YUGOSLAVIA (SERBIA, MONTENEGRO), 1999 During the Kosovo War, the then-Yugoslavia, composed of what is now Serbia and Montenegro (Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, and Slovenia were no longer part at that time), carried out ethnic cleansing targeting the Albanian minority in Kosovo. Serbian police forcibly displaced entire families, who were forced to flee to neighboring countries or hide in the mountains. The army and armed forces killed civilian men and raped women. In some cases, they took pleasure in it and cruelly tortured people before killing them. They burned homes, mosques, and even entire villages. The result was tens of thousands of deaths and 800,000 displaced from Kosovo.
Humanitarian organizations considered this genocide. Europe, the USA, and NATO could not simply stand by and decided to respond. To stop further killings and human rights violations, they chose to bomb Yugoslavia after Serbia refused to negotiate about the situation.
The bombing lasted 78 days, from March to June 1999. The set objectives were achieved when Serbia withdrew its police and army from Kosovo, effectively ending the war.
However, it remains the most controversial NATO operation in history. The bombing was decided without a UN mandate. In addition to military targets, civilian objects were demonstrably hit, and the country’s infrastructure was destroyed. The bombings caused between 500 and 2,500 civilian deaths.
The then-president of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel, called this operation “humanitarian bombing,” a term still in use today.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimacy_of_the_NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_War
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