Thread by @Americas_Crimes

On this day in 1999, NATO began bombing Yugoslavia, dropping 23,000 bombs/missiles & killing 1,000 civilians. The 78 day bombing campaign included strikes on hospitals, TV/radio stations, crowded markets, passenger trains & even a refugee camp.

The bombing campaign—which included many war crimes—injured thousands of civilians with attacks on private homes, as well as strikes on critical infrastructure like roadways, bridges & power plants.

NATO strikes included the use of cluster-bombs (which are banned by 102 countries), as well as, depleted uranium--which contaminated large areas with radioactive remnants of NATO’s weapons.
nytimes.com/2001/01/07/wor…

NATO justified the strikes as a “humanitarian intervention”; however, top-level Clinton officials have stated the actual reason was because Serbia would not bow to the US-run neoliberal order, so therefore it had to be eliminated. See here: chomsky.info/20060425/

Here are some of the worst war crimes NATO committed during the bombing:

On April 12, 1999, a NATO jet conducted a "double tap" strike on a passenger train at Grdelica gorge, killing 60 civilians. The jet fired a missile, then returned a short time later to hit the train again.

On April 23, 1999 NATO launched a direct attack on a civilian headquarters of Serbian state Television and Radio (RTS), NATO, killing 16 civilians.

On 14 May 1999, NATO conducted multiple air strikes a column of Albanian refugees near Koriša, killing at least 87 were killed and wounding 60—mostly women and children.

On May 7, NATO deliberately bombed the Chinese Embassy in Kosovo, though they claimed it was a mistake.
See here: theguardian.com/world/1999/oct…

Aside from deliberate war crimes, many NATO bombs missed their targets hitting civilian homes or businesses.
See Here: cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9…
And Here: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/34…