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Bombing of Yugoslavia
History of Serbia
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| | 1999 | Milosevic, Slobodan | |
| 24th Mar Kosovo NATO's bombing campaign lasted from March 24 to June 11, 1999, involving up to 1,000 aircraft operating mainly from bases in Italy and aircraft carriers stationed in the Adriatic |
| 24th Mar Kosovo On the ground, the ethnic cleansing campaign by the Serbians is stepped up and within a week of the war starting, over 300,000 Kosovo Albanians had fled into neighboring Albania and Macedonia, with many thousands more displaced within Kosovo |
| 24th Mar Kosovo Yugoslavia is bombed so Serbian troops would have to leave Kosovo and be replaced by international peacekeepers in order to ensure that the Albanian refugees could return to their homes |
| May Kosovo NATO aircraft attack an Albanian refugee convoy, believing it was a Yugoslav military convoy, killing around 50 people, NATO admits its mistake 5 days later, but the Serbs accused NATO of deliberately attacking the refugees |
| 7th May Belgrade NATO bombs hit the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, killing three Chinese journalists and outraging Chinese public opinion |
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