[The year was 1999: Democrat Bill Clinton, he of Monica Lewinsky fame, was US President. US General Wesley Clark, a Knight Commander of the British Empire (the medal for which reads, "For God and the Empire"), West Point Valedictorian, NATO Commander of the bombing of Yugoslavia, and, as such, was and is responsible for the deaths of 16 Yugoslav media workers, in the destruction by NATO of the Serbian television and radio center, described in the following dispatch. Clark went on to run, as an "antiwar" liberal, in the Democratic Party Presidential Primaries of 2004. It is amazing how everything in bourgeois party politics in the US, is drenched in blood. -- YM]
BELGRADE, April 23 [1999] (Reuters) - NATO air strikes blasted Serbian state television off the air on Friday, just hours after Belgrade offered a peace proposal to allow an "international presence" in war-torn Kosovo under U.N. auspices. Belgrade residents reported hearing a "huge explosion" at 2:04 a.m. (0004 GMT) and said NATO had hit the RTS television building, taking all channels off the air. "The RTS building has been hit," said one witness. "There is smoke everywhere and there are people inside the building."
Nato was purposely targeting the building filled with people - and NOT the relay tower standing next to it. It was a murder - plain and simple.
Dragan Covic, head of Belgrade's Civil Defence, told Belgrade television station Studio B, situated elsewhere in the capital, that there were injured people. "We are working to save anyone we can," he said.
Witnesses said the newer of two RTS buildings was hit. They added there were no flames but thick smoke was billowing from the premises. RTS was showing a re-run of an interview by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic with a U.S. television station when screens went dead.
NATO commanders warned earlier this month that they considered the television a legitimate target in their air strike campaign, now almost a month old. They accused it of broadcasting hatred and lies. It was the third night running that NATO had struck at a nerve centre of Serb power [sic!]. On Thursday it bombed a Milosevic residence -- unoccupied at the time -- and on Wednesday it destroyed the headquarters of his Serbian Socialist Party. Friday's attack was an uncompromising response to Milosevic's apparent peace feeler on Thursday evening, on the eve of a NATO summit in Washington.
Nato was purposely targeting the building filled with people - and NOT the relay tower standing next to it. It was a murder - plain and simple.
Dragan Covic, head of Belgrade's Civil Defence, told Belgrade television station Studio B, situated elsewhere in the capital, that there were injured people. "We are working to save anyone we can," he said.
Witnesses said the newer of two RTS buildings was hit. They added there were no flames but thick smoke was billowing from the premises. RTS was showing a re-run of an interview by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic with a U.S. television station when screens went dead.
NATO commanders warned earlier this month that they considered the television a legitimate target in their air strike campaign, now almost a month old. They accused it of broadcasting hatred and lies. It was the third night running that NATO had struck at a nerve centre of Serb power [sic!]. On Thursday it bombed a Milosevic residence -- unoccupied at the time -- and on Wednesday it destroyed the headquarters of his Serbian Socialist Party. Friday's attack was an uncompromising response to Milosevic's apparent peace feeler on Thursday evening, on the eve of a NATO summit in Washington.
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