20 years on, Serbian victims of NATO bombings feel forgotten

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On the outskirts of the southern Serbian town of Surdulica a black cross looms above a grave covered in a tangle of weeds.

This is the final resting place of some of the hundreds of civilians killed by the NATO air attacks launched 20 years ago this Sunday, a tragedy survivors feel is as forgotten as the overgrown burial ground."No one except for journalists has called us or asked if we need any help, how we feel. Nobody," said 34-year-old Ivana Mitic.

For 78-days, NATO aircraft bombed Serbian military and civilian targets across the country, killing some 500 civilians according to Human Rights Watch. The victims included Serbs, ethnic Albanians in Kosovo and Roma. Speaking in Brussels several days later, a spokesman for the alliance said:"One bomb went astray... Things like this can happen and in fact they happened."

Among the mistakes NATO admitted to was a strike on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade that killed three people. The US said outdated maps had led the pilot to the wrong target.

 

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