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by John Bosnitch, April 16, 1999
(Includes a MediaWatch supplement)
Scores of ethnic-Albanian Yugoslavs were killed by attacking NATO aircraft along a road in southwestern Kosovo on Wednesday, April 14. In a series of attacks, jets fired high explosives on a column of thousands of ethnic Albanians traveling in a convoy of buses, cars and tractors between Djakovica and Prizren.
Citing a figure of 72 dead, Yugoslav media accused NATO of deliberately committing the largest massacre in the three years since separatist Albanian guerrillas made their first attack on Serb civilians. NATO authorities initially denied responsibility and U.S. President Bill Clinton dismissed the killings as "regrettable, but inevitable." NATO said that any dead were "collateral damage" from a legitimate attack on a military convoy. IMCnews has prepared a detailed report on the massacre.
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10 Killed in NATO attack on railway
By John Bosnitch, Tuesday, April 13, 1999
The lull in NATO attacks over the Easter weekend of Orthodox Christians has come to an abrupt end with renewed heavy bombing. At least 10 passengers aboard a train were killed and 16 injured in an aerial attack at noon on Easter Monday, April 12.
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Stealth downed, bombing intensifies
Sunday, March 28, 1999
Yugoslav defense forces produced video footage of the debris of the best plane in NATO's arsenal on Saturday night, after reporting that they had shot down a U.S. F-117 Stealth fighter. They said they had retrieved navigation and concealment technology from the wreck.
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The first night of NATO's attack
Wednesday, March 24, 1999
The NATO attack on Yugoslavia began just before 8:00 p.m., sending residents across the country scrambling to their basements and into bomb shelters built during the Cold War.
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Despite NATO pounding, Serbs united
By Patrick Riley, FOX NEWS (Updated by The InterMedia Center, March 26, 1999)
WASHINGTON - As a second day of air attacks pummeled Yugoslavia, the Serbian people are more united than ever against NATO's demands, according to a journalist now in Belgrade.
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Friday, February 19, 1999
Despite threatening news of possible bombing from CNN and other foreign media, local television in Belgrade is focusing on how Yugoslavia cannot accept foreign occupation and how Russia will not allow intervention in Kosovo and Metohija.
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Strikes on Yugoslavia
By Sakamoto Ayuri
NATO began airstrikes on Yugoslavia on 24 March. So far, the thousands of Yugoslav citizens including ethnic Albanians have been killed by NATO strikes and the hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians have been expelled from the Kosovo province to the neighboring countries. Sakamoto reports on the tragedy in Yugoslavia by NATO attacks.
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Crisis in Kosovo province
by Sakamoto, Ayuri
Kosovo and Metohija is a province in Serbia, Yugoslavia. Kosovo is home to ethnic Albanians, Serbs, Montenegrins, Slavic Muslims, Turks, Romi (Gypsies), Goranies and others. Albanian separatists have waged a violent campaign to separate from Yugoslavia.
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