Serbian president Vucic condemns NATO bombings of Yugoslavia on anniversary

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has once again condemned NATO’s aggression against Yugoslavia once again on March 24, 1999. The 78-day bombings started without previous authorization of the United Nations (UN) Security Council, killing thousands of policemen, soldiers and civilians, and suffered immense material damage to its transport and energy infrastructure. Among NATO’s targets were houses and apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, and even kindergartens, while the weapons deployed included missiles containing depleted uranium and cluster bombs. The 15 tons of depleted uranium missiles dropped by NATO are directly responsible for the sharp increase in cancer rates in Serbia today. Thousands of Serbians gathered on Friday at a memorial service in the northern Sombor City, which was among the first to be hit by NATO forces, waving Serbian flags and lighting candles for the victims of the bombings, which most of them see as an act of injustice. Vucic said the international law was killed when NATO blasted the small country, which was “guilty only of seeking to make its own decisions, and to be free.“ “Twenty-four years ago, not only did you destroy our country, you also killed 79 of our children, and 2,500 of our people. They were ordinary people, soldiers and police. Who are you and why are you doing this to our soldiers and police? Whose territory is this? Whose country is this? Where do you get the right to persecute our defense forces? Who gave you the right?“ he said. “Do you think this is a lesson for us? I tell you clearly, no. You were trying to break our will by force. But the Serbs will never give in,“ the president said. NATO’s air attack also killed three Chinese journalists that year in Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia. __________________ ShanghaiEye focuses on producing top-quality contents. Nobody knows SHANGHAI better than us. Please subscribe to us ☻☻☻ __________________ For more stories, please click ■ What’s up today in Shanghai, the most updated news of the city ■ Amazing Shanghai, exploring the unknown corners of the city, learning the people, food and stories behind them ■ What Chinese people’s lives are like during the post COVID-19 period ■ Views of foreign scholars on China and its affairs ■ Foreign faces in Shanghai, people living in this city sharing their true feelings ■ Mini-docs showing why China is the country it is today __________________ ☎Leave us messages if you have any suggestions or questions! Thank you!