1999 NATO bombing anniversary

Today marks the eight year anniversary of the onset of 1999 NATO air campaign against FRY.

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Saturday, 24.03.2007.

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1999 NATO bombing anniversary

Belgrade city officials placed wreaths on the monuments erected in honor of the victims. The families of the state television (RTS) workers that died on April 23, 1999, when the NATO targeted the television building located in the heart of Belgrade, paid tribute to their loved ones in the Tašmajdan Park in Belgrade.

Žanka Stojanović, mother of a killed RTS employee, said that all victim’s families have been scarred stressing that “the killers of their children now walk the streets as free people.”

She said that Dragoljub Milanović, the state television director at the time of the bombing “was now a free man, since he served only two years in jail, even though he had been sentenced to ten years of imprisonment.”

The NATO bombing campaign began following the breakthrough of the Rambouillet talks set to resolve the conflict in Kosovo. The air campaign lasted 78 days, ending on June 10 with the signing of the Kumanovski Agreement and the adoption of the United Nations Security Council’s Resolution 1244.

The air strikes resulted in the Yugoslav Army retreating from Kosovo, and international forces entering the region.

Many industrial buildings, schools, health centers, media buildings and monuments were damaged or destroyed in the bombings and, according to estimates the bombing claimed between 1,200 and 2,500 lives.

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