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Sputnik International
April 15, 2018
What followed was a 78-day NATO bombing campaign, which led to upwards of 5,700 civilian deaths, and contaminated areas of Kosovo and central Serbia with depleted uranium. In May 1999, the Hague indicted Milosevic for crimes against humanity in Kosovo, later tacking on charges over crimes inÃâà...
RT
April 14, 2018
Before that, Bill Clinton launched NATO's 78-day war against Yugoslavia in 1999, also without bothering with the UN. Such behavior would've seemed unimaginable in 1991, when the US made sure to have full Chapter VII UN authority to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait. So what happened in those eightÃâà...
RT
April 14, 2018
The American-British-French airstrikes on Syria are “a painful reminder” of NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, the Serbian president said. ... to the grim chapter in Serbian history when NATO launched a military operation in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) during the Kosovo War.
War on the Rocks
April 13, 2018
Russia opposed the 1999 NATO air war over Serbia and Kosovo, but after initially trying to contest the U.S. military presence in Kosovo during the famed standoff at the Pristina airport, the Russians eventually backed down. In 2003, Russia pulled its “blue helmet” peacekeepers from Bosnia and Kosovo,Ãâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
March 31, 2018
The Nuremberg trial ruled that “to initiate a war of aggression… is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime.” Yet this is precisely what Canada and its NATO allies have done. The Canadian government said it was bombing to force the Yugoslavian government to sign theÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
March 29, 2018
David Orchard led the anti-war campaign across Canada relentlessly mobilizing support against NATO's war on Yugoslavia. March 24, 2018 commemorates the 19th anniversary of NATO's war on Yugoslavia. This article was originally published on Globe and Mail on March 26, 1999 (published in a slightlyÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
March 27, 2018
David Orchard led the anti-war campaign across Canada relentlessly mobilizing support against NATO's war on Yugoslavia. March 24, 2018 commemorates the 19th anniversary of NATO's war on Yugoslavia. This article was originally published by Toronto's National Post on June 23, 1999. David OrchardÃâà...
Gazeta Express
March 24, 2018
The Government of Kosovo remembering 19th anniversary of NATO intervention unveiled a big banner in the Government's building in Pristina reading “Thank You NATO.” The Hague Tribunal after the war in Kosovo in 1999 charged Milosevic and six other top Belgrade officials with committing war crimesÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
March 24, 2018
The countries which joined NATO in the period following 1999 aggression on Serbia (FRY) at a short notice, have different historic experiences, they were no strangers to affiliation in military treaties, have not been neutral or non-aligned and, none of them has genuinely experienced the true meaning of theÃâà...
Expatica France
December 31, 1999
Kosovo war -. In 1999 NATO launches a 78-day bombing campaign on Yugoslavia to force its republic of Serbia to withdraw forces from Kosovo where it is accused of repressing separatists. Russia, an ally of Serbia, had threatened a return to a Cold War-style freeze in relations if NATO acted. Two daysÃâà...
