Pristina, June 22 (Tanjug) - The heart and soul of Serbia - Kosovo and Metohija - are today, one year after the end of the aggression, not only reduced to ashes, char and the dreary assignment of tired and disoriented "missionaries of peace" from countries - members of the UN, along with militant, bloodthirsty separatists, is now slowly turning into a nuclear waste ground of those very states that left severe scars upon the face of this southern Serb province under the guise of fighting for "democracy" in this part of Europe.

For a several months now, quietly and in utmost hush-hush circumstances, convoys of transporters (so-called castors) filled with radioactive waste from around twenty German nuclear plants have been travelling slowly from Gorloben, where the waste is temporarily stored, to new, seemingly secure destinations - the mines in Kosovo and Metohija.

The alibi for this illegal and multiply dangerous transport is the military and civilian mission of the Security Council of the UN, whose vehicles and trademarks are being used to ship radioactive waste. In return, Germany is wholeheartedly helping half-crazed ethnic Albanian secessionists by supplying them with arms and training their terrorists and fundamentalists, who "conceal" themselves beneath seemingly peace-bearing uniforms of the so-called Kosovo Protection Corpse.

Obviously, the German government does not care that German soldiers and officers stationed in the south Serb province under wing of the UN mission, like a sort of test guinea pigs, are already suffering the consequences of the "Balkan War Syndrome" (sickness caused by the use of uranium-filled ammunition), let alone the fact that they will be made innocent victims of a veritable ecological catastrophe that is lurking unless this sort of export-import business - which is being carried out without the knowledge of the German part of the KFOR - is stopped.

The hypocrisy of the German government is doubtlessly also reflected in the fact that, in the past twenty-five years, that state has been crossed by more than seventeen hundred dangerous yet profitable radioactive cargoes, and that it has been uniformly kept a secret from the German public. With the slogan "the more, the better", German nuclear waste is mostly stored in poor and undeveloped countries.

Similar arrangements between the largest European makers and dealers in the murky business of exporting and storing radioactive waste - notably France and Germany - with the newly formed states on the territory of the ex Federal Republic Yugoslavia - such as Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia - already exist, but with the tacit agreement on the part of the countries' governments.

For example, the eminent British "Strategic Policy" monthly states in one of its analyses that Croatia today is the largest junkyard for medical radioactive waste in Europe, and that the waste is being systematically imported and dumped on the territories that had been inhabited by Serbs until recently, and that it has been going on since 1995.

The magazine states that the preparations for these illegal dealings were begun during the civil war in ex FR Yugoslavia, while the UN embargo on buying weapons was still active, when France and Germany used their humanitarian and other international missions to help the Croat and Moslem governments in Bosnia and Herzegovina to smuggle arms and other military equipment.

The Slovenian Delo magazine published the datum that the European nuclear lobby had paid Austrian minister Aloise Mock more than two million dollars to demand, without accepting any compromises, an international recognition of the illegal secession of Slovenia and Croatia all the way back in the early nineties. So, the lobbying of powerful political and financial circles for the breaking up of ex Yugoslavia and the creation of new states on its territory was, among other things, the lobbying for the creation of new nuclear junkyards.

Experts claim that there are 440 nuclear plants operating in the world today, and that they are forced to - guarding the safety of their own population - store more than four hundred tons of nuclear waste a year, and it is estimated that the amount will have augmented at least fifty times by 2020.

The lawlessness and hypocrisy of the industrially and technologically powerful-yet-unscrupulous is once again (and surely not for the last time) endangering the survival of those who are not.