Long Reads: The Life and Death of Yugoslavia w/ Catherine Samary (Part 2)
Jacobin Radio
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The NATO Bombing Campaign in Serbia
On March 24, 1999, Western nations carried out their threat against Serbia and began the biggest military conflict on Serbian soil since World War II. NATO saw the war as the only way to end President Slobodan Milosevic's violent crackdown in Kosovo. At the end of the campaign, eleven weeks later, human rights watch estimates around 500 civilians were killed. A decade on, the scars are still visible in Belgrade. Many of the ethnic Serbs who left Kosovo are yet to return,. The Serbian government won't recognise Kosovo's independence.
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