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Morning Star (Britain) March 24, 2009 Serbs remember 3,000 killed by NATO Serbians marked the 10th anniversary of the start of a NATO blitz on the former federal republic of Yugoslavia on Tuesday with commemorations honouring over 3,000 victims. Air-raid sirens sounded at noon throughout the country, while schools opened classes with a minute's silence for the 89 children who were killed in the 78-day bombing campaign, which was initiated without UN security council backing. NATO claimed that it had launched Operation Allied Force in order to force then president Slobodan Milosevic to stop a military crackdown against Western-backed separatist insurgents in Kosovo province and pull out his troops. But the US Clinton administration blocked a negotiated settlement at the Rambouillet conference. Some 15,000 NATO-led soldiers remain in Kosovo, which 56 countries now recognise as an independent state after its ethnic Albanian-dominated parliament declared unilateral independence from Serbia 13 months ago. Deputy Serbian PM Ivica Dacic described Kosovo's unilateral declaration as a resumption of the NATO aggression. Ms Dacic said: "I wish to reiterate that the bombing was a result of false accusations of genocide and ethnic cleansing - the bombing of Serbia was just the culmination of pressure on the former Yugoslavia that began at the start of the 1990s." Visiting Communist Party of Greece (KKE) general secretary Aleka Papariga said: "We are in Belgrade to remember and show our respect to the Serb people for the barbaric attacks by 19 NATO countries and to renew the two peoples' friendly relations." Ms Papariga and a KKE delegation visited the home town of late president Slobodan Milosevic in Pozarevac and laid a wreath at his tomb. The KKE leader said: "We came to remember the abduction, in essence, of Slobodan Milosevic, which fully exposed the so-called European democracy. "Precisely on this continent, which supposedly has a great culture and humanism, a person was abducted before being tried with lies. "He died shortly before the outcome, reminding us that the struggle of a people never has an end," Ms Papariga declared. She called on the people of Serbia and Europe to "lead matters to the ultimate condemnation of imperialism" observing that "there is also a popular trial that inspires the peoples." Later in the day, the KKE delegation participated in an international peace conference in Belgrade which was attended by representatives of anti-imperialist groups from 45 countries. ------------------------------------ =============== Group Moderator: [email protected] page at http://magazine.sorabia.net for more informations about current situation in Serbia http://www.sorabia.net Slusajte GLAS SORABIJE nas talk internet-radio (Serbian Only) http://radio.sorabia.net Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sorabia/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sorabia/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
