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| Serbia marks bombing anniversary | |
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| Air raid sirens have sounded and church bells have rung across Serbia as the country marks 10 years since the start of Nato's bombing campaign. | |
| Serbs have been gathering at sites where people were killed and government ministers were expected to lay wreaths. | |
| Nato bombed Serbia for 11 weeks in an effort to push Serbian forces out of the province of Kosovo, accusing them of atrocities against ethnic Albanians. | Nato bombed Serbia for 11 weeks in an effort to push Serbian forces out of the province of Kosovo, accusing them of atrocities against ethnic Albanians. |
| Hundreds of Serbs were killed as bombs struck military and civilian targets. | Hundreds of Serbs were killed as bombs struck military and civilian targets. |
| I think that goals which Nato wanted to achieve could have been done with less energy and citizens could be spared from what happened Dragan SutanovacSerbian Defence Minister href="/1/hi/world/europe/7960116.stm"> Scars of bombing still pain Serbs class="" href="/1/hi/uk/7953759.stm"> Audio slideshow: Bombed Belgrade | |
| Damaged buildings can still be seen in the capital, Belgrade, and in Pristina, now capital of the self-declared independent state of Kosovo. | Damaged buildings can still be seen in the capital, Belgrade, and in Pristina, now capital of the self-declared independent state of Kosovo. |
| Serbian Defence Minister Dragan Sutanovac said he had not changed his mind about the bombing, which he considered unnecessary. | Serbian Defence Minister Dragan Sutanovac said he had not changed his mind about the bombing, which he considered unnecessary. |
| "Then and now I think it was a great mistake of the Nato and that the bombing shouldn't have happened," he told Reuters news agency. | "Then and now I think it was a great mistake of the Nato and that the bombing shouldn't have happened," he told Reuters news agency. |
| "I think that goals which Nato wanted to achieve could have been done with less energy and citizens could be spared from what happened." | "I think that goals which Nato wanted to achieve could have been done with less energy and citizens could be spared from what happened." |
| In Kosovo, however, Prime Minister Hashim Thaci hailed the anniversary of the bombing as "a great historic day." | |
| Nato's intervention "opened a new chapter in Kosovo's history... the chapter of freedom and the building of meaningful democracy." | |
| Nato has no special plans to mark the 10th anniversary of the war against Yugoslavia, according to Reuters. | Nato has no special plans to mark the 10th anniversary of the war against Yugoslavia, according to Reuters. |
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