BELGRADE: Serbia on Sunday (Mar 24) marked 20 years since the NATO air strikes that forced Belgrade to withdraw its troops from Kosovo, ending a ...
BELGRADE: Serbia on Sunday marked 20 years since the NATO air strikes that forced Belgrade to withdraw its troops from Kosovo, ending a conflict that claimed more than 13,000 lives.
NATO forces struck dozens of military targets, as well as infrastructure such as bridges, railways and the electrical grid.The number of civilian victims has not been officially established, and ranges from 500 according to Human Rights Watch to 2,500, according to Serbian officials. Earlier on Sunday, the ambassadors of eight Western countries - Canadian, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Norwegian, British and American - paid their respects to civilian victims at a monument in Belgrade.
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