Vulin: Victims of NATO aggression must not be forgotten

BELGRADE – Speaking at a meeting organized by Belgrade University students to commemorate 15 years since the start of the 1999 NATO air campaign against Yugoslavia, Serbian Minister for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Aleksandar Vulin said that the victims of the aggression must not be forgotten and that NATO has not apologized for bombing Serbia.

One day, when you young people are asked whether Serbia should join NATO, remember Bojana Tosovic, born in Merdare, who was only six months in her father’s hands when she was killed by NATO missiles’ shrapnels, Vulin said while addressing the Faculty of Law students late on Tuesday.

He said that some decided to speak out 15 years after Bojana’s death, faced with the consequences of the fire they fueled in Kosovo and now being able to hear its echoes in the Crimea, northern Italy, Catalonia and Scotland.

“They told us and admitted that they bombed us with depleted uranium and unloaded tons of cluster bombs. They did not say where. I want them to say where they poisoned our waters and air, so we can purge the evil so no child should suffer from it. They did not say that they were sorry, but they did say everything else,” said Vulin.

Bishop Jovan Lipljanski, vicar bishop to the Serbian Patriarch Irinej, asked where can the truth why Serbia was bombed be found.

He pointed out that 800,000 people were killed in the greatest crime that occurred after the Holocaust, in only 100 days, in Rwanda in 1994, and NATO had not fired a single bullet to save the people there.

The bishop also said that during the bombing of Libya, former U.S. envoy to Kosovo Christopher Hill said that NATO's interest in 1999 was to enter Kosovo, and that they termed the operation a...