13.05.1999.
TWO KILLED IN ATTACK
ON BRIDGE, CLUSTER BOMBS DROPPED IN DOWNTOWN NIS. In the night between May 11 and
May 12, NATO attacked several towns throughout Serbia. The attacks continued during the
day time in the region of Nis, Kraljevo, Kragujevac, Pirot, and Kosovo.
Two people were killed, and two wounded in the NATO attack on the bridge
in downtown Vladicin Han, in southern Serbia in the night between May 11 and May 12.
Targets in the broader region of Pristina were under constant and heavy
NATO attacks for almost 30 hours, where 30 detonations were heard from midnight till the
morning hours. The Pristina Media Center reported that NATO was constantly bombing the
entire region of Kosovo in the night between May 11 and May 12. The same source said that
NATO launched attacks in the region of Podujevo, Kosovska Mitrovica, Urosevac, Pec, and
Lipljane. In the region of Kosovsa Mitrovica, the air raids continued during the day.
Between 2:45 p.m and 3:17 p.m on May 12, NATO dropped numerous cluster bombs on
Nis, and targeted the Nis airport and Jugopetrol storehouse in the industrial
part of the town. Several cluster bombs fall on the most densely populated parts of the
town. At least six people had to be hospitalized, local medical source said. The streets
are closed, and electronic media are repeating calls to the population to remain in
shelters. On May 7, NATO cluster bombs were dropped on the center of Nis, killing 15 and
wounding 60 people.
During the night, 15 missiles were launched on the region of Paracin. For
the eighth time, NATO launched an attack on the bridge on the confluence of the rivers
Kosanica and Toplica, near Kursumlija. NATO also attacked the overpass near Horgos, over
the international Subotica-Segedin railway.
In the region of Kraljevo during the night, NATO again bombed the Beopetrol
storehouse in the village of Bogutovac, while four explosions rocked Biljanovac.
The region of Kraljevo was targeted again around 1:00 p.m. on May 12.
In the night between May 11 and May 12, one missile exploded between the
Belgrade municipality of Grocka and the village of Begaljica, 20 kilometers from Belgrade.
BOMBARDMENT & DIPLOMACY CONTINUE SAYS SOLANA. On May 12, NATO
Secretary General Havier Solana said he was even more convinced that NATO had to continue
the "constant and heavy" bombing of Yugoslavia, in the aim of returning all the
refugees to Kosovo, halting the violence, the withdrawal of Yugoslav troops, the
establishment of "a multi-ethnic and democratic Kosovo," and reaching a
political agreement for the future.
Solana, currently in Skopje, told the press in the NATO Headquarters in
Brussels via TV link from Skopje, that he very much hoped that diplomatic activity would
continue over the next few days, and that a "U.N. Security Council resolution on
Kosovo would be adopted, which would include the principles of the G-8 meeting."
NATO's civilian spokesman Jamie Shea said that on May 14, the G-8 foreign
ministries's political directors should "discuss the text of the U.N. Security
Council draft Resolution on Kosovo."
NATO representatives said Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic did not
achieve his goals in Kosovo, since there were still clashes between the Yugoslav security
forces and the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army. Shea stressed that NATO "has
started delivering severe blows to Milosevic in Kosovo, which would intensify in the next
few days."
11.05.1999.
YUGOSLAV ARMY COMMAND
RELEASES STATEMENT
BELGRADE - The Supreme Command of the Yugoslav Army on Monday released the
following statement:
1) Since actions in Kosovo and Metohija against the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army have
been completed, the Supreme Command has ordered return from Kosovo and Metohija of part of
the army and police units. This decision is being realized starting from 22:00 hrs on May
9.
2) At the same time, it has been decided that, once agreement is reached with the United
Nations on sending a U.N. mission to Kosovo and Metohija, and the outside threat to the
territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is thus ended, it will then be
possible to realize the plan, under which military and police forces in Kosovo and
Metohija will be reduced to the peace-time level from before the onset of aggression.
3) In the situation of a good securing of the state border, which prevents infiltration of
terrorist bands from Albania and Macedonia, the peace-time level of army and police organs
guarantees, according to the official evaluation of competent military and police organs,
the security of citizens and safety of property in the entire territory of Kosovo and
Metohija. Individual terrorist attacks by smaller groups of the broken up so-called Kosovo
Liberation Army, which cannot be ruled out, are within the domain of the responsibility
and activities of regular organs.
NATO RAIDS BELGRADE'S PRVA ISKRA CHEMICAL COMPLEX
BELGRADE - NATO planes raided the management building of the Prva Iskra chemical
complex in Belgrade's Baric district at around 11 p.m. on Monday, the city's information
centre said. NATO planes bombed also Belgrade's outlying suburb of Zuce. One missile fell
outside Belgrade's Obrenovac district on the Obrenovac-Valjevo road, but did not explode.
Planes buzzed over the broader Belgrade area at around 11 p.m., triggering heavy fire from
the air-defence systems.
ONE WOMAN LIGHTLY WOUNDED IN NATO RAID ON OBRENOVAC AREA NEAR BELGRADE
OBRENOVAC - One woman was lightly wounded in a NATO raid on the area of Obrenovac, some
20km southwest of Belgrade, at around 11 p.m. local time on Monday, the local emergency
centre reported. A missile which did not go off damaged her house in the village of Zvecka
near Obrenovac, landing on the route linking Obrenovac with the western Serbian town of
Valjevo.
NATO TARGETS RAILWAY STATION IN PANCEVO NEAR BELGRADE
PANCEVO - NATO planes targetted the area of Pancevo north of Belgrade at 11 p.m.
on Monday, the district civil protection command said.
Several missiles fell in the area of the "Aerodrom" railway station, damaging
adjacent residential buildings, the source said.
TWO SLIGHTLY HURT AS NATO RAIDS SERBIA'S SMEDEREVO
SMEDEREVO - Two civilians were slightly injured in a NATO raid on Smederevo on the Danube
east of Belgrade at around 11 p.m. on Monday. The NATO missile that injured them heavily
damaged also a nearby residential building and shattered windows on houses wider in the
area, according to the local civil defence command.
NATO BOMBS OIL DEPOT IN SERBIA'S SOMBOR
SOMBOR - NATO planes raided the depot of the Naftagas Promet oil company in the industrial
zone of Sombor in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's northern Vojvodina province at 11:15
p.m. on Monday.
NATO AIRCRAFT TARGET TELEVISION, RADIO RELAY NEAR SUBOTICA
SUBOTICA - NATO aircraft raided for the second time the television and radio
relay at Crveno Selo near Subotica, Serbia's northern province of Vojvodina, at 11.15 p.m.
local time on Monday. The relay was first attacked last Saturday. According to initial
reports, extensive damage was caused.
AGGRESSOR NATO AIRCRAFT STRIKE AGAIN AT INDUSTRIAL AREA OF NIS
NIS - NATO aircraft struck again at the industrial area of the southeastern Serbian city
of Nis at around 2:45 a.m. local time Tuesday. Three powerful explosions sounded in the
broader area of the northwestern city district. The Yugoslav anti-aircraft defense was
very active.
SECTION OF BELGRADE-NIS HIGHWAY DAMAGED IN NATO AIR STRIKE
VELIKA PLANA - Aggressor NATO aircraft fired four missiles on an overpass on the
Belgrade-Nis highway near the town of Velika Plana, 90 km southeast of Belgrade, at 11:15
p.m. local time Monday. The Velika Plana civil defense crisis staff told Tanjug that a
traffic lane leading to Nis from Belgrade was destroyed, while the other side was left
undamaged. A railway line running underneath and linking Velika Plana and Belgrade via
Mala Krsna was also damaged in the attack. Both highway and railway traffic on the Velika
Plana-Mala Krsna-Belgrade line were suspended.
NATO AIRCRAFT AGAIN RAID SERBIAN POLICE BUILDING IN VALJEVO
VALJEVO - NATO aircraft launched their tenth raid on Valjevo, western Serbia, just before
11 p.m. local time on Monday. The aircraft targetted for the second time in the past three
days the Serbian police building situated in the very heart of the town. The building was
levelled to the ground. A dense column of smoke is rising above Valjevo, while nearby
streets are covered in mortar, glass and fragments of bricks. The local health care centre
and housing and other facilities situated in the vicinity of the Serbian police building
were also badly damaged in the raid.
NATO TARGETS SERBIA'S SJENICA, MT KOPAONIK, RASKA AREA
KRALJEVO - NATO planes bombed the areas of Sjenica, Mt Kopaonik and Raska during the
night, the local information centre said on Tuesday. The aggressors fired three missiles
on the Sjenica Plateau and five on Mt Kopaonik, while telephone lines with the Raska area
are down. NATO AIRCRAFT LAUNCH SEVEN MISSILES ON AREA OF KOSOVO POLJE NEAR
PRISTINA
PRISTINA - NATO aircraft launched its fiercest raid ever on the wider area of Kosovo
Polje, 6km souhwest of Kosovo and Metohija's chief city of Pristina, firing seven missiles
on it. The aircraft targetted exclusively civilian facilities in the attack that commenced
at 6.40 p.m. and ended at 7 p.m. local time on Monday, causing exensive damage to them. No
one was killed in the raid on Serb-populated Kosovo Polje but it is believed that some
people were wounded because of the fierceness of the attack.
NATO AIRCRAFT STRIKE MOST AT METOHIJA, HIT CIVILIAN TARGETS
PRISTINA - Aggressor NATO aircraft struck at civilian targets alone in the Yugoslav
republic of Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province again Monday, targeting especially the
Metohija area that was hit by about 20 missiles.The Western aggressors struck several
times at the solely ethnic Albanian-populated Srbica municipality, the broader area of
Decane and the village of Gornje Prekaze in the Klina municipality. The ethnic
Albanian-populated village of Belacevac in the Obilic municipality was hit by several
missiles at 4:45 p.m. local time Monday. Sometime after 6:30 p.m. local time Monday, the
aggressor aircraft fired several missiles on the Lebane locality and on the village of
Trudna, about 15 km northeast of Kosovo-Metohija capital Pristina, which was the target of
another NATO attack Monday morning. At the same time, NATO aircraft fired one missile on
the village of Bariljevo in the Podujevo municipality, Mt. Cicevica west of Pristina and
the Grmija picknick grounds outside Pristina. Gazivode, Yugoslavia's biggest storage lake
dam, on the road linking the town of Kosovska Mitrovica with the town of Rozaje in the
Yugoslav republic of Montenegro, was hit by several missiles at about 1 p.m. Monday.
YUGOSLAV ARMY SAYS NATO DID NOT ACHIEVE A SINGLE OBJECTIVE
BELGRADE - Yugoslav Third Army Commander General Nebojsa Pavkovic and Pristina Corps
Commander General Vladimir Lazarevic said on Monday NATO has not achieved a single one of
its military objectives since its started its aggression on March 24. Pavkovic and
Lazarevic inspected forces on the ground that have been defending the country from the
NATO criminals and commended the officers and men for their outstanding performance,
Serbian Radio and Television said. They said that, while most of the world is making
efforts to settle problems in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province
peacefully, NATO is daily committing the worst crimes against humanity, murdering innocent
civilians and demolishing civilian facilities.
NATO BOMBING DESTROYS, DAMAGES 27 BRIDGES IN YUGOSLAVIA
JAGODINA - Serbian road management authority Director Predrag Krkic said Monday that 27
bridges, seven of them major, had been destroyed or damaged by NATO air strikes since the
outset of the aggression on Yugoslavia last March 24. Krkic cited the major bridges as the
following: across the Velika Morava river near the Mijatovac village between Jagodina and
Cuprija on the Belgrade - Nis highway, central Serbia, across the Sava river at Ostruznica
near Belgrade, and across the Danube the three bridges in Novi Sad - Sloboda, Zezeljev and
Petrovaradin - one linking Smederevo and Kovin and one near Beska. Large or small, all
bridges are important, Krkic told a Tanjug reporter, adding that despite devastation and
the aggressors' plans, traffic has not stopped but is taking alternate routes. Damages are
being assessed by Yugoslav and Serbian commissions and plans are underway for repairing
damaged bridges and building new ones, he said. |
