Serbia still bears the scars of NATO's bombing campaign but still remains opposed to the independence of Kosovo. Image AFPFrom Yahoo News/AFP:
BELGRADE, (AFP) – A divided Serbia marks the 10th anniversary Tuesday of NATO's bombing campaign against it over Kosovo with commemorations organised by its pro-West government and a separate nationalist rally.
Serbian President Boris Tadic described the NATO intervention as a "tragic military campaign" in a speech on the eve of the anniversary before the United Nations Security Council in New York.
NATO launched the strikes on March 24, 1999 -- without Security Council backing -- after late president Slobodan Milosevic refused to sign up to a peace deal to end his forces' violent crackdown on separatist Kosovo Albanians.
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