Serbian President Boris Tadic said Saturday the 1999 NATO bombing campaign that stopped his country’s offensive on Kosovo 13 years ago was a crime, and he paid tribute to the hundreds of Serbs the alliance killed.
“That was a crime against our country and our people, and I have nothing to add to that,” Tadic said during a ceremony marking the anniversary of the bombing in the central Serbian town of Aleksinac. A large, controversial monument memorializing those killed in the 1990s Balkan wars was unveiled in Belgrade, the capital, on Saturday.
Although the U.S.-led NATO campaign was framed as a humanitarian mission to protect Albanian Kosovars, Washington’s intentions were more about international interests in extending military and economic influence into the post-Soviet geographic sphere. Anyways, Washington’s support for atrocities far worse than those committed by Serbia, like those in East Timor at the same time for example, demonstrates the flawed humanitarian justification.
The 78-day NATO bombing campaign was not approved by the United Nations Security Council and targeted not just Serbian military targets but also civilian infrastructure like electricity and water supplies and communication systems, which are crimes under international law.
Serbian authorities say 2,500 people, about half civilian, were killed in the NATO bombings. Most estimates place the number of civilian deaths caused by NATO’s assault at about 500, with many more military casualties. The death count for the entire Kosovo conflict, which worsened considerably after NATO’s intervention, is about 10,000.
I guess at that time Luise Arbor as Canadian Judge didn't had a guts to call for War Crimes. of course been awarded with nice UN post is much more better.
Amnesty International charged NATO for Unlawful killings but this never made it to the Free press.
"The 78-day NATO bombing campaign was not approved by the United Nations Security Council and targeted not just Serbian military targets but also civilian infrastructure like electricity and water supplies and communication systems, which are crimes under international law”.
So where is ICC to prosecute Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Madeline Albright and the Swedish, French, German Social democrats or democrats and Labor politicians for that matter. So where is ICC and that half moon the UN secretary to come out and condemn such criminal act committed by these people, so where is that Italian mafiosi and where is the "International Community” or those who call themselves the "world powers” wanting to establish “democracy" all over the world to come out and condemn NATO and its brutal militarism regime, where is that Rasmussen, the Danish Neo Fascism and for Danish social democrats to be prosecuted for his crime in Libya, where is that “democracy" that these Neo Fascist are talking about.
NATO bombed kids in their beds and people taking the trolley down the road. Sound like military targets to you? So when we hear about what they do elsewhere you only have to remind yourselves of these events. NATO, and that means the US, is a murderous lying bunch of psychopaths. Nothing new it seems.
NATO bombed kids in their beds and people taking the trolley down the road. Sound like military targets to you? So when we hear about what they do elsewhere you only have to remind yourselves of these events. NATO, and that means the US, is a murderous lying bunch of psychopaths. Nothing it seems has changed in all these years.
So the killings of innocent civilian in Croatia and Bosnia was not a crime against humanity. Having concentration and rape camps in Bosnia in the 90s was all well and good because these people we not Serbs it was OK. Typical Serbian revisionist history in motion again. As always the Serbs rewriting history to make them selves the fall guys. Sorry the world saw what you as a people really are, blood thirsty lying excuses for a race of humans, if we can call you human as you show no humanity at all but for your selves. Enough said
The International Committee of the Red Cross spokeswoman said that the camps run by the Croats and Bosnian Muslims were as bad as the camps run by the Bosnian Serbs, and she did not understand why the news media focused only on the Serbian camps.
Please, you are hiding under a new psudo but with the old ideas.
Remember Jasenovac? Go there to commiserate about the victims.
You can't erase that monumental crime no matter what you say
about the Serbs. You are hatter and war monger.
Where exactly in Bosnia were these "concentration camps" and "rape camps"? Or are you just assuming that if a scoundrel utters a lie and a few of his friends repeat it, then it automatically becomes the truth? All the claims about the so called concentration camps have been conclusively debunked so stop blowing sunshine up our collective asses.
The Yanks got their fat asses handed to them two years later on 9/11.
A map with Kosovo torn from Serbia? So Mr. Glaser is telling us the KLA-run international protectorate seating itself in Prishtina is a legally established state?
Can Mr. Glaser explain what made anything the Serbs did in 98-99 an "offensive on Kosovo"? How can Serbia attack a part of itself?
What makes the monument unveiled in Belgrade controversial? Is it controversial in Serbia, or is it controversial to Mr. Glaser alone?
Funny that Mr. Glaser has to go all the way to Timor to find US-supported atrocities worse than those committed by Serbia. Actually NATO in the Kosovo War killed more civilians than the Serbs, and possibly more than the KLA. You have worse, US-perpetrated, not just US-supported atrocity, during the very conflict.
No, the Serbian numbers do not claim "2,500 people, about half civilian" were killed. The "official" number in Serbia for the period of NATO aggression that everybody knows is just over 500 military and more than 2000 civilian.
It is not true "most estimates" place the number at 500. These estimates in fact all come from one and the same source and that is Human Rights Watch, a Soros-funded NGO close to the US government and its humanitarian interventionist agenda.
There is no way the death toll for the war is "about 10,000" as your own Nebojsa Malic explained years ago: http://grayfalcon.blogspot.com/2007/09/kosovo-dea… That estimate is rooted in the phony figure of "11,000 mostly Albanians killed" that Imperial propaganda mills tried to cement since they had to abandon their 100,000 number just after the war.
Please don't write about this issue from a position of ignorance no more. Unintentionally you end up doing a service to Imperial propaganda. Have an old timer who remembers how antiwar.com covered this as it actually happened write these news pieces. The new guys end up parroting stuff your people raised doubt, or rejected at the time when it was current. Glaser and Ditz do a superb job on the current stuff, for which I'm grateful, but obviously haven't researched 15-year old Kosovo War to a satisfactory degree. You can do better, please try.
Why was my comment on this deleted? Can I get an explanation? Why are you doing this, I’m not your enemy, why am I being treated like one?
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NATO needs to be disbanded. Where the hell is our peace dividend!?
"Peace dividend". America spends far more NOW on the military then it did during the cold war.
Get in line behind the Bonus Army. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army
You failed to explain the 'controversy' regarding the monument honoring these
killed by NATO bombing. Was it bad art work or something worse; the Serb
when killed in former Yugoslavia do not count? It's clear that the war was against the the Serbs. The old Hitler was resurrected by his old allies from the WWII in Yugoslavia. That explains why and how things happened.
This was just the replay of unfinished business.
That was a crime against our country and our people, and I have nothing to add to that,”
Tadic said during a ceremony marking the anniversary of the bombing in the central Serbian town of Aleksinac. A large, controversial monument memorializing those killed in the 1990s Balkan wars was unveiled in Belgrade, the capital, on Saturday.
SO why is the ass hole still kissing these NATO and US criminals asses?
He ie a fake Serb, and a manipulating crook will say anything the fools want to hear.
RE:humanitarian mission to protect Albanian Kosovars
John, there was not such an animal as Kosovar either Serb or Albanian. They all were citizens of Yugoslavia living in Kosovo. "Kosovar" is a newspeak term brought up by attack party, namely USA politicos. "Free Kosovo" is still not a real country and I doubt it ever will be. These "Kosovars" still fly Albanian national flag as they own, despite the effort of attack party to teach them to follow their lead in pretending there is actually a new people in the old Europe who call themselves Kosovars. They are and always will be Albanians. All Serbs except in the north of Kosovo are either dead or pushed away by victorious Albanians under assistance of "international community" which means largely NATO. I understand that Germans had a beef with Serbs following courageous resistance of Serbs they put up against Hitler's The 3rd Reich. But I certainly do not understand why Americans did what they did with Serbs.
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