Commemorations on the occasion of 11th year since the NATO aggression against Serbia

24/3/2010

All over Serbia and in the Serbian diaspora, Day of Remembrance of Victims of the NATO aggression against Serbia is being marked. Some 3,500 persons were killed, more than 12,500 were wounded and thousands of infrastructural facilities, hospitals, schools, buildings and other civilian targets were levelled to the ground or damaged in the NATO bombing, which began on 24 March 1999. On that occasion, commemorative gathereings have been held, homage was paid to victims and wreaths were laid on monuments.

Serbian Patriarch Irinej held a memorial service to all the victims of the NATO aggression in St Mark’s Church in Belgrade. NATO attributed the 78-day air strikes on the then FR Yugoslavia to alleged humanitarian reasons and the position of Kosovo Albanians. The aggression ended with the signing of the Kumanovo Agreement and the withdrawal of Yugoslav Army and Serbian Interior Ministry forces from Kosmet, after which UN peace forces arrived in the southern Serbian province. Ever since the arrival of the international forces, more than 200,000 Kosmet Serbs and other non-Albanians have been expelled from Kosmet.

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