Original title: On the 23rd anniversary of NATO’s bombing of the Yugoslavia, the US embassy in Russia was projected again: We will not forget it!
(Observer Network News) “We will never forget, we will never forgive, we will not allow it in the future, our 200 million people are with the Serbs!”
According to reports from Russia Today and other Russian media on March 24, local time, on the eve of the 23rd anniversary of NATO’s bombing of the Yugoslav Federation, light projections reappeared on the building of the US embassy in Moscow, showing solidarity with Serbia and condemning NATO’s bombing of the Yugoslavia in 1999. A brutal act of killing and wounding thousands of innocent civilians.
Video source: @Russia Today RT
According to a video posted by netizens on social media, on the night of March 23, someone projected a light on the wall of the US Embassy in Moscow and wrote: “March 24, 1999, which lasted 78 days, we will never forget, We will never forgive, we will no longer allow it, our 200 million are with the Serbs!”
Below these words, the Russian flag and the Serbian flag appear side by side.
It is worth mentioning that it is not the first time that the US embassy building in Moscow has been projected with lights. On the evening of March 2, the cover of the 1995 edition of the US “Time” magazine was projected onto the wall of the US embassy in Moscow. The cover of this edition records the historical scene of NATO’s intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina, bombing the Serbs.
Twenty-three years ago, the US-led NATO launched an air strike code-named “Allied Forces” against the Yugoslav alliance without the approval of the UN Security Council.
From March 24 to June 10, NATO bombed the Yugoslav League for 78 days under the guise of resolving the so-called “human rights crisis” in Kosovo. At that time, 13 of the 19 NATO member states participated in the air strike, and the remaining 6 countries participated in the logistics support throughout the process.
According to statistics from the Serbian government, in this protracted bombing, NATO dispatched 1,150 fighter aircraft, carried out more than 2,300 air strikes, and dropped nearly 420,000 bombs totaling 22,000 tons, including depleted uranium bombs and cluster bombs. These bombs dropped in Serbia have not yet been cleared. The depleted uranium bombs dropped by NATO led to a surge in the incidence of cancer and leukemia after the war.
After the bombing, more than 2,500 innocent civilians (including 82 children) were killed in Serbia, more than 12,500 were injured, more than 1 million were displaced, and more than 2 million lost their livelihoods. In addition, more than 25,000 residential houses, 14 airports, 39 health care facilities, 18 kindergartens, 69 schools, 176 cultural monuments, 44 bridges, 470 kilometers of roads and 595 kilometers of railways in Serbia were bombed by NATO. Lost billions of dollars.
The Chinese embassy in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was also bombed during a NATO airstrike, injuring dozens of people and killing three journalists on the spot.
NATO air strikes on Yugoslavia Source: CCTV MilitarySince then, Serbia has held commemorative activities in different forms almost every year.
On the evening of the 24th, the Serbian city of Kralevo held a national commemorative event. Serbian President Vucic, Prime Minister Brnabic, Speaker Dacic and key government officials attended the event with the theme of “If we can, we will. Choose to forgive; but only when we die can we forget!” commemoration.
Vucic said in his speech: “23 years ago, NATO launched a brutal and unforgivable attack on a small innocent country. We will not yield. We will always cherish the memory of the innocent people killed in the bombing, and we will never give up. Will forget what NATO did to us.”
Vucic said at another commemorative event on the same day: “There is a country in Europe that will never surrender in the face of hegemony, and that is Serbia. We hold activities to mourn those who were killed in the bombing, what happened to them and their loved ones. We feel the pain. Force can cause harm to our country and people, but our hearts will never give in. The people of Serbia will remember the compatriots killed in the NATO bombing and the crimes of NATO, and those who participated in the bombing should be responsible for their actions ashamed.”
commemorateThe Serbian Warrior Square, where the event was held, gathered many people who participated in the mourning eventIt is worth mentioning that just the day before, Vucic condemned in an interview that NATO bombed the Yugoslavia 23 years ago, but now accuses Russia of “invading” Ukraine, “How stupid and shameless. For them , the morals and values that are often talked about simply don’t exist.”
After the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Western countries set off round after round of sanctions against Russia, and an anti-Russian wave swept across Europe. But Serbia has always refused to sanction Russia and has become an “isolated European island”. Vucic also said recently that Serbia hopes to strengthen cooperation with Russia to expand existing oil and gas storage depots in Serbia more quickly, and build new oil and gas storage depots.
The Serbian people also took a clear stand in support of Russia in the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
Serbia voted in favor of condemning Russia at the United Nations General Assembly on March 2, and Serbs, who feared the government might fall to the West, organized Europe’s first and largest pro-Russian march on March 4. People gathered in front of the statue of the last Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian embassy, held up the national flags of the two countries and a picture of Putin, sang the national anthems of the two countries, and the crowd chanted: “Serbia and Russia, brothers forever”.
In the second round of the Europa League round of 16 on March 17, local time, Serbia’s home fans held up six huge banners, and counted more than 20 countries that the United States and NATO directly (or indirectly) participated in the invasion by year. One of the banners read, “What we want to say is, give peace a chance!”
Previously, NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg had claimed that Russia had caused “death, pain and great destruction” to Ukraine and asked China to speak out against Russia.
In response, the spokesperson of the Chinese Mission to the European Union responded: “Don’t worry, the Chinese people will never forget who bombed our embassy in the Yugoslavia, and we also sympathize with the pain suffered by other relevant countries. Tramplers of international law. It is not qualified to tell the victims what justice is. As a product of the Cold War and the world‘s largest military alliance, NATO has continued to expand its regions and territories, and what role NATO has played in world peace and stability, NATO should reflect upon itself.”