🧿'The Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals' held the annual memorial event for the 27th anniversary of the illegal NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. Like last year, I attended, more material soon.

You may recognize professor Chossudovsky and Dragoljub Bosnić.

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🧿 At today's memorial on the occasion of the 27th anniversary of the illegal NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, Russian general Leonid Ivashov sent a video message due to his inability to fly in for the second year in a row [due to western sanctions].

The retired Colonel General, who was one of the organizers of the 1999 "March to Pristina [airport]" at the end of the conflict; had some choice words about how those events, 27 years ago, are still reverberating in Iran and the world today, and how the same enemy continues to wage war against humanity.

Original with Serbian subtitles provided by 'The Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals', and "automated" English subtitles provided graciously by Wes, specifically for you.

Very poignant speech with many takeaways, highly recommended.

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🧿 The flower-laying ceremony for the military and police casualties on the occasion of the 27th anniversary of the illegal NATO bombing of Serbia, earlier today.

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🧿 Some more details about why it matters, historically.

On this day in 1999, NATO began bombing its illegal bombing campaign of Yugoslavia without permission from the UN Security Council.

After years of supporting right-wing nationalist forces to undermine and weaken the integrity of Yugoslavia, NATO begun its campaign to break up the socialist state. Though it claimed to be intervening to stop ethnic cleansing, the Assistant to US Secretary of Defense Strobe Talbott revealed the real reason for the war:

"It was Yugoslavia's resistance to the broader trends of political and economic reform, not the plight of Kosovar Albanians, that best explains NATO's war.”
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NATO openly bragged about its destruction of Yugoslavia’s infrastructure, with its spokesperson Jaime Shea proudly saying in 1999 “And the fact that the lights went out in 70% of the country…we can turn the power off whenever we need to and whenever we want to.”

- Afshin Rattansi
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