, created the environmental catastrophe in Yugoslavia with the use of depleted uranium and cluster bombs in its very own bombing campaign.
And as detailed in Sara Flounders article of 1998, the ulterior motive behind the humanitarian bluff was the extraordinary wealth in the 40 mine complex of Trepca, which is filled with the veins of lead, zinc, cadmium, gold and silver.
Thanks to the work of these two women, a journalist and an activist, the story behind the story of the Trepca mines come to light.
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