“Today,
March 24th marks the 16th anniversary since NATO began its 78-day
bombing campaign of Serbia. The alliance bypassed the UN under a
'humanitarian' pretext, launching aggression that claimed thousands
of civilian. Years on, Serbia still bears deep scars of the NATO
bombings which, as the alliance put it, were aimed at 'preventing
instability spreading' in Kosovo.”
“Codenamed
'Operation Allied Force,' it was the largest attack ever undertaken
by the alliance. It was also the first time that NATO used military
force without the approval of the UN Security Council and against a
sovereign nation that did not pose a real threat to any member of the
alliance.”
“An
incident involving the 'mass killing' of Albanians in central
Kosovo’s village of Racak – a terrorist organization, Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA) stronghold – became a major excuse and
justification for NATO’s decision to start its operation. Serbs
were blamed for the deaths of dozens of Albanian 'civilians' on
January 15, 1999. However, it was alleged that the accusations could
have been false and the bodies actually belonged to KLA insurgents
whose clothes had been changed. In October 2008, Helena Ranta, the
Finnish pathologist who had conducted the forensic examination on the
Račak casualties, stated that she had been pressured to modify the
contents of her report, both by the Finnish Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, and by William Walker, the head of the Organization for
Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Kosovo Verification
Mission, in order to make more explicit the role of Yugoslav troops
in the incident.”
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