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NATO bombing commemorated
Belgrade,
24 March 2006
Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica attended the commemoration of victims of the 1999 NATO bombardment against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia at the St. Marko Church in Belgrade today.
Serbia today marks the seventh anniversary of NATO’s 78 day-long bombardment, during which around two thousand citizens lost their lives, including 90 children and 1,002 Yugoslav Army members.
The commemoration, also attended by ministers Radomir Naumov and Aleksandar Popovic and nearly 200 citizens, was served by Bishop Atanasije Rakita.
Head of the Coordinating Centre for Kosovo-Metohija Sanda Raskovic-Ivic, Speaker of the Serbia-Montenegrin parliament Zoran Sami, head of the Serbian parliament’s committee for Kosovo-Metohija Dusan Prorokovic and academic Matija Beckovic were also present at the commemoration ceremony.
The commemoration of the victims killed in NATO’s campaign against Yugoslavia was also marked today by all air and air defence units of the Army of Serbia-Montenegro.
There is almost no city in Serbia that was not target of bombs and rackets. Bombs hit the centres of Aleksinac, Nis and Cuprija, the hospital and old-peoples home in Surdulica, Novi Pazar, the Vavarin bridge, the train in the Grdelica gorge, buses near the village of Luzane in Kosovo-Metohija and near Savine Vode.
The targets in Belgrade included the building of state television Radio-Television of Serbia (RTS), where 16 workers were killed, as well as Dr Dragisa Misovic hospital.
Two convoys of refugees were also bombed in Kosovo-Metohija on the road near Djakovica and in the village of Koris.
The air strikes against Yugoslavia ended on June 10, 1999 with projectiles that hit the village of Kololec near Kosovska Kamenica at 1.15 pm.
The commemoration, also attended by ministers Radomir Naumov and Aleksandar Popovic and nearly 200 citizens, was served by Bishop Atanasije Rakita.
Head of the Coordinating Centre for Kosovo-Metohija Sanda Raskovic-Ivic, Speaker of the Serbia-Montenegrin parliament Zoran Sami, head of the Serbian parliament’s committee for Kosovo-Metohija Dusan Prorokovic and academic Matija Beckovic were also present at the commemoration ceremony.
The commemoration of the victims killed in NATO’s campaign against Yugoslavia was also marked today by all air and air defence units of the Army of Serbia-Montenegro.
There is almost no city in Serbia that was not target of bombs and rackets. Bombs hit the centres of Aleksinac, Nis and Cuprija, the hospital and old-peoples home in Surdulica, Novi Pazar, the Vavarin bridge, the train in the Grdelica gorge, buses near the village of Luzane in Kosovo-Metohija and near Savine Vode.
The targets in Belgrade included the building of state television Radio-Television of Serbia (RTS), where 16 workers were killed, as well as Dr Dragisa Misovic hospital.
Two convoys of refugees were also bombed in Kosovo-Metohija on the road near Djakovica and in the village of Koris.
The air strikes against Yugoslavia ended on June 10, 1999 with projectiles that hit the village of Kololec near Kosovska Kamenica at 1.15 pm.
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