Human Rights Watch Press Release: New Figures on Civilian Deaths in Kosovo War
February 8, 2000
"A 79-page Human Rights Watch report released yesterday documents that the number of incidents in which civilians were killed in the NATO air campaign in Yugoslavia is at least three times as high as what the Pentagon has claimed."
http://www.hrw.org/hrw/press/2000/02/nato207.htm

Serbs accuse NATO of bombing Albanians fleeing Kosovo
© CNN, 04/14/99
As many as 75 people were killed and 25 were injured when NATO missiles hit two convoys of ethnic Albanians leaving western Kosovo on Wednesday, Serb authorities said.
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9904/14/refugees/

War in the Balkans: ‘Collateral damage’ lies dying in a shattered Belgrade hospital
By Robert Fisk, © The Independent, 14 April 1999
Robert Fisk’s article vividly describes the consequences of a NATO attack on Banjica, a suburb of Belgrade, on April 13, 1999. Fisk writes about a hospital that has been damaged as a result of its proximity to the targeted sites, and about the patients which have been hurt by the shards of glass from the blasted windows. Fisk uses this sad occurrence to discuss the NATO statement that "the alliance goes to ‘extraordinary lengths’ to avoid civilian casualties," concluding that the ‘extraordinary lengths’ are not long enough.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Europe/damage140499.shtml

Milena's story
By Robert Fisk, © The Independent, 25 November 1999
Robert Fisk describes his return to a small Serbian town of Surdulica, where last May NATO bombed a hospital housing a number of Serbian refugees from Croatia. This is a story of one of the victims, a young woman called Milena who was killed during the attack. She left a diary behind her, describing her great love for a local radio DJ, Dejan. Robert Fisk investigates the circumstances of her death and whether it could have been prevented. He suggests that the refugees previously living in an old school had been moved to the hospital to shield the soldiers that lived on the floor below.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Europe/fiskinkosovo251199.shtml

NATO rejects cease-fire, resumes bombing Yugoslavia
© CNN, 6 April 1999
The article covers the reactions of Western politicians and military figures to Milosevic’s proposal of an open-ended cease fire during Orthodox Easter. It also recapitulates the "progress" made during the previous night of bombing. Hit targets included Pancevo, Surcin, Lucani, Podgorica, Novi Sad oil refinery and its only remaining bridge over Danube. An entire paragraph is dedicated to the town of Aleksinac where NATO bombs hit a civillian apartment complex as well as a medical clinic.
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9904/06/nato.attack.04/

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