NATO attack on the civilian population on 30 May 1999 in broad daylight

by Hans Wallow*, Germany

Sanja Milenkovic was only 15 years old. She died on a glorious spring day, the religious holiday celebrating the Holy Trinity, when on 30 May 1999 NATO fighter jets destroyed a militarily insignificant bridge across the Morava in Sanjy’s Serbian hometown Varvarin, connecting two parts of the town. Together with her another 10 civilians died in the massacre in the small Serbian province town. 27 Varvarin citizens were severely injured.

Sanja’s mother, Vesna Milenkovic, is one the family of dead or affected persons, who demanded compensation of the Federal Republic of Germany – acting for NATO – before the Federal High Court in Karlsruhe. For the first time after Germany had participated without reservation in a combat mission that was not UN covered and contrary to international law, civilian victims demanded compensation.

“Many people still want to know today, how Princess Diana died, I want to know, why my innocent child had to die”, says Vesna Milenkovic: “We are very concerned about justice and that the truth becomes known and the responsible persons are named. Nobody can reüplace my daughter.”

Although the Federal High Court in Karlsruhe took the same view as in the case of the massacre committed by the SS in the Greek village of Distomo, that war results were to be regulated only among states, the Federal High Court Judges then expressly left open – due to the strengthening of the individual in international law – whether for the example this is also true for combat missions of the German Federal Armed Forces abroad.

The air raid was contrary to international law and thus a war crime

This was what the Varvarin citizens, represented by the Karlsruhe lawyer Professor Dr. iur. Norbert Gross, had hoped for. In the reasons of appeal he states, “that individual civil claims of aggrieved persons deriving from their national right are not excluded beside any claim in international law by their mother country”.

The air raid was contrary to international law for the people of Varvarin and thus a war crime. But the judges in the red robes did not risk anything, they did not want to get involved neither in the contradictory statements of the War Ministry nor in the global liability of the individual war waging NATO states and remained with the dominant opinion. Thus they fell behind the principles of the valid Afghan Islamic tribal law, according to which an act of murder can be atoned for by the “Talnion”, an adequate compensation, as the regulations in the “Sachsenspiegel”, the oldest form of written law in Germany, say.

The 10 dead and 27 severely wounded persons were simply interpreted away. Now the Varvarin citizens decided to appeal with the Federal Constitutional Court.

What happened on 30 May 1999? The day began in the Serbian town of Varvarin at the river Morava like all over Europe as a young, glorious spring day. Very early the anglers sat at the river bank. It was market day, and the celebration of the Holy Trinity was celebrated with a procession. At noon there were many people around the single-lane makeshift bridge, which had been established by the Germans after the Second World War as a compensation. The fifteen-year old student and daughter of the mayor, Sanja Milenkovic, ran with her two friends Marina Jovanovic and Marijana Stojanovic across the bridge.

Murderous attack on civilians

Marina Jovanovic, who appears before the Karlsruhe High Court as claimant, reports about the most terrible moment of her life: “At 1.00 o’clock we came from church and from the market in good mood and went on our way home for lunch, our way leading us across the bridge back to Donji Katun, a borough of Varvarin. We were already close to the other side of the river, and we were not in a hurry, because it was a beautiful, sunny day in May. Suddenly there was a hissing, a dreadful impact hurled us through the air, and I heard my friends screaming. All around there was a terrible heat, I felt like glowing and then floating in the air.”

Marina falls down with the bridge, faints for two or three minutes and then realizes her bleeding hand, hears Marijanas calls for help and sees nothing but the central pillar of the bridge rising before her. Her right leg is totally smashed below the knee, the lower leg seems only be connected to the body by pure flesh. Like the two other girls she is lying on the diagonally hanging down footpath of the bridge.

Sanja seems heavily injured, has the hand on her chest and wants to say something, but she does not succeed. She breathes heavily. After the first impact, she is sitting with her back to the railing, about 1 to 2 meters away from her, then after approximately five minutes the airplanes come back. She sees their trace and also the projectile that dashes towards her. Suddenly Sanja slips away downward and loses consciousness. She now hangs with her head in the water. Marina creeps down, in order to hold her head above water. She slips along on her elbow, because she cannot use her legs, and calls for help. On the back she carries a backpack, which probably saved her life, because a fragment of a kilo had penetrated it. From the backpack she gets a water bottle and moistens the face of the unconscious Sanja. Now it seems, as if Sanja was smiling at her. Marina stands in the water up to the hip, she can hardly keep upright because of the strong current, and she fears that her leg could be amputated completely. Therefore, she gets out of the water again.

Marijana, who is heavily hurt as well, tries to pull herself up at the railing, then sees to her astonishment that from the upper arm a bone protrudes, and at the same moment she is at the end of her tether. With the second impact she sees, how Sanja continues to slip downward. It is dark, sticky, the eyes burn, and both friends lose consciousness repeatedly. The collapsed bridge makes the water level rise, so that the girls lie now with their body in the river. Marijana gets more frightened, she fears for Sanja, and for herself, because she cannot swim. Marijana sees her friend Marina creeping with the water bottle to Sanja, in order to wash to her face and so bring her back to consciousness. Both call it for help and scream loudly: “Take care of Sanja!”

Second attack kills 8 helpers

When the first rockets meet the bridge across the Morava, panic breaks out among 3500 people on the market in Varvarin, and immediately chaos prevails on the roads. Some people scream: “Away, just get away! They are coming back!” There are also calls that girls were on the destroyed bridge and a red car had fallen into the water. Others do not behave so egoistically, for example Milan Savic. He insults his friends in the café saying they were cowards: “But we have to help the wounded!” His decision to save others cost the lives of the 28 year-old man and 7 more helpers, among them the priest Milvoje Ciric.

A second air raid on the almost completely destroyed bridge followed. Sanja did not have a chance to live because of her heavy injuries. She died some hours later under the eyes of her mother in the hospital. Marijana remains crippled for the rest of her life. Marina, who studies medicine in Belgrade today, is still tormented by over 40 bomb fragments in her body, which cannot be removed in an operation. She says: “From that day on I have never been a light-hearted young person any more. I think of the cruel events again and again.”

German Tornadoes take part in attacks

In all lawsuits, from the regional court in Bonn to the Higher Regional Court in Cologne and up to the Federal High Court, the representatives of the Federal Government denied the participation of the German Air Forces in the attack on the bridge of Varvarin. That is very doubtful at least, as the German ECR Tornadoes as well as the reconnaissance tornadoes, which filmed the targets, flew from Italy to deployments in Yugoslavia about 484 times. The ECR bombers alone fired 244 AGM-88-Harm-Missiles at a price of 200 000 Dollars each. The Squadron Commander A. Schulte [name changed] said about the attacks of the German tornadoes before the defence committee of the German Bundestag: “We fired eight missiles per flight – thus eight times we ‘lighted’. Then the world awoke and shot at us.”

But even if German Federal Armed Forces pilots were not involved in bombardment, in the sense of a global liability Germany, too, is responsible for the events in Varvarin. Beyond that, the modern war machine is based on the division of labour to a high extent. Thus, it was a task of the reconnaissance tornadoes of the German Air Force to photograph the targets with the help of 60-mm-infrared cameras in Kosovo and in the Serbian hinterland. The targets were then judged and transferred to the combat bombers of other NATO states to be stored in their satellite-based control systems (GPS). The bomber crews then focussed their targets with the help of these videos.

The first NATO statement after the attack that the bridge of Varvarin had been a secondary target, which the pilots themselves had looked for, has meanwhile been disproved, because in a documentation of NATO of 31 October 1999 headed “Strategic target” as well as in an added target list the “highway bridge of Varvarin” is marked on a map. This “highway bridge” had already been mentioned before as one of 11 targets in Serbia and declared a bomb target. However, in Varvarin there is none. There was only the single-lane makeshift bridge, which led into a local borough. Even judge Sonnenberg in the Bonn regional court had realized this. One does not have to be military personnel in order to exclude this bridge as one of eleven “strategic targets”.

“Pushing the release button required great willpower”

Experts assume that this target had meant the four-lane freeway bridge about 15 km from Varvarin leading from Belgrade to Kosovo and that it was not meant to be the local bridge without military any meaning in the town of Varvarin. A mistake, which led to the “misthrow”?

According to one of the pilots of the reconnaissance squad, pushing the release button for the anti-radar missiles in the ECR or the camera button in the reconnaissance aircraft always requires great willpower. Thus the tornado pilots of the German Federal Armed Forces smooth the way for the following attack formations and that thereby in all probability people are killed – at least indirectly – had a deep effect on him, the soldier said.

The military expert and lieutenant colonel Juergen Rose has not doubt about it, he refers however to the US Air Force aerial war doctrine of the so-called five rings used by NATO, according to which the “target priority” ranks the “civilian population” even before the opposing military. – Did the German generals contribute to an aerial war contrary to international law?

NATO alone could throw a light on the matter, but it has remained silent until today. The existing action plans are still a military secret. Why so? NATO has rejected all accusations to offend against humanitarian international law. However, the defensive alliance admits tragic events, whereas these were not only inevitable incidents.

Air Force General Walter Jertz, once combat pilot and military speaker of NATO writes in his book “Im Dienste des Friedens – Tornados über dem Balkan” (In the name of peace – tornadoes on the Balkans): “Besides deliberately destroyed factories and infrastructure facilities, residential buildings and hospitals were always damaged and destroyed, too, – in the technical wars of the 20th century this often happens widely and intentionally in order to break the moral of the population.”

We certainly hope that the “Varvarin” case at the Federal High Court in Karlsruhe will contribute to disprove the statement of the Federal Government Schroeder/Fischer that it was pushed into the Kosovo war by the Clinton administration in Washington. According to a report in the “International Herald Tribune” the election winner Gerhard Schroeder explained immediately before he presented his credentials with President Clinton together with the delegates Fischer, Vollmer and Verheugen on 9 October 1998 in Washington: “Nobody, not even the president of Yugoslavia, is to hope that we follow a less decisive course than the past administration”.

“The way into war” – the red-green government was bent on doing so

According to Matthias Küntzel in “Der Weg zum Krieg” (Way into war), the war of intervention was assured even before the vote in the German Bundestag on 16 October 1998 of the designated government. The motive was that the red-green government was keen on being taken serious on the international stage in order to be granted a constant seat in the Security Council. The siding in this brutal civil war between Serbs and Albanians with its expulsions on both sides was sold to the good delegates of the Bundestag of the running out electoral period (legislative period between 1994 and 1998), to the homeland media front and to the German public as a crusade for human rights. Particularly the public television channels reacted with blind obedience. It is close to self-censorship that until today no documentation about the 2000 civilian victims of bombardment on Serbian side has been published.

Although Germany joined the Humanitarian International Law, experts in international law still argue about the conformity of the war against Yugoslavia with international law. It is clear that the bombardment of the hinterland of Serbia, including the bridge of Varvarin, was out of proportion. Professor Dr jur Reinhard Merkel said after the Kosovo war at the Evangelische Akademie in Arnoldshain: “Those who want to help someone else by letting indifferent third people pay with their life for the recovery, although this could have been avoided by accepting the risks for one’s own life and body, pursue a shabby maxim. They disavow the standard, to which he appeals for their own actions. – I fear that history will recall not only to the acts of the Mr. Milosevic, but also to the war of his opponents as a reminiscence of horror.”

* For three electoral periods, Hans Wallow served as a Member of Parliament in the German Bundestag. He lives as a writer in Bonn and wrote a theatre documentary about the attack on the bridge of Varvarin, which was played in three German theatres.

One single day out of 78 days...

Update of a strategy to bomb Yugoslavia back to Stone Age

NATO Headquarters, May 31, 1999, 9:30
Operation Allied Force Update

In one of the most intense days of Operation Allied Force, NATO aircraft struck far and wide at strategic and tactical targets throughout Serbia, further reducing the military capability and effectiveness of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia military and police apparatus.

NATO flew 772 sorties, the second highest mission total of the campaign. This included 323 strike and 92 suppression of air defence missions. This strike/SEAD combination of 415 is the highest strike rate of Operation Allied Force.

Regarding ground forces deployed in Kosovo, NATO aircraft successfully located, identified and struck significant numbers of weapons and equipment. These attacks included 12 tanks, seven artillery pieces, six armoured personnel carriers, two mortar positions, 10 revetted positions, a radar site and other military vehicle and troop positions.

The list of strategic targets hit is one of the largest in the 68 days of Operation Allied Force. Targets included [...] Highway bridge at [...] Varvarin.

Source: http://www.solidnet.org 

CP of Bohemia & Moravia, Statement On The Danger of Breaking of Serbian
Republic’s Territory Integration
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From: Communist Party of Bohemia & Moravia, Monday, March 26, 2007
http://www.kscm.cz  , mailto:leftnews@ kscm.cz
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Statement of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Bohemia and
Moravia on the danger of breaking of Serbian Republic’s territory
integration

In the present dispute over the future of Kosovo and Metohija, which has
acquired an international dimension, the Communist Party of Bohemia and
Moravia stands on the side of law, and on the side of support of Serbian
statehood in its full integrity, and for the rejection of the plans to
promote and to achieve a break-up of the Serbian state in favour of a
local separatism from so-called Kosovo´s Albanians.

Both the cases of 1938 Munich and NATO aggression in 1999 represent the
reminders, that every violence poses harm, which is worthy of disdain
and condemnation.

The Kosovo and Metohija region remains an integral part of the Serbian
state territory, even though it can be currently considered to be a
protectorate under an international administration. This fact is
anchored in the constitution and in international documents by which the
international borders of the Serbian state have been ratified; it is
also included in the UN Security Council Resolution No. 1244 of June,
1999, by which has been established the current regime in the region.
Unfortunately, after almost 8 years, that regime always shows a dramatic
deficit in observance of the Resolution No. 1244 as a security standards
for all citizens, for their freedom of movement, for returning of
Serbian exiles back to their homes, for the rights of both the Serbians
and the Non-Albanians to use their personal properties. It follows, that
no advance has been achieved since summer 1999 in anything for which the
Serbian side is neither guilty nor responsible, in conditions of
multiethnic coexistence, but in which the Serbian side is in the
position of victim.

The Central Committee of the CPBM entrusts the group of its Members of
Parliament to strive on the parliamentary grounds for a government of
the Czech Republic’s presentation of an official statement on the
situation in Kosovo and Metohija, and on the manner of solution of that
situation, and strives to achieve that the Czech government will
undertake and not to allow Czech troops in Kosovo to be unilaterally
abused for actions, which could be out of accordance with an official
standing of the Serbian Republic and out of accordance with the UN
Charter.


*End*

(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 16 MAR - E' morto d'infarto al trentanovesimo giorno dichiarato di sciopero della fame un cittadino serbo impegnato in una forma di protesta estrema per denunciare la mancata promessa di un alloggio nuovo alla sua famiglia in sostituzione della casa distrutta fin dai raid Nato del 1999. Lo scrive oggi il tabloid belgradese Kurir. Protagonista della tragedia, Milovoje Stamenkovic, 60 anni, originario della citta' di Nis (sud del Paese ex jugoslavo). L'uomo, senza casa da ormai otto anni, aveva cercato in tutti i modi di ottenere un nuovo alloggio definitivo, ma non era venuto a capo di nulla malgrado le ripetute promesse delle autorita'. Alla fine ha deciso di portare il suo caso all'attenzione dei media con l'arma dello sciopero della fame, senonche', dopo oltre un mese di privazioni, il suo cuore ha ceduto. Secondo i dati riportati dalla stampa, la gran maggioranza dei serbi rimasti privi di un tetto in seguito ai bombardamenti del 1999 - concentrati soprattutto nel sud - e' costretta tuttora ad arrangiarsi in modo precario. L'intervento militare dei Paesi Nato contro la Serbia - risoltosi in due mesi e mezzo di bombardamenti pressoche' ininterrotti - fu giustificato dall'Occidente con la volonta' di fermare la politica repressiva adottata dell'allora regime serbo-jugoslavo di Slobodan Milosevic per fronteggiare la guerriglia separatista nella provincia del Kosovo.(ANSA). LR
16/03/2007 18:07

http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&q=9084&cid=45&p=24.03.2007

Voice of Russia
March 24, 2007

The eighth anniversary of NATO bombings of Yugoslavia

Exactly eight years ago today NATO planes started
raining bombs and missiles on the Federal Yugoslavia
at the start of a 78-day campaign which killed an
estimated 3,000 civilians and nearly a thousand
soldiers of the Yugoslav army.

The material damage is estimated at between 50 billion
and 100 billion dollars.

Participants in the Forum for Peace and Equality that
was held in Belgrade on Friday proposed setting up a
special center to collect documented information about
the US-led aggression.

They also asked the Serbian government to file an
official report on the consequences of the use by NATO
of depleted uranium artillery shells and bombs during
the 1999 campaign. 

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http://www.srbija.sr.gov.yu/vesti/vest.php?id=32690

Government of Serbia
March 24, 2007

Memorial service held for victims of NATO bombing

Belgrade – Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica
attended today the memorial service for victims of
NATO bombardment against the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia in 1999, which was held in the St. Marko
Church in Belgrade.
The commemoration was served by Bishop Atanasije of
Hvostan, and besides Kostunica, ministers in the
Serbian government and friends and families of those
killed in the 1999 bombing were also present. 
On this day eight years ago the military action
against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia by NATO
began, after which an international protectorate was
established in the Serbian province of
Kosovo-Metohija.
During the 78 days long action of air strikes titled
“Merciful Angel” 1,002 members of the Yugoslav Army
and the Serbian police lost their lives; it claimed
the lives of nearly 2,500 civilians, including 89
children and some 10,000 people were left injured and
hurt.
The air campaign consisted of some 2,300 air strikes
on 995 targets throughout the country. 1,150 NATO
fighter planes launched nearly 1,300 cruise missiles
and dropped 2,900 bombs on not just military but also
civilian targets. 
Combined with most deadly weapons, NATO also used
banned weapons against Yugoslavia, dropping 36,000
cluster bombs and 15 tonnes of ammunition with traces
of radioactive elements, which were used for
bombarding 112 locations.
Besides military targets, two convoys of refugees in
Kosovo-Metohija, the Varvarin Bridge, a train in the
Grdelica gorge, and a market place in Nis were also
bombed.
The Dr Dragisa Misovic hospital and the Chinese
embassy in Belgrade were also hit, leaving several
innocent civilians dead. 
Targets in Belgrade also included the building of the
state television Radio-Television of Serbia (RTS)
where 16 workers were killed and four were severely
wounded. 
Wreaths were laid and candles were lit on the monument
for victims of the bombing on the anniversary of the
NATO military action.

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[ Minor English editing and a couple of clarifications cf. on geography of
the referred to locations are given in brackets. -- PT ]

www.glas-javnosti.co.yu

Glas Javnosti daily, Belgrade

Saturday, March 24, 2007

Today is the eight-year anniversary of the beginning of the bombing of the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Suffering and deaths must not be forgotten

Abstract:
During 78 days of air strikes approximately 2,500 people died, including
557 civilians, while some 12,500 were wounded. The administration at that
time estimated that material damage of 100 billion dollars was done
On today's date eight years ago NATO began the bombing of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia because, as then NATO secretary-general Javier
Solana explained, "all efforts to achieve a political solution through
negotiations of the Kosovo crisis have failed".

During [the] 78 days of air strikes approximately 2,500 people died,
including 557 civilians, while some 12,500 were wounded. Various
[pieces of] information have been presented regarding [the] material
damage. The administration at that time estimated that material damage of
100 billion dollars was done, while G17, then a group of independent
economists, assessed the damage at 29.6 billion dollars. The NATO
aggression against Yugoslavia [FRY, later renamed into Serbia-Motenegro]
lasted 11 continuous weeks during which [the country's] infrastructure,
[as well as many] commercial buildings, schools, health institutions,
media houses and cultural monuments were damaged or destroyed.

After unsuccessful negotiations regarding a proposed peace agreement in
Rambouillet near Paris conducted from February 6 to March 19 [1999] by the
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Kosovo Albanians, and the collapse
of negotiations between the FRY president Slobodan Milosevic with U.S.
special envoy Richard Holbrooke, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on
March 23 made the decision to bomb FRY.

Then NATO secretary-general Javier Solana who after the meeting of the
NATO Council issued an order for the initiation of the campaign 'Merciful
Angel' accused the government in Belgrade for the collapse of negotiations
and emphasized that actions would be directed toward "interruption of
violent attacks being carried out by the Serbian Army and special police
forces and the reduction of their capabilities" .

Attacks began on March 24, 1999 just before 8:00 p.m. The Yugoslav
government soon proclaimed a state of war, and on the first night more
than 50 buildings in various parts of the country were targeted, including
in Pristina, Kursumlija, Uzice, Danilovgrad, Novi Sad, Pancevo, Podgorica,
Kraljevo, Kragujevac...

According to communique by the Yugoslav Army General Staff, during the
first night 10 soldiers were killed and 38 were wounded. As the bombing
continued, attacks increased in frequency and became more fierce, and the
targets of the bombers were no longer just military but also civilian
ones.

In addition to air combat in Kosovo and Metohija all 78 days there were
ongoing battles between the Yugoslav Army and the Kosovo Liberation Army,
which received logistical and military support from NATO. The Alliance
carried out attacks from ships in the Adriatic, from four air force bases
in Italy, and some operations involved strategic bombers who took off from
bases in western Europe and even the U.S.A.

By April 1 one of the symbols of Novi Sad, the Varadin Bridge, had been
destroyed; two days later the Liberty Bridge was also destroyed, while the
most resilient, the Zezelj Bridge, long resisted the bombs but also ended
up in the Danube at the end of April. In Kursumlija on April 2, 13
civilians died and 25 were wounded, and in the bombing of Aleksinac on
April 5, 13 died and more than 50 people were wounded.

Cuprija was bombed on April 8 and on that occasion a settlement of about
800 buildings was destroyed. The next day in an attack on the Kragujevac
factory "Zastava" 124 workers were injured. The Grdelica Bridge was bombed
on April 12 at the very moment a train was crossing the bridge: 14
passengers were killed and more than 20 sustained serious injuries. On
April 14 NATO planes bombed two columns of [Kosovo ethnic] Albanian
refugees on the road from Djakovica to Prizren [in southern Kosovo],
killing 75 and wounding more than 100 civilians.

During the bombing of Batajnica [suburb of Belgrade] on April 17, a single
projectile killed three-year old Milica Rakic in her home. In an attack on
Nis on April 19 one civilian was killed and 11 were seriously wounded. A
settlement of refugees from Krajina [the region in today's Croatia that
used to be overwhelmingly populated by ethnic Serbs] located near
Djakovica was also hit: five people were killed and 19 wounded, and the
settlement burned to the ground.

On the thirtieth day of the bombing, April 22, two missiles hit the
residence of FRY president Slobodan Milosevic in Uzicka Street number 15.
The next day at 2:00 a.m. the Radio Television Serbia building in
Aberdareva Street in Belgrade was hit. On that occasion 16 workers died
and four were seriously wounded. After this tragedy then RTS director
Dragoljub Milanovic was later sentenced to a 10 year prison term for
refusing the carry out orders to remove personnel and technology from the
television building.

In the attack on Surdulica on April 27 20 civilians died, including 11
children, and 200 people were wounded. Belgrade survived the fiercest
attack on April 30 when the building of the Yugoslav Army General Staff
and the old building of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs were hit,
the television tower on Mt. Avala was toppled and several private
buildings in the Vracar quarter destroyed. Three people died and 38 were
wounded. In the village of Murino na Limu five people were killed, and
another person later died from sustained injuries.

In the village of Luzane near Pristina on May 1 40 died and 16 passengers
of a bus bombed by NATO aviation were wounded. Two days later another bus
was targeted with a missile on the Pec - Kula - Rozaje road. Twenty
passengers died, many of them children, and 43 people sustained some
degree of injury.

On May 7 NATO bombed the embassy of the People's Republic of china in New
Belgrade "by mistake", it later explained. Three Chinese citizens were
killed and seven seriously wounded. The same night the Hotel Yugoslavia
was targeted with missiles.

The Cacak industrial zone was bombed on May 10. Four people were killed,
and 13 were wounded. The next day in attack on the Sever industrial zone
in Nis two people were killed, and two high school students in the center
of Vladicin Han. Another column of Albanian refugees was bombed on March
13 near the village of Koris near Prizren. Eighty-one people were killed
and more than 70 wounded.

The penitentiary-rehabilitation center in Istok was bombed the first time
on May 19 and at that time three prisoners were killed and six wounded. In
a second attack two days later 93 prisoners and guards were killed, and
some 200 people were wounded. The following day the Clinical Medical
Center Dr. Dragisa Misovic in Dedinje was hit: three patients and a guard
were killed, and a large number of patients and personnel were wounded.

In an attack on Aleksinac on May 28 three civilians were killed and about
20 were wounded. During the bombing of the bridge on the Velika Morava in
Varvarin on May 30 10 people were killed and more than 40 were seriously
wounded. Surdulica was bombed again on May 31 and on that occasion the
Health Center for Lung Diseases and the Home for the Elderly were hit.
Twenty died and 40 were wounded.

The center of Novi Pazar was bombed on June 1. In a housing building that
was hit 13 people died and 35 were wounded. The last missiles fired at the
FRY were fired on June 9 at 7:30 p.m. near Urosevac, and the next day at
about 1:00 p.m. at the village of Kololec in Kosovska Kamenica
municipality.

The bombing of Yugoslavia ended on June 10 with the adoption of UN Security
Council Resolution 1244. The previous day representatives of the Yugoslav
Army and NATO signed the Military-Technical Agreement in Kosovo detailing
the withdrawal of Yugoslav Army forces from Kosovo and Metohija and the
deployment of international military troops in the province.

Sinisa Dedeic

=== 7 ===

IN MEMORIAM

 
Instead of a requiem to the innocent victims, and in order to prepare

in following three months actions of warning of humanity facing the

challenge of NATO industry of murder, here is a calendar of main crimes

only.

Remember that 80% of all NATO targets were civilian.

CALENDAR OF NATO RAIDS AGAINST FR OF YUGOSLAVIA IN 1999

 24TH March NATO aggression commences

 25th March Leskovac - air raid  to "Zdr avlje"  Chemical industries

 27th March Pancevo - heavily damaged Aeroplanes Factory "Lola-Utva"

 28th March Cacak -  heavily damaged Factory "Sloboda"

 1st April Novi Sad - destroyed "Varadinski bridge"

 3rd April Novi Sad - destroyed bridge "Freedom"

 4th April Novi Belgrade - Heating plant hit, one person killed

  Pancevo - raid on Oil refinery, two persons killed

 5th April Vranje - town attacked, two persons killed

  Aleksinac - town centre attacked, seven civilians killed

  Nis - heavily damaged Tobacco Factory DIN

  Lucani - damaged Chemical Industry "Milan Blagojevic"

 7th April Belgrade - missile attack, heavily damaged building of the

 Government of Serbia

 8th April Cuprija - attack on the town, one person killed

  Tornik - attack on the Sports centre "Cigota", three civilians killed

 9th April Kragujevac - heavily damaged Industries "Crvena zastava"

 11th April Merdare - five civilians killed in a missile attack

 12th April Grdelica Gorge - attack on the international train Belgrade -

 Salonika, twenty passengers killed

 14th April Pavlovac (Vranje) - missile attack, one person killed

  Pancevo - heavily damaged Chemical Factories "Petrohemija" and

 "Azotara"

  Valjevo - damaged structures at "Krusik" Factory

 15th April Rakovica - by missile attack damaged factories "Rekord", DMB,

 IMR, "Minel"

  Krusevac - damaged factory "14. October"

  Smederevo - destroyed bridge Smederevo-Kovin

  Nova Varos - destroyed bridge "Bistrica"

 17th April Batajnica - in a missile attack killed four-years old girl

 Milica Rakic

  Baric - in a missile attack damaged Factory "Prva iskra"

18th April Novi Sad - damaged building of the Provincial Executive

 Council

 19th April Nis -  attack on the city, one person killed

 21st April  Belgrade - heavily damaged building of the Head Committee of

 the Socialist Party of Serbia

 22nd April Belgrade - in an attack heavily damaged official residence of

 the President of FR  of Yugoslavia

  Uzice - destroyed building of the Post &Telecommunications

 23rd April Belgrade - attack on Serbia Broadcasting Corporation (RTS),

 17 civilians killed

 25th April Novi Sad  - destroyed "Zezelj Bridge"

 27th April  Surdulica - missile attack on a housing area, ten civilians

 killed

 29th April Belgrade - in the missile attack heavily damaged buildings of

 : Interior Ministry, Foreign Affairs Ministry, Ministry of Defence and

 General Staff, Government of the Republic of Serbia

 30th April  Belgrade - attack on housing buildings in the Maxim Gorki

 and Vardarska Streets, one person killed

  Trstenik -  missile attack, on person killed

 2nd May Sremska Mitrovica - missile attack on the town, one civilian

 killed

 7th May Nis - attack on the city centre , fourteen civilians killed

  Novi Belgrade - attack on the building of the Embassy of China

  Novi Belgrade - attack on Hotel "Yugoslavia", four persons killed

 10th May Cacak - attack on the company "Cer", four persons killed

 11th May Nis - missile attack, one person killed

  Doljevac - missile attack, one person killed

 17th May Zajecar - attack on Yugopetrol warehouses, one person killed

 18th May Valjevo - missile attack, one person killed

  Vladicin Han - missile attack, one person killed

 20th  May Belgrade - missile attack to Medical centre "Dragisa Misovic',

 four persons killed

 21st May Sombor - missile attack on town, four civilians killed

 25th May Sabac - missile attack, one person killed

 26th May Ralja, Belgrade - missile attack, three persons killed

 27th May Cekavicki most, Lebane - two persons killed

 28th May Aleksinac - missile attack to the town centre, two killed

 29th May Cerovacki most, Leskovac - one person killed

 30th May Varvarin - nine civilians killed when a bridge attacked

  Novi Sad - missile attack, completely destroyed Serbian Broadcasting

 Corporation building

  Nis - missile attack, two killed

 31st May Belgrade, Ripanj - one person killed

  Obrenovac - one person killed in the attack

  Novi Pazar - missile attack, eleven persons killed

  Surdilica - thirteen persons killed

 7th June Boljevac - thirteen persons killed

 8th June Novi Sad - missile attack, one person killed