ITALY: An inquiry on vetrerans illnesses and depleted uranium
Italy is about to hold an Inquiry "on the cases of deaths and serious illnesses affecting the Italian personnel deployed in international missions of peace, on the storage conditions, and the possible usage of depleted uranium during military exercises on national territory". December 2004

Refusing military service - speech at Shannon airport
I come from Italy, it's my home but there are many things that are wrong with my country. And one is that every man, at the age of 18, or later if he goes to university, has to waste 1 year being trained in the army. He has to spend one year being trained to kill and slaughter other human beings. Every single man is paid by the State for a whole year to be trained as a soldier, as a killer. Now that's a big waste of time, money and resources. 8 March 2003

Working and not working for the army
An Italian man forced to do his military service describes his work: being used as a strike-breaker, being used to enforce a coup, licking officers' boots for a few days off, risking your life during exercises, getting wounded and maimed, inflicting yourself wounds to be able to go home, going to military prison if you are caught, suffering nervous breakdowns, attempting and committing suicide, 1995