NATO agression on Yugoslavia: 6 years latter
http://www.artel.co.yu/en/reakcije_citalaca/2005-03-21.html
Belgrade Forum for World Equality
Belgrade, March 17, 2005
NOTICE
This month, March 24th specifically, marks the sixth anniversary of the
beginning of the NATO pact's 1999 aggression against the Federal
Republic of
Yugoslavia. During the aggression, which lasted 78 days, thousands of
people became casualties, a large number of whom were wounded and rendered
disabled for the rest of their lives. The result was the
destruction of the
road and rail network, schools, hospitals, petroleum facilities
and cultural
monuments. The direct material damage is estimated at US$ 1 billion. The
use of depleted uranium has lastingly polluted land and water
the length and
breadth of Serbia and Montenegro, particularly Kosovo and Metohija. The
consequences on the population, particularly infants and children is being
seen in terrible birth defects and this is just the tip of the
iceberg which
will only get worse with time. The ghosts of ruined buildings are still
visible in the center of Belgrade.
The aggression of NATO on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia represents a
previously unseen strike at the international legal system and
relations and
the entire United Nations system. Its motives and consequences represent
the most important occurrence in world affairs since WWII. It was a war
against Europe whose consequences are only now being accurately
seen. NATO's
aggression against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia represented the thin
wedge of the doctrine of unilateral use of force in
international relations
and, after the attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq the question asks itself,
"Who is next?"
In the course of that aggression NATO became allied with the
terrorist KLA.
The results of this association is felt to this day in the continuation of
terrorist activities against Serbs and other non-Albanians
throughout Kosovo
and Metohija, witnessed by the destruction of Christian cultural monuments
and the ethnic cleansing of Serbian and other non-Albanian
populations. The
most visible evidence of this state of affairs occurred in the period of
March 17- 19, 2004, when Albanian terrorists cleansed additional thousands
of Serbs from the homes and hearths in which they have lived for centuries
as well as destroying an additional 35 Middle Age Serbian churches and
monasteries.
The consequences have been the maintenance of ties and the presence of
'sleeper cells' of Al-Quaidi in the Balkans. A further consequence is that
over 250 thousand Serbian and non-Albanian refugees, who were forced from
Kosovo during the 1999 NATO attack and afterward, have been denied the
ability to return to Kosovo, contrary to all promises to the contrary.
The thesis regarding 'frustrated Kosovo Albanians' was manufactured and
forwarded with the object of justifying NATO's illegal attack and to move
forward the detaching of Kosovo and Metohija from Serbia, and the creation
of a 'Greater Albania' at the detriment of the lands of Serbia,
Montenegro,
Macedonia and Greece. The Albanians in Kosovo Metohija aren't frustrated;
that thesis was launched to expedite the implementation of plans for the
changing of internationally recognized borders in the Balkans. Why does no
one speak of the fact that Serbs are frustrated, particularly those in
Kosovo and the over 250 thousand who can't return to their homes?
Are they unconcerned about the state of affairs? The Balkans and Serbia
Montenegro need peace, stability and development. That is only possible
within existing borders. Before the so-called final decision on Kosovo
Metohija there must be a way found to return the 250 thousand
refugee Serbs
to Kosovo Metohija.
Attachment:
Attack on civilians
During the NATO aggression on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
from March
24-June 10, 1999, NATO aircraft committed many multiple attacks against
civilians and civilian infrastructure. In those attacks
children, the sick,
travelers, people on the streets, in the markets, refugee columns all
suffered. Hospitals, homes, schools, churches and bridges were
all attacked
and destroyed. The spokespersons of NATO called these kinds of attacks
'collateral damage', even though the evidence shows that the purpose of
these bombings was to terrorize and destroy the moral of the civilian
population.
We remind the readers of some of the occurrences in which civilians were
casualties:
April 4 - Heating plant in Belgrade (1 dead) April 12 - Passenger train at
Grdelica (20 dead) April 14 - Refugee column in Kosovo Metohija (73 dead)
April 23 - Radio Television Beograd (16 dead) May 1 - Bridge in Kosovo (39
dead) May 2 - Civilian bus near Savinih voda in Kosovo (17 dead) May 7 -
Chinese embassy in Belgrade (3 dead) May 7 - Nis (14 dead) May 8
- Bridge in
Nis (2 dead) May 13 - Refugee camp in Kosovo Metohija (48 to 97
dead) May 19
& 21 - Dubrava prison at Istok (99 dead) May 30 - Bridge at Varvarin (10
dead)
This is only a small number of the innocent civilians of NATO's
aggression.
As humans, a people and a nation we have the moral obligation to honor all
the other casualties of that aggression. On that other list of casualties
let us remember 2 year old Milice Rakic from Batajnice, a suburb of
Belgrade, the casualties of the bombing of the children's ward of Dragisa
Misovic Hospital in Belgrade and many others. Let us remember
the thousands
and thousands of wounded who are still with us, often without the basic
minimum for existence.
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