Serbia remembers the victims, the
destruction, and the terror of what Belgrade calls NATO's
"brutal aggression" 26 years ago, with the bombing campaign that
ended the Kosovo war in the spring of 1999, the last of the
armed conflicts that shook the Balkans in the 1990s with the
dramatic disintegration of the Yugoslav Socialist Federal
Republic. Rallies and commemorative ceremonies are scheduled for
today in various locations, particularly in Belgrade, where the
remains of the buildings that housed the Ministry of Defence and
the Yugoslav General Staff, which were destroyed in the
bombings, can still be seen in the city centre. A project calls
for an American company to construct a complex in their place
that includes a luxury hotel and a private residence.
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