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| Source | Michael Eisenscher |
| Date | 99/06/10/09:53 |
| June 8, 1999 Dow Jones Newswires NATO Strikes Killed 2,000, Wounded 5,000 - Tanjug BELGRADE (AP)--More than 2,000 civilians have been killed and more than 5,000 wounded in 11 weeks of NATO air raids on Yugoslavia, the official Tanjug news agency reported Wednesday. The agency said the victims of NATO bombing included women, children, elderly and hospital patients. Tanjug added the country's infrastructure and economy have been heavily damaged. "Under excuse that it was trying to prevent an alleged humanitarian catastrophe in one part (of Yugoslavia) - Kosovo and Metohija- the alliance's aviation created a true humanitarian catastrophe," Tanjug said in its report. Serbs refer to the province as "Kosovo and Metohija." NATO launched its air campaign on March 24 to halt the suffering of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, where the Serb-led government forces fought the rebel secessionists. Yugoslavia denied reports of a humanitarian catastrophe in the province accusing NATO of looking for an excuse to bomb. Copyright © 1999 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
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