Preliminary results of a scientific medical study show an increase in the incidence of malignant diseases, especially leukemia in children 5 to 9 years old. The number of children suffering from malignant diseases of blood and brain has significantly increased and since 1999 (the year of NATO's 78-day aerial war against Serbia) and has been rising each year.

Danica Grujicic, head of the Neuroscience Unit of the Clinical Center of Serbia, who is also a member of a commission set up to investigate the consequences of the NATO bombing of Serbia, says that clinicians have recognized that these illnesses are more common, affect an increasingly younger population, and are more aggressive.

This was particularly pronounced between 2007 and 2012, especially when brain tumors were concerned.

"We know that massive pollution occurred in April 1999. Even the leader of UNEP, who was here at the time, said that it was an environmental disaster, of regional dimensions. That what they were doing was genocidal can be seen in the very fact they were shooting at all those targets that were on the hazard map. Facilities are placed on that map, which, if destroyed by some kind of explosion, lead to an ecological disaster. They did it deliberately. The intention was genocidal, they turned us into a testing ground," Grujicic said.

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