Events that have unjustly fallen into oblivion
44 articlesOn 12 June 1999, a column of 200 Russian soldiers from SFOR in Bosnia carried out an unplanned march to Slatina airport near Pristina, beating the NATO forces to it. This bold move stunned NATO and came within a hair's breadth of provoking an armed conflict between nuclear powers.
Read article12 June 1999 - KFOR (NATO troops) enter Kosovo. The same day the mass exodus of Serbs from Priština, Peć, Prizren and Đakovica begins. The Albanian terrorists KLA/OVK burn Serbian houses, kill, abduct, rape. KFOR watches and does not react. June-October 1999: 250,000+ Serbs and Roma expelled from Kosovo. This is ETHNIC CLEANSING - the largest in Europe since WW2.
Read articleKLA/OVK (Oslobodilačka Vojska Kosova) - albanska teroristička organizacija (1996-1999). Cilj: otcepljenje Kosova od Srbije, stvaranje "Velike Albanije". 1998 - SAD ih proglasio za teroriste. 1999 - NATO ih bombarduje Srbiju da ih podrži. Juni 1999-danas: KLA ubio 1,000+ Srba, kidnapovao 1,300+, spalio 100,000+ kuća. Hashim Thaçi (lider KLA) - ratni zločinac, sud u Hagu.
Read articleKFOR (NATO trupe, 17,000 vojnika) i UNMIK (UN administracija) ušli na Kosovo (juni 1999) sa mandatom "zaštite svih naroda". Realnost: gledali dok je 250,000+ Srba proterano, 1,000+ ubijeno, 100,000+ kuća spaljeno, 150+ crkava uništeno. Mart 2004 pogromi - 17,000 KFOR vojnika nije zaustavilo uništavanje 35 crkava za 48 sati. To nije nemoć - to je NAMERNA DOZVOLA.
Read article12 June - Day of remembrance of the Serb exodus from Priština and Kosovo (1999). 250,000+ Serbs driven out, 1,000+ killed, 1,300+ kidnapped. The Serbian people mark this day with commemorations, liturgies, the lighting of candles. The message: NEVER FORGET. Kosovo is the Serbian Golgotha - our suffering, our blood, our land. Forever.
Read articleRamsey Clark (Ramsey Clark), former Attorney General of the United States (1967-1969), filed a criminal complaint in 1999 against the NATO leaders for war crimes committed by the bombing of Yugoslavia. His legal activism was the strongest American institutional protest against the war.
Read articleAround Orthodox Easter of 1999, the enemy carried out some of the fiercest attacks on Košare. Those days, remembered as the „Bloody Easter", took many lives of the defenders, but even then the defence did not give way.
Read articleHarold Pinter, the British playwright and Nobel laureate, was one of the most vocal opponents of the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. In his famous Nobel lecture in 2005, he directly condemned the bombing as illegal and immoral.
Read articleMikis Theodorakis, the legendary Greek composer known for the music for the film „Zorba the Greek", was one of the most vocal opponents of the NATO bombing of Serbia. He organised concerts of solidarity and personally visited Belgrade during the war.
Read articleAt the Košare border outpost in Metohija near Đakovica, from 9 April to June 1999, the Yugoslav Army fought one of the hardest battles of its defensive war. Facing a superior enemy backed by NATO air power, the Serbian army paid a price of 108 dead — but never surrendered the border into Metohija.
Read articleNoam Chomsky, the American linguist, philosopher and one of the most cited intellectuals in the world, openly opposed the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999, calling it „a new militarism" and a violation of international law.
Read articleDuring the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999, the Greek people organised mass protests, blocked NATO convoys in Thessaloniki and sent humanitarian aid. Over 95% of Greeks were against the bombing — a unique case within the NATO alliance.
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