Serbia marks 14th anniversary of NATO bombing

From Madrid (Spain), today I would like to send to all citizens of Serbia a heartfelt remembrance and best wishes for the future of your country. I would also say, like Spanish, which I regret very much that Spanish troops participated in the aggression against your country.

Best regards.

Javier.

Terrorists called Kosovo Liberation Army started the war and police wanted to stop it. As in every war crimes happened on both sides, in Kosovo it was act of individuals in police, who need to correspond in court. Aim of Serbian police was to save peace and neutralize terrorist who often were hidden in civil areas and wanted to show that they are innocent civilians. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TERRORIST ARE BAD GUYS IN AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ AND GOOD IN KOSOVO...

At the end I want to say that after NATO bombing 250.000 Serbs went from Kosovo, 2.500 Serbs and non-Albanians missing.Even today every few days Serbs were beaten, killed, graves and churches demaged every few day. No one answers or is convicted for crimes.
NATO operation in 1999 called paradoxically the Angel of Mercy brought all this to the Serbs.
THAT is PEACE.

14 years later and Kosovo is still a horrible place to go to with the lowest standard of living in Europe. Albanians don't need Serbs to make their lives miserable.

Out of the 2500 people that were killed, only 700 were soldiers. The rest all civilians. That's truth and justice for ya..

If this was right or wrong is not for me to decide. But, it's pretty darn impressive to last a relentless bombardment by the worlds most powerful military allians for 79 days! Don't know many other countries that would. Respect!

R.I.P to the victims.

Milosevic should have done this n 1992 instead of 1998 then he would have succeeded!

I say an eye for an eye tooth for a tooth!

How many Serbs were ethnically cleansed and killed by albanians in kosovo since 1879-1990?

And don't forget 200.000 Albania came as Colonists from Albania when Italy occupied Kosovo...

That means that those people chose to live in Yugoslavia or was that always the plan to ethnically cleanse Serbs of there own land?

I do not agree with this land theft and one day when the time is right everything will fall in to place for Serbia that is.

P.S. As for NATO they will get what they deserve now or in the afterlife (laws of Karma).

Of course the primitive hyenas will come on here and say how great of a day this is. But if it confirms one thing, its that it took the strongest military alliance on the planet to stop the Serbs. The collective efforts of Albanian, Croatian and Bosnian Muslim ultra-nationalists could not keep the Serbs down.

NATO bombed Serbia in 1999 and they simply will not do it again. NATO is not our biggest enemy, treasonous politicians in Serbia are. If Serbia can have a responsible gov't looks out for Serbia's national interests...our enemies are in a lot of trouble.

We bombed the wrong side. We put the wrong people in jail and gave a country to the wrong people. America remembers its long standing friendship with Serbia and the Serbian people for more than a century. In time we hope to rebuild that friendship and cooperation. Until that time arrives, we are deeply deeply sorry for what we did and for the mess we created.

I was in Pistina during the NATO - bombings in 1999. The most important thing is that Kosovo is now free of Serbian dictatorship! If it wasn't for NATO the entire Albanian population in Kosovo would have vanished so the people of Kosovo are very grateful to NATO, especially to the U.S.A!

Reading comments from the Albanian side shows how much they are brainwashed by USA and NATO. People, those countries are robbing you and exploit your resources and economy. Ignorance galore! Use your minds! Even if I don't care if this region if it will become independent or no. In fact, as a Serbian citizen, I really want my government to focus on SERBIA that they actually have control of and deal with it's citizens instead! As for Kosovo, I am not sure they will EVER become independent in terms of independence from US, NATO and others, with drug/human trafficking blooming, corruption sky-rocketing etc. I believe if EU, NATO and US could get away without any guilt and consequences they'd agree right away this was one of their biggest failures (alongside with Bosnia, Iraq etc.). They didn't help you dear Kosovars, it was their INTEREST! They don't give a damn about you, people!

KOSOVO IS SERBIA!!! FOREVER!!!

(Ardi Asllani, 24 March 2013 13:43)

Kosare? Well if you remember Kosare do you remember when A-10 bombed KLA positions and slaughtered your whole unit? Do you remember running away every time Yugoslav reinforcements arrived? NATO was bombing albanian refuges, houses, and you people care so much about your own that you never released data of number of killed people

"We will be forever grateful to NATO for the Liberation of Kosova! "
(Haitian, 24 March 2013 12:29)

See, dear Kosovarians, even Haitians know who was responsible for the 'Liberation of Kosova'. Some deluded Albanians still think it was the merit of their glorious KLA 'freedom fighters'

Milan, for all the "malheur" as the French call it you should blame Milosevic. I recall that shortly before the bombing the Russian PM went to see Slobo to warn him that if he is not changing his Kosovo policy the NATO will intervene. Slobo was fully detached of reality and declared laughing that the NATO will never dare to do it. The rest is history.

For all of 19 participating members of NATO I wish one day they also will have a same experiance...for the same reason....

yeah easy from the sky.
On the ground no chance !

coward and fake war.

Shameful really that someone would think, let alone comment that violence of any kind would bring any good to anyone...

@Jonna you are so funny.... O my god I pity you ...

The only thing why i hate America is because of its role against Serbia in the 99 by creating an Ottoman Islamic terrorist Jihadist province in southern Serbia that was Serbian territory for thousands of years.
KOSOVO IS NOT ONLY SERBIA BUT IS THE IDENTITY OF THE SERBIAN SLAVIC NATION,WE ALBANIANS ARE FORMER SERBS(ALBANIZE AND ISLAMIZE BY THE TURKS AND VATICAN),Wikipedia(battle of Kosovo 1389,Serbs of Kosovo,demographics of Kosovo),first Albanian book 1555 by an Catholic Vatican priest,then the so called Albanian fighter against the Turks Gjergj Kastrioti or George Kastriotovoitch was 100% Serbian Orthodox.
General Ratko Mladic HERO,George Bush-Blair-Clinton war criminals.

Labor, Employment and Social Policy Ministry’s State Secretary Negovan Stanković will lay a wreath to the monument to children killed in the NATO bombing in Tašmajdan Park."

The PM, the president or Vucic are feeling badly at this day. They will sent a very low servant for this occasion to show the NATO that they are not interested in this day. Its not so nice like all the endless handshakes with Thaci or the leaders of NATO-states. After doing so its only a little step to sell-off the Serbs in Kosovo. Berlin and Washington are more impportant as to take care for all the victims of the war. How these people in little jobs who were doing their work, following the orders from people like Dacic, are thinking today? Who in Serbia will do in future anything for hs country knowing that the enemies from yesterday are the biggest friends from today. Only the Serb people are disturbing the everlasting run for money and positions. What a country, what a menthality without dignity and felling of solidarity.

Thank you NATO for saving nearly 2 million souls in Kosovo from the Serbian regime. And you guys say whatever you want but Jonna is absolutely right.

Jonna, as you pointed out without NATO's humanitarian intervention there would be no Albanian in Kosovo today. For this reason one can say that a human catastrophe of immense scale was prevented and a warning message was sent to the whole world never ever try such ethnic cleansing in the future.

over 1 million Albanian were forced out of their homes. Yes NATO helped us get Kosova but Russia helped you get Vojvodina too. Thank you NATO!

Sorry

NATO has never disclosed its losses.

There is nothing to disclose, since NATO lost one plane ONLY, and the pilot was whisked under your nose by special ops forces in the hart of Serbia.

Ops, almost forgot to mention that NATO lost thousand of missiles ,in which case they found the proper place to dispose them with no coast at all. New version of missiles was coming out from factory, and everybody was saying US is running out of MX missiles. God bless US and NATO Allies.

We will be forever grateful to NATO for the Liberation of Kosova!

Serbs should be forever grateful to NATO also as it was the prelude for the overthrow of Milosevic!

@Haitian

And 200 000 non albanian refugees from Kosovo will be grateful for being homeless as a result of bombing.

At the end I want to say that after NATO bombing 250.000 Serbs went from Kosovo, 2.500 Serbs and non-Albanians missing.Even today every few days Serbs were beaten, killed, graves and churches demaged every few day. No one answers or is convicted for crimes.
NATO operation in 1999 called paradoxically the Angel of Mercy brought all this to the Serbs.
THAT is PEACE.
(milan, 24 March 2013 13:13)

By your calculation sounds very good for Serb brain washers, but lets turn to facts.

There was never 250G Serb in Kosova, only during the war in Croatia and Bosnia that thousands of Serbs came to settle in Kosova and eat with golden spoon as promised by Slobo.
Just 2 days ago your D/P said it that ; there are 150G Serbs in Kosova and that number sounds right. Give or take another few thousand that committed horrible crimes and will never return. That is about it.

Another thing about missing. Serb media today is giving the number of soldiers/police at about 1000, but that number is is more like several thousand. Only when Kosare was taken over by KLA, at least 100 serb soldiers were killed in the battle. This is only one spot, what about the rest of Kosova ???

It is a sad day when a people get bombed. Never should have happened. Should not happen today anywhere. Very very sad.

"14 years later and Kosovo is still a horrible place to go to with the lowest standard of living in Europe. Albanians don't need Serbs to make their lives miserable."
(Navi, 24 March 2013 15:20)

Well, the ruling clans and the leaders who became politicians and ministers have a decent life now, with fancy cars and villas, and without anyone interfering their drug business, and with additional access to donor money for themselves and their relatives and friends. So: Kosovo IS a success for them. Did anyone think the 'KLA freedom fighters' cared for improving the lives of the ordinary average citizens?

"apologies from America" Maybe you can speak in the name of American-serbs but please don't speak in the name of some 318 million Americans. It is more than pretentious, it is of bad taste.
(Joe, 24 March 2013 20:29)

You don't speak on behalf of them either. Once again, apologies to Serbia and the Serbian people. Please don't let "Joe" make you think 318 million Americans are against you. They are not. Every American whose ever been to Serbia comes back loving the country and its people and feels nothing but regret and humiliation for what their government did in 1999. Serbs love it when Americans come and want to know more about the country than what their media and racist policies tell them. "Joe" obviously is one of those Americans who only knows about the world through his TV.

Why are Serbs complaining still? What did they think will happen after attacking Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo?

"But, it's pretty darn impressive to last a relentless bombardment by the worlds most powerful military allians for 79 days! "
(From America, 24 March 2013 16:04)

Sorry, but decades ago, in WW2, during a single bombing night in a single city (Dresden), more people were killed than during this 'relentless bombing'. That's the difference between strategic bombing and a massive air raid.

for once the war was brought to your doorstep!!

Why NATO stop so soon?

"NATO.....they simply will not do it again". Ari, I agree. Using the military term "mission accomplished" there is no need to do it again.

This is an absolute abomination. Not the war but reading an article like this without once using the word 'genocide'. When people in civilized countries talk about World War II and deny the holocaust, they go to jail. This situation should be the same. You should be ashamed of yourself, and if you don't publish this, even more ashamed. Eastern Europe is doomed.

@Johnny,

We rather be anything to Americans then having anything to do with you guys or as they say the butchers of Balkans. Brainwashed or not we are 1000 times better now then we were ever before especially during 80' & 90'. We just love America mate and we rather be the 52nd state of America then having anything to do with you guys. Thank you NATO for your existence and God bless USA and Kosovo.

"apologies from America" Maybe you can speak in the name of American-serbs but please don't speak in the name of some 318 million Americans. It is more than pretentious, it is of bad taste.

I cannot believe how many Albos and other who ever they are Serb haters come on this site. Serbs never flown planes into buildings only the brothers of Albos and Bosnian Muslims who in fact did fight along side them. how many NATO troops had to die to fight Muslims in Afghanistan and IRAQ..? NATO sure knows how to choose their friends..

Excellent article. But perhaps there should be a similar article, it beeing the aniversity of the bombing and all, describing and numbering the deaths, destruction, expulsion etc. of the Albanian population, which far exceeds that of the Serbian people? This is after all why the bombing began. Or how about the apartheid system that opressed the Albanian majority during the early 90s making their lives unbearable? How about the tens of thousands of women who got raped? Thousands of children murdered? Hundred of thousands of us who were forced to leave our homes and escape to other countries where we yet again were second-class citizens?

But we are not Serbs, we do not matter, we did not suffer anything, we are not human, we deserve everything, correct? That is the racist mentality that caused our and your deaths, and that will be the mentality that will cause future wars and destruction.

We have learnt nothing!

A day for joy and celebration among the western imposed quisling regime and the "opposition", equally bought and paid for and of course our 1.800 western installed NGO´s, among them our infamous "Bganon" and some others here at the forum.

It was the day when we where "baptised and blessed with democracy", with a stench of radiation to it, by NATO atomic waste raining down on our heads that will continue to "bless" our children (even Bganon´s, what an ironic twist!) for an eternity. Previous year it was Libyas turn for joy and now it is soon Syrias.
indeed "Happy anniversary"....

The fact that THIS is what the comments section looks like (even in the age of the troll) fills my heart with sadness. The truth is that the entire Balkan region has been plagued by civil war and unrest for centuries, and every side has wronged and been wronged. This intense nationalism that we see of pro-Albanians and pro-Serbians pitted against each other just goes to prove that we've stopped killing each other but the hateful sentiment unfortunately remains. The point of this article is to commemorate CIVILIAN VICTIMS, regardless of the aggressors. These commemorations occur for EVERY side of this bloody and frankly, tiresome conflict and the fact that anybody could be grateful for innocent men, women and children dying FOR ANY REASON highlights why wars continue, even when we should have learnt our lesson. I don't care what your ethnic background is, thanking whatever aggressor for killing civilians just because it serves your cause is despicable and only proves your ignorance. You ever notice how most men returning from war refuse to speak of what they saw? That's because they can never make the ends justify the means. Oh, and finally, with the way we've all been running away, changing names, loyalties and countries for centuries, just to stay ahead of the next person trying to kill the group you belong to, there's probably NO WAY you can prove that your ancestors were what you are now more than 3 generations ago. Have fun hating what you (quite possibly) are.

"relentless bombardment.....for 79 days" Well, you seem to ignore the fact that in the person of French president Chirac you had a big friend and protector. After a short time he started to veto all meaningful targets. As a result the pilots started to unload on abandoned barns and similar useless targets just to return empty.

NATO has never disclosed its losses.


What loses??? One plane accidentally shot down , and the pilot whisked away in front of your eyes. LOL

moris, you should jump in mind at least 100 years to understand the military strategy of the modern countries of today. For them the highest value is the life of their troupes. To keep them possibly ALL alive - and still accomplish their military targets - they spend billions on modern hardware. Die uselessly and young to become a so-called national hero is not considered smart anymore. Accomplish the objectives sometimes from thousands of miles by operating the most modern instruments or flying very high is the smart thing. Gone are the days of gun fights in front of Western saloons that you can see in cowboy movies. Those are for entertaining.

apologies from America" Maybe you can speak in the name of American-serbs but please don't speak in the name of some 318 million Americans. It is more than pretentious, it is of bad taste.
(Joe, 24 March 2013 20:29)

Listen old hungarian useless immigrant.You are the last one who can give others lectures on behalf of whom they may appologize.There are a lot of honest americans who are ashamed of their goverments shameful actions.And you are anyway just an arrow cross fugitive who has nothing to do with americans.Just prepare your arrow cross uniform for the next week's meeting of Hungarian Nazi Veterans in Clevland.You will have opportunity to sing about your idol salasi and drink low quality palinka
with the other old hungarian nazis thugs.And bear in mind you and americans are two different things.So if you form an opinion do it inthe name of those ugly salasi boys and not all americans.

It's always a shame when civilians are targeted. This has happened many times in history. The worst example ever was when the two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, under the pretext of saving lives. Are soldier's lives equal to civilian lives? I think not. Hopefully, in the future, people will agree to not use violence. If violence must be used, it should only be targeted at the military. That actually can work. My thoughts go out to all the innocent people who lost their lives or were injured during those attacks.

Milosevic was a diplomatic failure, and as a result induced rather than avoided the bombing and succeeded in losing control of Kosovo.

Nationalist posters on this sight cannot see that all they do is compound that failure.

You cannot alienate a population, alienate most of the world, and then complain when everything turns against you.

Well, actually, you can complain, but that is about all you can do.

casualties and losses were nothing compared to what the serbian nationalist forces unleashed on croatia, bih and kosova. never forget serb atrocities upon its balkan neighbors!

Hay - no one here can apologize for Nato and America. The bombing did not occur because of American citizens or the Nato citizens. Since when can regular citizens of a country tell their government what to do? They cant. So who ever wants to hate Americans I guess that is their right - but in the end hate will get you nowhere and it is very small to hate people who had nothing to do with what their government did.

yeah easy from the sky.
On the ground no chance !

coward and fake war.
(moris, 24 March 2013 18:18)

Wrong moris,
2 Weeks before bombing stopped, the NATO ground troops were gathering around Serbia. And that is the moment when Slobo decided to use the white flag and surrender. You should be thankful for Slobo on using the flag of capitulation.

radek, I found your cheap shots very amusing. I was already called by many names, communist, Jew, etc but never an arrowhead. If I would be the latest I would be 95-100 years old. Considering all my current activities that would be truly extraordinary at that age. You seem to be from the Cleveland region, what I never had a chance to visit. As for palinka or rakia you can have it. I find it too unhealthy and low class drink. About my uselessness: I paid probably 10 times more taxes in the US than you or those old arrowheads you seem to know so well.

Damn only 79 days!!!! They should have double it, it would have made a great movie.

Well deserved; congrats losers.

Johnny, if US/EU "don't give a damn" about K-Albanians as you say why are you visibly so upset?

@Johnny,

We rather be anything to Americans then having anything to do with you guys or as they say the butchers of Balkans. Brainwashed or not we are 1000 times better now then we were ever before especially during 80' & 90'. We just love America mate and we rather be the 52nd state of America then having anything to do with you guys. Thank you NATO for your existence and God bless USA and Kosovo.

navi, can you tell me what would be the living standard in Kosovo today without the NATO intervention? Maybe a little bit higher because there would be no K-Albanian anymore and with additional new serbian settlers the reduced population of 3-400,000 people (entirely serb) would own everything. But for the K-Albanians of today - despite high unemployment - the situation is a win-win. So "don't cry for me Argentina".

Comm. Parrisson

are you still persisting with that story? yes Kosova now is not the best in the world, nor is it ever likely to be. however, it is still better than what it was when Serbia had control. OK? so give me this imperfect entity with a lot of social issues, to the one that i lived in in the early 90's to 99. this way at least, we don't have tanks and burning villages and columns upon columns of destitute people. maybe you prefer to see those things, i on the other hand don't

US army and EU army did a very good thing of saving life of the innocent people in Kosovo.If US was wrong by helping albanians, and serbians were "right"does it mean that serbians were right for all the wars and crimes which they caused which in former Yougoslavia since 1990 or maybe you wanna say that all popullation of former YU was ass hole and serbians are angels?Come on open better your eyes,nobody shouldn't try to take the rights of the others.Crime has to stop..Americans should be very proud of helping the world to stand on the right way.God bless US!!!

Ex-Albanian Serbophile,ZIVELA SRBIJA

move to Serbia dude. go back to your apparent historical roots. you won't be missed don't worry

@Joe:
I am not upset. As I said, I don't care if Kosovo will become independent or not. All I want is that people down there, Albanians, Serbs, Turks, Roma, can live a descent life and be able to use their minds. And they don't have it. Hate speech, teaching people to hate non-Albanians is so obvious, cos that is a huge wind in the back of those guys in Priština. I work for a peace network and we have an office in Kosovo. I am not a Serb, I am a minority in Serbia, living in Vojvodina. All I can tell you is if there is a mutual respect between the majority and minority it can work very well. There is no such thing down there. You want a 100% Albanian country (and Priština doesn't choose tools to accomplish that goal). They want to be independent, yet they are guinea pigs of other countries.
@Mendo
You don't have to have anything to do with Serbia. That's what you're fighting for, I understand. You fight for independence. But reading your comments make me believe something is wrong with your beliefs! They don't NEED you, they need your land, resources and location! And don't you talk especially about the '80. That was the period when all the factories, power plants, mines opened for you and the people by the old country. The same things you are selling now to those I mentioned earlier (that was their idea, their interest, you remember what I said earlier). You could travel wherever, whenever. Can you get out of your ghetto now?
USE YOUR MINDS PEOPLE!

radek, your reaction is pretty much that of an envious little guy of the Mid-West stuck in his limited social "milieu". Trying to be in denial just shows your social hang-up toward those who made it.

I am sure you were either a member of the cleaning stuff or an elevator operator in some Wall Street building with less than 10 levels sice double digit buttons may have complicated your life .At least these are the kind of jobs which match your "highly educated" intellectual level.
(radek, 25 March 2013 17:05)

Actually I think Joe the hungarian was a shoe shiner on Wall street. He has the right personality and level of intellect for this job, and he could talk to his customers in 'many' different languages while polishing their feet shiny clean.

Serbs should remember .. Back in the 90's your military arsenal was financed by YU... ie: Slovenians, Macedonians, Slovenians, Bosnians, Montenegrins and Croatians. Within a 'self funded model' it will never have a military the neighbors need to worry about again. Thank god.

Apologies from America,
Of course you are a transplanted Serb if in America at all. We bombed the right side, but we underestimated the enemy. We thought that them just surrendering would fix the problem. We should have required an unconditional surrender before ending. You do not speak for the American people so reduce your comments to "I" and not "We".

About my uselessness: I paid probably 10 times more taxes in the US than you or those old arrowheads you seem to know so well.
(Joe, 25 March 2013 11:10)

Joe,

You must have been the greatest entertainer in the village comedy club back in Hungary.Firstly could you confirm your statement with some proof I mean do you know exactly the figures of my tax return?Secondly the sentence"I paid probably 10 times more taxes" is s o familiar:I have bumped into tons of uniportant good for nothing eastern european peasent immigrants similar to you who use this primitive pattern sentence in order to seem bigger than they are in reality.Internet is a great toy for these big size kindergarten kids like you to spread their cheap and amusing lies.The only snug is that most readers have IQ higher than 80 so only thing they can do is laugh at such statements.You may start fairy tales told to your kids or grandchildren using these sentance insted of once upon a time.THey may even belive your stories after all most probably they inherited some of your great "mental abilities".

radek, your reaction is pretty much that of an envious little guy of the Mid-West stuck in his limited social "milieu". Trying to be in denial just shows your social hang-up toward those who made it.
(Joe, 25 March 2013 17:39)

Dear loser Joe,

Those who really made it do not come here to brag about it.Your made up stories are as simple as your name although you should complement it with a letter K.I mean JO(K)E.Because that is what you are.A big joke nothing more.

@Apologies from America:

After reading your comments and just so that you know I'm in no mood to sympathize with Americans that MIGHT be supportive of Serb war criminals,come to think of it,I don't even desire friendships nor doing special or "truly" special things for Americans who might be supportive of Serb war criminals (even if I'm not saying that you support Serb war criminals which I hope you're not doing) Also don't take my statement personally simply because even if some of my fellow Canadians sympathize with Serb war criminals they too are not to receive my sympathy just like they as well I choose not to form friendships with nor do special or "truly" special things for them either.

"But, it's pretty darn impressive to last a relentless bombardment by the worlds most powerful military allians for 79 days! "
(From America, 24 March 2013 16:04)

Guedaffi's army resisted far more days and above all intensity of bombing.

Talebans are much much heavier bombed for 10 years now and are still there. Will you extend your admiration to them as well???

in 1999 Serbia got way way less then what she really deserved.

@Johnny,

Yes John where did that money came from for building those power plants and factories and so many other good things in Kosovo from the old country and still Kosovo was the poorest part of Yugoslavia, in fact they only misused the wealth of Kosovo and build Belgrade so spear me the goodwill of Serbs building factories and such. Finally yes people are free to bid for anything that's up for privatisation including you and Serbs if they want to, so I see nothing wrong with that. I'm all up for moving on and be good neighbours with Serbs but never in one country.

Cheers

radek, I see your ego is badly bruised. You must be an American of first or second generation, who contrarily to their blue collar parents and grand-parents made it to a college (sometimes just a community college). So you made it to an office job and your relatives were bragging about.."nash radek...etc". Anyway what I just described was the norm among immigrants of Eastern_Europe and the Balkan...they progressed slowly from one generation to the next. They were hard workers and respected. I greatly respect them too. But I don't fall into this category of the masses. Through very lucky circumstances I made most of my schooling in some of the best schools in Western Europe and started to work on Wall Street shortly after. Does Wall Street and those high salaries and bonuses mean something to you? Did you hear about it?

(Joe, 25 March 2013 16:10)

Wow I am so impressed.Reading your comments and the "wisdom" hidden in them I am sure you were either a member of the cleaning stuff or an elevator operator in some Wall Street building with less than 10 levels sice double digit buttons may have complicated your life .At least these are the kind of jobs which match your "highly educated" intellectual level.

that's u'r comments??

greetings from Serbia..

But if it confirms one thing, its that it took the strongest military alliance on the planet to stop the Serbs.


Interesting comment, given that it took the JNA 3 months to take a poorly defended Vukovar. I can only imagine any force properly armed would have meant defeat for the JNA.

Johnny, you can consider yourself very lucky for finding a job by a Western peace organization. I am sure they pay you extremely well compared to scarce jobs in Vojvodina. By the way what are you doing beside "observing" ? "Observing" will not help the poor there in any way specially if you are biased, what is obvious in your comment. You claim to be a minority in Vojvodina, most likely a Slovak or a Ruthanian. Since you are considered there as a slavic brother you don't suffer any discrimination and are treated like a Serb.

(Roger7, 25 March 2013 19:38)

Gated community.In his case I would rather call it zoo park.Litttle people like Joe who want to seem great are quite tragicomic.You can find these kind of creatures in Gogol's works.However if you have one of them on the net it is even more entertaining.

radek, what happened? You got caught in your own little game? You started on the high horse calling me a "useless" immigrant. It is only at that point that I pointed out my superiority by paying 10 times more taxes. That was an unexpected shock for you. You realized that you miscalculated, that you are not in the presence of a little guy of your neighborhood. In your embarrassment you tried to play denial. Now you are accusing me of bragging. Do you realize how childish you behave? Learn from your stupide mistake. Next time think twice before you start to call somebody "useless" because it can well be that you are just a little guy compared to him.

@Johnny,

Mr as a Hungarian (you never lived or maybe never been to Kosovo) don't tell me how it was under Serbian regime and how it's now to live in the western "regime" because I used to live there under your beloved ruler Milosevic and I go now twice a year for weeks and I can see the difference. Bidding is going on and I know a relative from diaspora who bid for a company back home and took it over. I'm telling you Johnny it's 1000 times better then it ever was and I don't want to go into long stories here but I know first hand how it was to live in Kosovo cos I'm from there.

Cheers

roger7, as I see you are still full of hang-up just like 2 years ago. Still it is touching to see that you are running at the rescue of your little brother radek, who badly miscalculated. See my response to him. And one advise: if you are full of hang-up and can't endure the reality don't provoke people. Whenever I wrote about me it was always in response of a belittling remark. The last I need is to brag in front of some unknown little guys of the Mid-West.

Joe,

Your English language skills have diminished since your retirement.

Today, on 14th anniversary of bombing of Radio Television buiding in Belgrade I wanted to see if you publshed the picture of the ruins of the building in Aberdarova Street were 16 of your colleagues, journalist were killed.
Of course not. This was not worth mentioning. You showed several pictures of destroyed buildings but no pictures of TV Tower on Avala and RTS building.
I guess you have to be careful not to hurt the feelings of you financiers.
Shame on you.
Misha Jovanovic, San Diego, California

USA did it and USA made nowadays Kosovo. So, let's say:Kosovo is American land. While Serbia doesn't belong to Russia. But, Great Serbia is destroyed and Great Albania will be destroyed. On the Balkan there is only Great Turkey!

radek,

Old Joe, the hungarian immigrant, has been around B92 for a long time.

Pathetic that Joe the immigrant feels the need to flaunt his supposed wealth, education and his false sense of social superiority in order to receive the validation he needs to feel important.

He'll soon boast about his home in the gated community, his son the lawyer, how he knows all of the French and Germans, his knowledge of languages ... it goes on and on like an old broken record. His need for validation (if he even exists) is obvious and pathetic.

People like immigrant Joe put others down in order to feel better about themselves. A person who has dignity and self-respect does not behave like Joe the immigrant.

@Joe
Heh, let me disappoint you - I don't receive any money/fees for any of the projects we are doing. It is a voluntary network founded just a year after the first world war as an answer on all the hatred and nationalism that was blooming back then. We are not observing, in fact our projects are aimed at raising (international) mobility in Kosovo and cooperation between local communities and international volunteers and work with minorities (not Serbs) there and enabling them to experience things they can't due to the lack of mobility and ongoing threats from the Albanian majority. Oh ye, I'm not done with disappointing you, I am not a Slovene, or anything that you are looking for to prove my connection to Serbs. I am Hungarian. Again, so obvious from your comments that you are full of prejudices and all those SIDES you are taking. And the whole concept that made this world going MAD! People support each other in order to stand for people's rights and justice not INTERESTS!
@Mendo
So now when Germany, US and whoever will missuse your "resources" that will be just great, right? As I said, something is so wrong with you! And don't be fooled, there is no BIDDING involved in those privatisations.

Since you questioned my nationality etc. Can you please prove me wrong - I have a feeling that none of you (or at least one of you) doesn't even live in Kosovo. Do you?

Johnny, there are a lot of contradictions in your post. Since my comment will not be visible tomorrow I will be very bref. I am not sure if you will get a chance to read it. Anyway I had a good lough when I saw that you try to pass for a Hungarian. Sure, sure, I believe in Santa Claus. If you would be a Hungarian from Vojvodina you would not try to make believe that minorities live there in the greatest harmony and equality.

@Joe
Ahaha, you don't trust me I'm Hungarian?! Well, I am sorry there is nothing I can do to prove you this. I can sing the anthem to the computer, but you won't hear it. Jeez! It's not the greatest, far from that. But comparing to other countries in the EU, not mentioning Kosovo, there is no threat of speaking my language on the bus, attending kindergarten, elementary, high school and UNIVERSITY in my language. And more. But apparently there is no way I can handle your way of understanding my messages and arguments. So I'll just get back to my first message. Brainwash.
@Mendo
Boom - I've been to Kosovo and I am going there in May probably again! I know I had to speak English and present myself as Hungarian, unless someone else turned to me in Serbian and I made sure that's OK. Milošević is not my beloved, in fact I wish we did the same Romania did with their "beloved" leader in 1989. They took our autonomy away, too, and I do miss it, even if we have some fractions of autonomy back again. As I thought, you don't live in Kosovo and I am fed up with such patriots (there are thousands of such Serbian patriots, Croatian etc. all around the world), who are in the first lines when it comes to showing their love towards their homeland. Well, screw that, why don't you all come to these beloved countries and live here. Why are you a bigger Albanian than that guy living in Kosovo, or how come someone in Sydney is a bigger Serb than me, living here!

(Kosovo) it's 1000 times better then it ever was and I don't want to go into long stories here but I know first hand how it was to live in Kosovo cos I'm from there.
(Mendo, 25 March 2013 23:58)

Mendo, if Kosovo is the shiny little land you're sketching here, can you explain why the heck Kosovars are still swarming into Italy and the rest of Europe?

I was in Pistina during the NATO - bombings in 1999. The most important thing is that Kosovo is now free of Serbian dictatorship! If it wasn't for NATO the entire Albanian population in Kosovo would have vanished so the people of Kosovo are very grateful to NATO, especially to the U.S.A!

We will be forever grateful to NATO for the Liberation of Kosova!

Serbs should be forever grateful to NATO also as it was the prelude for the overthrow of Milosevic!

over 1 million Albanian were forced out of their homes. Yes NATO helped us get Kosova but Russia helped you get Vojvodina too. Thank you NATO!

Thank you NATO for saving nearly 2 million souls in Kosovo from the Serbian regime. And you guys say whatever you want but Jonna is absolutely right.

NATO has never disclosed its losses.

There is nothing to disclose, since NATO lost one plane ONLY, and the pilot was whisked under your nose by special ops forces in the hart of Serbia.

Ops, almost forgot to mention that NATO lost thousand of missiles ,in which case they found the proper place to dispose them with no coast at all. New version of missiles was coming out from factory, and everybody was saying US is running out of MX missiles. God bless US and NATO Allies.

At the end I want to say that after NATO bombing 250.000 Serbs went from Kosovo, 2.500 Serbs and non-Albanians missing.Even today every few days Serbs were beaten, killed, graves and churches demaged every few day. No one answers or is convicted for crimes.
NATO operation in 1999 called paradoxically the Angel of Mercy brought all this to the Serbs.
THAT is PEACE.
(milan, 24 March 2013 13:13)

By your calculation sounds very good for Serb brain washers, but lets turn to facts.

There was never 250G Serb in Kosova, only during the war in Croatia and Bosnia that thousands of Serbs came to settle in Kosova and eat with golden spoon as promised by Slobo.
Just 2 days ago your D/P said it that ; there are 150G Serbs in Kosova and that number sounds right. Give or take another few thousand that committed horrible crimes and will never return. That is about it.

Another thing about missing. Serb media today is giving the number of soldiers/police at about 1000, but that number is is more like several thousand. Only when Kosare was taken over by KLA, at least 100 serb soldiers were killed in the battle. This is only one spot, what about the rest of Kosova ???

@Johnny,

We rather be anything to Americans then having anything to do with you guys or as they say the butchers of Balkans. Brainwashed or not we are 1000 times better now then we were ever before especially during 80' & 90'. We just love America mate and we rather be the 52nd state of America then having anything to do with you guys. Thank you NATO for your existence and God bless USA and Kosovo.

Jonna, as you pointed out without NATO's humanitarian intervention there would be no Albanian in Kosovo today. For this reason one can say that a human catastrophe of immense scale was prevented and a warning message was sent to the whole world never ever try such ethnic cleansing in the future.

Why are Serbs complaining still? What did they think will happen after attacking Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo?

Why NATO stop so soon?

Of course the primitive hyenas will come on here and say how great of a day this is. But if it confirms one thing, its that it took the strongest military alliance on the planet to stop the Serbs. The collective efforts of Albanian, Croatian and Bosnian Muslim ultra-nationalists could not keep the Serbs down.

NATO bombed Serbia in 1999 and they simply will not do it again. NATO is not our biggest enemy, treasonous politicians in Serbia are. If Serbia can have a responsible gov't looks out for Serbia's national interests...our enemies are in a lot of trouble.

@Johnny,

We rather be anything to Americans then having anything to do with you guys or as they say the butchers of Balkans. Brainwashed or not we are 1000 times better now then we were ever before especially during 80' & 90'. We just love America mate and we rather be the 52nd state of America then having anything to do with you guys. Thank you NATO for your existence and God bless USA and Kosovo.

Milosevic should have done this n 1992 instead of 1998 then he would have succeeded!

I say an eye for an eye tooth for a tooth!

How many Serbs were ethnically cleansed and killed by albanians in kosovo since 1879-1990?

And don't forget 200.000 Albania came as Colonists from Albania when Italy occupied Kosovo...

That means that those people chose to live in Yugoslavia or was that always the plan to ethnically cleanse Serbs of there own land?

I do not agree with this land theft and one day when the time is right everything will fall in to place for Serbia that is.

P.S. As for NATO they will get what they deserve now or in the afterlife (laws of Karma).

casualties and losses were nothing compared to what the serbian nationalist forces unleashed on croatia, bih and kosova. never forget serb atrocities upon its balkan neighbors!

Damn only 79 days!!!! They should have double it, it would have made a great movie.

Well deserved; congrats losers.

Terrorists called Kosovo Liberation Army started the war and police wanted to stop it. As in every war crimes happened on both sides, in Kosovo it was act of individuals in police, who need to correspond in court. Aim of Serbian police was to save peace and neutralize terrorist who often were hidden in civil areas and wanted to show that they are innocent civilians. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TERRORIST ARE BAD GUYS IN AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ AND GOOD IN KOSOVO...

At the end I want to say that after NATO bombing 250.000 Serbs went from Kosovo, 2.500 Serbs and non-Albanians missing.Even today every few days Serbs were beaten, killed, graves and churches demaged every few day. No one answers or is convicted for crimes.
NATO operation in 1999 called paradoxically the Angel of Mercy brought all this to the Serbs.
THAT is PEACE.

"apologies from America" Maybe you can speak in the name of American-serbs but please don't speak in the name of some 318 million Americans. It is more than pretentious, it is of bad taste.

"NATO.....they simply will not do it again". Ari, I agree. Using the military term "mission accomplished" there is no need to do it again.

From Madrid (Spain), today I would like to send to all citizens of Serbia a heartfelt remembrance and best wishes for the future of your country. I would also say, like Spanish, which I regret very much that Spanish troops participated in the aggression against your country.

Best regards.

Javier.

Milan, for all the "malheur" as the French call it you should blame Milosevic. I recall that shortly before the bombing the Russian PM went to see Slobo to warn him that if he is not changing his Kosovo policy the NATO will intervene. Slobo was fully detached of reality and declared laughing that the NATO will never dare to do it. The rest is history.

Johnny, if US/EU "don't give a damn" about K-Albanians as you say why are you visibly so upset?

yeah easy from the sky.
On the ground no chance !

coward and fake war.
(moris, 24 March 2013 18:18)

Wrong moris,
2 Weeks before bombing stopped, the NATO ground troops were gathering around Serbia. And that is the moment when Slobo decided to use the white flag and surrender. You should be thankful for Slobo on using the flag of capitulation.

NATO has never disclosed its losses.


What loses??? One plane accidentally shot down , and the pilot whisked away in front of your eyes. LOL

14 years later and Kosovo is still a horrible place to go to with the lowest standard of living in Europe. Albanians don't need Serbs to make their lives miserable.

Serbs should remember .. Back in the 90's your military arsenal was financed by YU... ie: Slovenians, Macedonians, Slovenians, Bosnians, Montenegrins and Croatians. Within a 'self funded model' it will never have a military the neighbors need to worry about again. Thank god.

@Jonna you are so funny.... O my god I pity you ...

for once the war was brought to your doorstep!!

"relentless bombardment.....for 79 days" Well, you seem to ignore the fact that in the person of French president Chirac you had a big friend and protector. After a short time he started to veto all meaningful targets. As a result the pilots started to unload on abandoned barns and similar useless targets just to return empty.

We bombed the wrong side. We put the wrong people in jail and gave a country to the wrong people. America remembers its long standing friendship with Serbia and the Serbian people for more than a century. In time we hope to rebuild that friendship and cooperation. Until that time arrives, we are deeply deeply sorry for what we did and for the mess we created.

"But, it's pretty darn impressive to last a relentless bombardment by the worlds most powerful military allians for 79 days! "
(From America, 24 March 2013 16:04)

Guedaffi's army resisted far more days and above all intensity of bombing.

Talebans are much much heavier bombed for 10 years now and are still there. Will you extend your admiration to them as well???

in 1999 Serbia got way way less then what she really deserved.

Out of the 2500 people that were killed, only 700 were soldiers. The rest all civilians. That's truth and justice for ya..

If this was right or wrong is not for me to decide. But, it's pretty darn impressive to last a relentless bombardment by the worlds most powerful military allians for 79 days! Don't know many other countries that would. Respect!

R.I.P to the victims.

This is an absolute abomination. Not the war but reading an article like this without once using the word 'genocide'. When people in civilized countries talk about World War II and deny the holocaust, they go to jail. This situation should be the same. You should be ashamed of yourself, and if you don't publish this, even more ashamed. Eastern Europe is doomed.

Excellent article. But perhaps there should be a similar article, it beeing the aniversity of the bombing and all, describing and numbering the deaths, destruction, expulsion etc. of the Albanian population, which far exceeds that of the Serbian people? This is after all why the bombing began. Or how about the apartheid system that opressed the Albanian majority during the early 90s making their lives unbearable? How about the tens of thousands of women who got raped? Thousands of children murdered? Hundred of thousands of us who were forced to leave our homes and escape to other countries where we yet again were second-class citizens?

But we are not Serbs, we do not matter, we did not suffer anything, we are not human, we deserve everything, correct? That is the racist mentality that caused our and your deaths, and that will be the mentality that will cause future wars and destruction.

We have learnt nothing!

US army and EU army did a very good thing of saving life of the innocent people in Kosovo.If US was wrong by helping albanians, and serbians were "right"does it mean that serbians were right for all the wars and crimes which they caused which in former Yougoslavia since 1990 or maybe you wanna say that all popullation of former YU was ass hole and serbians are angels?Come on open better your eyes,nobody shouldn't try to take the rights of the others.Crime has to stop..Americans should be very proud of helping the world to stand on the right way.God bless US!!!

Reading comments from the Albanian side shows how much they are brainwashed by USA and NATO. People, those countries are robbing you and exploit your resources and economy. Ignorance galore! Use your minds! Even if I don't care if this region if it will become independent or no. In fact, as a Serbian citizen, I really want my government to focus on SERBIA that they actually have control of and deal with it's citizens instead! As for Kosovo, I am not sure they will EVER become independent in terms of independence from US, NATO and others, with drug/human trafficking blooming, corruption sky-rocketing etc. I believe if EU, NATO and US could get away without any guilt and consequences they'd agree right away this was one of their biggest failures (alongside with Bosnia, Iraq etc.). They didn't help you dear Kosovars, it was their INTEREST! They don't give a damn about you, people!

USA did it and USA made nowadays Kosovo. So, let's say:Kosovo is American land. While Serbia doesn't belong to Russia. But, Great Serbia is destroyed and Great Albania will be destroyed. On the Balkan there is only Great Turkey!

Labor, Employment and Social Policy Ministry’s State Secretary Negovan Stanković will lay a wreath to the monument to children killed in the NATO bombing in Tašmajdan Park."

The PM, the president or Vucic are feeling badly at this day. They will sent a very low servant for this occasion to show the NATO that they are not interested in this day. Its not so nice like all the endless handshakes with Thaci or the leaders of NATO-states. After doing so its only a little step to sell-off the Serbs in Kosovo. Berlin and Washington are more impportant as to take care for all the victims of the war. How these people in little jobs who were doing their work, following the orders from people like Dacic, are thinking today? Who in Serbia will do in future anything for hs country knowing that the enemies from yesterday are the biggest friends from today. Only the Serb people are disturbing the everlasting run for money and positions. What a country, what a menthality without dignity and felling of solidarity.

@Haitian

And 200 000 non albanian refugees from Kosovo will be grateful for being homeless as a result of bombing.

navi, can you tell me what would be the living standard in Kosovo today without the NATO intervention? Maybe a little bit higher because there would be no K-Albanian anymore and with additional new serbian settlers the reduced population of 3-400,000 people (entirely serb) would own everything. But for the K-Albanians of today - despite high unemployment - the situation is a win-win. So "don't cry for me Argentina".

(Ardi Asllani, 24 March 2013 13:43)

Kosare? Well if you remember Kosare do you remember when A-10 bombed KLA positions and slaughtered your whole unit? Do you remember running away every time Yugoslav reinforcements arrived? NATO was bombing albanian refuges, houses, and you people care so much about your own that you never released data of number of killed people

Comm. Parrisson

are you still persisting with that story? yes Kosova now is not the best in the world, nor is it ever likely to be. however, it is still better than what it was when Serbia had control. OK? so give me this imperfect entity with a lot of social issues, to the one that i lived in in the early 90's to 99. this way at least, we don't have tanks and burning villages and columns upon columns of destitute people. maybe you prefer to see those things, i on the other hand don't

KOSOVO IS SERBIA!!! FOREVER!!!

The only thing why i hate America is because of its role against Serbia in the 99 by creating an Ottoman Islamic terrorist Jihadist province in southern Serbia that was Serbian territory for thousands of years.
KOSOVO IS NOT ONLY SERBIA BUT IS THE IDENTITY OF THE SERBIAN SLAVIC NATION,WE ALBANIANS ARE FORMER SERBS(ALBANIZE AND ISLAMIZE BY THE TURKS AND VATICAN),Wikipedia(battle of Kosovo 1389,Serbs of Kosovo,demographics of Kosovo),first Albanian book 1555 by an Catholic Vatican priest,then the so called Albanian fighter against the Turks Gjergj Kastrioti or George Kastriotovoitch was 100% Serbian Orthodox.
General Ratko Mladic HERO,George Bush-Blair-Clinton war criminals.

Ex-Albanian Serbophile,ZIVELA SRBIJA

move to Serbia dude. go back to your apparent historical roots. you won't be missed don't worry

Apologies from America,
Of course you are a transplanted Serb if in America at all. We bombed the right side, but we underestimated the enemy. We thought that them just surrendering would fix the problem. We should have required an unconditional surrender before ending. You do not speak for the American people so reduce your comments to "I" and not "We".

Sorry

Shameful really that someone would think, let alone comment that violence of any kind would bring any good to anyone...

For all of 19 participating members of NATO I wish one day they also will have a same experiance...for the same reason....

@Apologies from America:

After reading your comments and just so that you know I'm in no mood to sympathize with Americans that MIGHT be supportive of Serb war criminals,come to think of it,I don't even desire friendships nor doing special or "truly" special things for Americans who might be supportive of Serb war criminals (even if I'm not saying that you support Serb war criminals which I hope you're not doing) Also don't take my statement personally simply because even if some of my fellow Canadians sympathize with Serb war criminals they too are not to receive my sympathy just like they as well I choose not to form friendships with nor do special or "truly" special things for them either.

"But, it's pretty darn impressive to last a relentless bombardment by the worlds most powerful military allians for 79 days! "
(From America, 24 March 2013 16:04)

Sorry, but decades ago, in WW2, during a single bombing night in a single city (Dresden), more people were killed than during this 'relentless bombing'. That's the difference between strategic bombing and a massive air raid.

apologies from America" Maybe you can speak in the name of American-serbs but please don't speak in the name of some 318 million Americans. It is more than pretentious, it is of bad taste.
(Joe, 24 March 2013 20:29)

Listen old hungarian useless immigrant.You are the last one who can give others lectures on behalf of whom they may appologize.There are a lot of honest americans who are ashamed of their goverments shameful actions.And you are anyway just an arrow cross fugitive who has nothing to do with americans.Just prepare your arrow cross uniform for the next week's meeting of Hungarian Nazi Veterans in Clevland.You will have opportunity to sing about your idol salasi and drink low quality palinka
with the other old hungarian nazis thugs.And bear in mind you and americans are two different things.So if you form an opinion do it inthe name of those ugly salasi boys and not all americans.

yeah easy from the sky.
On the ground no chance !

coward and fake war.

It is a sad day when a people get bombed. Never should have happened. Should not happen today anywhere. Very very sad.

I cannot believe how many Albos and other who ever they are Serb haters come on this site. Serbs never flown planes into buildings only the brothers of Albos and Bosnian Muslims who in fact did fight along side them. how many NATO troops had to die to fight Muslims in Afghanistan and IRAQ..? NATO sure knows how to choose their friends..

@Johnny,

Yes John where did that money came from for building those power plants and factories and so many other good things in Kosovo from the old country and still Kosovo was the poorest part of Yugoslavia, in fact they only misused the wealth of Kosovo and build Belgrade so spear me the goodwill of Serbs building factories and such. Finally yes people are free to bid for anything that's up for privatisation including you and Serbs if they want to, so I see nothing wrong with that. I'm all up for moving on and be good neighbours with Serbs but never in one country.

Cheers

(Joe, 25 March 2013 16:10)

Wow I am so impressed.Reading your comments and the "wisdom" hidden in them I am sure you were either a member of the cleaning stuff or an elevator operator in some Wall Street building with less than 10 levels sice double digit buttons may have complicated your life .At least these are the kind of jobs which match your "highly educated" intellectual level.

radek,

Old Joe, the hungarian immigrant, has been around B92 for a long time.

Pathetic that Joe the immigrant feels the need to flaunt his supposed wealth, education and his false sense of social superiority in order to receive the validation he needs to feel important.

He'll soon boast about his home in the gated community, his son the lawyer, how he knows all of the French and Germans, his knowledge of languages ... it goes on and on like an old broken record. His need for validation (if he even exists) is obvious and pathetic.

People like immigrant Joe put others down in order to feel better about themselves. A person who has dignity and self-respect does not behave like Joe the immigrant.

"We will be forever grateful to NATO for the Liberation of Kosova! "
(Haitian, 24 March 2013 12:29)

See, dear Kosovarians, even Haitians know who was responsible for the 'Liberation of Kosova'. Some deluded Albanians still think it was the merit of their glorious KLA 'freedom fighters'

"14 years later and Kosovo is still a horrible place to go to with the lowest standard of living in Europe. Albanians don't need Serbs to make their lives miserable."
(Navi, 24 March 2013 15:20)

Well, the ruling clans and the leaders who became politicians and ministers have a decent life now, with fancy cars and villas, and without anyone interfering their drug business, and with additional access to donor money for themselves and their relatives and friends. So: Kosovo IS a success for them. Did anyone think the 'KLA freedom fighters' cared for improving the lives of the ordinary average citizens?

Johnny, you can consider yourself very lucky for finding a job by a Western peace organization. I am sure they pay you extremely well compared to scarce jobs in Vojvodina. By the way what are you doing beside "observing" ? "Observing" will not help the poor there in any way specially if you are biased, what is obvious in your comment. You claim to be a minority in Vojvodina, most likely a Slovak or a Ruthanian. Since you are considered there as a slavic brother you don't suffer any discrimination and are treated like a Serb.

radek, I see your ego is badly bruised. You must be an American of first or second generation, who contrarily to their blue collar parents and grand-parents made it to a college (sometimes just a community college). So you made it to an office job and your relatives were bragging about.."nash radek...etc". Anyway what I just described was the norm among immigrants of Eastern_Europe and the Balkan...they progressed slowly from one generation to the next. They were hard workers and respected. I greatly respect them too. But I don't fall into this category of the masses. Through very lucky circumstances I made most of my schooling in some of the best schools in Western Europe and started to work on Wall Street shortly after. Does Wall Street and those high salaries and bonuses mean something to you? Did you hear about it?

that's u'r comments??

greetings from Serbia..

moris, you should jump in mind at least 100 years to understand the military strategy of the modern countries of today. For them the highest value is the life of their troupes. To keep them possibly ALL alive - and still accomplish their military targets - they spend billions on modern hardware. Die uselessly and young to become a so-called national hero is not considered smart anymore. Accomplish the objectives sometimes from thousands of miles by operating the most modern instruments or flying very high is the smart thing. Gone are the days of gun fights in front of Western saloons that you can see in cowboy movies. Those are for entertaining.

Milosevic was a diplomatic failure, and as a result induced rather than avoided the bombing and succeeded in losing control of Kosovo.

Nationalist posters on this sight cannot see that all they do is compound that failure.

You cannot alienate a population, alienate most of the world, and then complain when everything turns against you.

Well, actually, you can complain, but that is about all you can do.

"apologies from America" Maybe you can speak in the name of American-serbs but please don't speak in the name of some 318 million Americans. It is more than pretentious, it is of bad taste.
(Joe, 24 March 2013 20:29)

You don't speak on behalf of them either. Once again, apologies to Serbia and the Serbian people. Please don't let "Joe" make you think 318 million Americans are against you. They are not. Every American whose ever been to Serbia comes back loving the country and its people and feels nothing but regret and humiliation for what their government did in 1999. Serbs love it when Americans come and want to know more about the country than what their media and racist policies tell them. "Joe" obviously is one of those Americans who only knows about the world through his TV.

radek, I found your cheap shots very amusing. I was already called by many names, communist, Jew, etc but never an arrowhead. If I would be the latest I would be 95-100 years old. Considering all my current activities that would be truly extraordinary at that age. You seem to be from the Cleveland region, what I never had a chance to visit. As for palinka or rakia you can have it. I find it too unhealthy and low class drink. About my uselessness: I paid probably 10 times more taxes in the US than you or those old arrowheads you seem to know so well.

The fact that THIS is what the comments section looks like (even in the age of the troll) fills my heart with sadness. The truth is that the entire Balkan region has been plagued by civil war and unrest for centuries, and every side has wronged and been wronged. This intense nationalism that we see of pro-Albanians and pro-Serbians pitted against each other just goes to prove that we've stopped killing each other but the hateful sentiment unfortunately remains. The point of this article is to commemorate CIVILIAN VICTIMS, regardless of the aggressors. These commemorations occur for EVERY side of this bloody and frankly, tiresome conflict and the fact that anybody could be grateful for innocent men, women and children dying FOR ANY REASON highlights why wars continue, even when we should have learnt our lesson. I don't care what your ethnic background is, thanking whatever aggressor for killing civilians just because it serves your cause is despicable and only proves your ignorance. You ever notice how most men returning from war refuse to speak of what they saw? That's because they can never make the ends justify the means. Oh, and finally, with the way we've all been running away, changing names, loyalties and countries for centuries, just to stay ahead of the next person trying to kill the group you belong to, there's probably NO WAY you can prove that your ancestors were what you are now more than 3 generations ago. Have fun hating what you (quite possibly) are.

radek, your reaction is pretty much that of an envious little guy of the Mid-West stuck in his limited social "milieu". Trying to be in denial just shows your social hang-up toward those who made it.
(Joe, 25 March 2013 17:39)

Dear loser Joe,

Those who really made it do not come here to brag about it.Your made up stories are as simple as your name although you should complement it with a letter K.I mean JO(K)E.Because that is what you are.A big joke nothing more.

Joe,

Your English language skills have diminished since your retirement.

@Joe:
I am not upset. As I said, I don't care if Kosovo will become independent or not. All I want is that people down there, Albanians, Serbs, Turks, Roma, can live a descent life and be able to use their minds. And they don't have it. Hate speech, teaching people to hate non-Albanians is so obvious, cos that is a huge wind in the back of those guys in Priština. I work for a peace network and we have an office in Kosovo. I am not a Serb, I am a minority in Serbia, living in Vojvodina. All I can tell you is if there is a mutual respect between the majority and minority it can work very well. There is no such thing down there. You want a 100% Albanian country (and Priština doesn't choose tools to accomplish that goal). They want to be independent, yet they are guinea pigs of other countries.
@Mendo
You don't have to have anything to do with Serbia. That's what you're fighting for, I understand. You fight for independence. But reading your comments make me believe something is wrong with your beliefs! They don't NEED you, they need your land, resources and location! And don't you talk especially about the '80. That was the period when all the factories, power plants, mines opened for you and the people by the old country. The same things you are selling now to those I mentioned earlier (that was their idea, their interest, you remember what I said earlier). You could travel wherever, whenever. Can you get out of your ghetto now?
USE YOUR MINDS PEOPLE!

About my uselessness: I paid probably 10 times more taxes in the US than you or those old arrowheads you seem to know so well.
(Joe, 25 March 2013 11:10)

Joe,

You must have been the greatest entertainer in the village comedy club back in Hungary.Firstly could you confirm your statement with some proof I mean do you know exactly the figures of my tax return?Secondly the sentence"I paid probably 10 times more taxes" is s o familiar:I have bumped into tons of uniportant good for nothing eastern european peasent immigrants similar to you who use this primitive pattern sentence in order to seem bigger than they are in reality.Internet is a great toy for these big size kindergarten kids like you to spread their cheap and amusing lies.The only snug is that most readers have IQ higher than 80 so only thing they can do is laugh at such statements.You may start fairy tales told to your kids or grandchildren using these sentance insted of once upon a time.THey may even belive your stories after all most probably they inherited some of your great "mental abilities".

But if it confirms one thing, its that it took the strongest military alliance on the planet to stop the Serbs.


Interesting comment, given that it took the JNA 3 months to take a poorly defended Vukovar. I can only imagine any force properly armed would have meant defeat for the JNA.

It's always a shame when civilians are targeted. This has happened many times in history. The worst example ever was when the two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, under the pretext of saving lives. Are soldier's lives equal to civilian lives? I think not. Hopefully, in the future, people will agree to not use violence. If violence must be used, it should only be targeted at the military. That actually can work. My thoughts go out to all the innocent people who lost their lives or were injured during those attacks.

A day for joy and celebration among the western imposed quisling regime and the "opposition", equally bought and paid for and of course our 1.800 western installed NGO´s, among them our infamous "Bganon" and some others here at the forum.

It was the day when we where "baptised and blessed with democracy", with a stench of radiation to it, by NATO atomic waste raining down on our heads that will continue to "bless" our children (even Bganon´s, what an ironic twist!) for an eternity. Previous year it was Libyas turn for joy and now it is soon Syrias.
indeed "Happy anniversary"....

(Roger7, 25 March 2013 19:38)

Gated community.In his case I would rather call it zoo park.Litttle people like Joe who want to seem great are quite tragicomic.You can find these kind of creatures in Gogol's works.However if you have one of them on the net it is even more entertaining.

@Joe
Heh, let me disappoint you - I don't receive any money/fees for any of the projects we are doing. It is a voluntary network founded just a year after the first world war as an answer on all the hatred and nationalism that was blooming back then. We are not observing, in fact our projects are aimed at raising (international) mobility in Kosovo and cooperation between local communities and international volunteers and work with minorities (not Serbs) there and enabling them to experience things they can't due to the lack of mobility and ongoing threats from the Albanian majority. Oh ye, I'm not done with disappointing you, I am not a Slovene, or anything that you are looking for to prove my connection to Serbs. I am Hungarian. Again, so obvious from your comments that you are full of prejudices and all those SIDES you are taking. And the whole concept that made this world going MAD! People support each other in order to stand for people's rights and justice not INTERESTS!
@Mendo
So now when Germany, US and whoever will missuse your "resources" that will be just great, right? As I said, something is so wrong with you! And don't be fooled, there is no BIDDING involved in those privatisations.

Since you questioned my nationality etc. Can you please prove me wrong - I have a feeling that none of you (or at least one of you) doesn't even live in Kosovo. Do you?

roger7, as I see you are still full of hang-up just like 2 years ago. Still it is touching to see that you are running at the rescue of your little brother radek, who badly miscalculated. See my response to him. And one advise: if you are full of hang-up and can't endure the reality don't provoke people. Whenever I wrote about me it was always in response of a belittling remark. The last I need is to brag in front of some unknown little guys of the Mid-West.

radek, your reaction is pretty much that of an envious little guy of the Mid-West stuck in his limited social "milieu". Trying to be in denial just shows your social hang-up toward those who made it.

@Johnny,

Mr as a Hungarian (you never lived or maybe never been to Kosovo) don't tell me how it was under Serbian regime and how it's now to live in the western "regime" because I used to live there under your beloved ruler Milosevic and I go now twice a year for weeks and I can see the difference. Bidding is going on and I know a relative from diaspora who bid for a company back home and took it over. I'm telling you Johnny it's 1000 times better then it ever was and I don't want to go into long stories here but I know first hand how it was to live in Kosovo cos I'm from there.

Cheers

I am sure you were either a member of the cleaning stuff or an elevator operator in some Wall Street building with less than 10 levels sice double digit buttons may have complicated your life .At least these are the kind of jobs which match your "highly educated" intellectual level.
(radek, 25 March 2013 17:05)

Actually I think Joe the hungarian was a shoe shiner on Wall street. He has the right personality and level of intellect for this job, and he could talk to his customers in 'many' different languages while polishing their feet shiny clean.

Hay - no one here can apologize for Nato and America. The bombing did not occur because of American citizens or the Nato citizens. Since when can regular citizens of a country tell their government what to do? They cant. So who ever wants to hate Americans I guess that is their right - but in the end hate will get you nowhere and it is very small to hate people who had nothing to do with what their government did.

radek, what happened? You got caught in your own little game? You started on the high horse calling me a "useless" immigrant. It is only at that point that I pointed out my superiority by paying 10 times more taxes. That was an unexpected shock for you. You realized that you miscalculated, that you are not in the presence of a little guy of your neighborhood. In your embarrassment you tried to play denial. Now you are accusing me of bragging. Do you realize how childish you behave? Learn from your stupide mistake. Next time think twice before you start to call somebody "useless" because it can well be that you are just a little guy compared to him.

Johnny, there are a lot of contradictions in your post. Since my comment will not be visible tomorrow I will be very bref. I am not sure if you will get a chance to read it. Anyway I had a good lough when I saw that you try to pass for a Hungarian. Sure, sure, I believe in Santa Claus. If you would be a Hungarian from Vojvodina you would not try to make believe that minorities live there in the greatest harmony and equality.

@Joe
Ahaha, you don't trust me I'm Hungarian?! Well, I am sorry there is nothing I can do to prove you this. I can sing the anthem to the computer, but you won't hear it. Jeez! It's not the greatest, far from that. But comparing to other countries in the EU, not mentioning Kosovo, there is no threat of speaking my language on the bus, attending kindergarten, elementary, high school and UNIVERSITY in my language. And more. But apparently there is no way I can handle your way of understanding my messages and arguments. So I'll just get back to my first message. Brainwash.
@Mendo
Boom - I've been to Kosovo and I am going there in May probably again! I know I had to speak English and present myself as Hungarian, unless someone else turned to me in Serbian and I made sure that's OK. Milošević is not my beloved, in fact I wish we did the same Romania did with their "beloved" leader in 1989. They took our autonomy away, too, and I do miss it, even if we have some fractions of autonomy back again. As I thought, you don't live in Kosovo and I am fed up with such patriots (there are thousands of such Serbian patriots, Croatian etc. all around the world), who are in the first lines when it comes to showing their love towards their homeland. Well, screw that, why don't you all come to these beloved countries and live here. Why are you a bigger Albanian than that guy living in Kosovo, or how come someone in Sydney is a bigger Serb than me, living here!

Today, on 14th anniversary of bombing of Radio Television buiding in Belgrade I wanted to see if you publshed the picture of the ruins of the building in Aberdarova Street were 16 of your colleagues, journalist were killed.
Of course not. This was not worth mentioning. You showed several pictures of destroyed buildings but no pictures of TV Tower on Avala and RTS building.
I guess you have to be careful not to hurt the feelings of you financiers.
Shame on you.
Misha Jovanovic, San Diego, California

(Kosovo) it's 1000 times better then it ever was and I don't want to go into long stories here but I know first hand how it was to live in Kosovo cos I'm from there.
(Mendo, 25 March 2013 23:58)

Mendo, if Kosovo is the shiny little land you're sketching here, can you explain why the heck Kosovars are still swarming into Italy and the rest of Europe?