This province's capital of Pristina wasn't so pristine; it was bombed by NATO
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Kosovo Artists  Oral History Kosovo  I fled Pristina in '99 after the events in Kosovo, after the war in Kosovo and I always ... there were thunders, there were bombs exploding in the city and outside of it and ... came we went out to celebrate in the center of town, I wasn't there actually, ... I knew that it was the capital of the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo...
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15 years on: Looking back at NATO's 'humanitarian' bombing of ...  Mar 24, 2014 ... NATO bombings of Yugoslavia in 15 dramatic photos ... The train was blown so powerfully, half a meter from the ground. I don't ... capital of Belgrade was also hit and set on fire by NATO airstrikes on May 7, 1999. ... The main objective of the campaign was to make Milosevic's forces pull out of the province.
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NATO bombing of Yugoslavia - Wikipedia  The NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's (NATO) military ... In June 1991 the University of Pritina assembly and several faculty councils were ... attitudes to the humanitarian crisis; so, few members of the public expected bombing, ... But most of the province remained under Serb control.
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The Other Side of the Story  The aim: to stage a humanitarian disaster to justify NATO bombing. ... Following is the so-called Indictment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former ... The Autonomous Province of Vojvodina and the Autonomous Region of ... At the peak of Medieval Serbia's economic and cultural prosperity, its capital was in the...
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NATO bombs Yugoslavia - Mar 24, 1999 - HISTORY.com  In 1918, Kosovo formally became a province of Serbia, and it continued as such ... Russian troops arrived in the Kosovo capital of Pristina and forced NATO into .... of the crash, hundreds of miles of pristine coastline became coated with oil and...
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Sarajevo - Wikipedia  Sarajevo (names in other languages) is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, ... For nearly four years, from 1992 to 1996, the city suffered the longest siege of ..... By the 15th Century the settlement was established as a city, named .... After the war, Sarajevo was the capital of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia...
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Kosovo War - Wikipedia  The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 ... 300+ soldiers killed (per the Yugoslav Army) ... The NATO bombing campaign has remained controversial, as it did not gain the approval of ..... of NATO, Javier Solana, announced he had directed the Supreme Allied Commander...
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A Forgotten Holocaust: US Bombing Strategy, the ... - Japan Focus  May 2, 2007 ... World War II was a landmark in the development and deployment of technologies of ... The strategic and ethical implications of the nuclear bombing of .... effective against the densely packed wooden structures of Japanese cities. .... Subsequent raids brought the devastated area of Tokyo to more than 56...
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Halifax Harbour Disaster - Dec 6 1917. A French Ship Carrying ...  See more about Halifax Explosion, The Narrows and Nova Scotia. ... Nearly a square mile of Halifax was annihilated and almost every building within 16 .... of only two classified as a level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale. ..... bomb, killed more than 1600 people and injured 9000 in Canada's worst disaster.
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World War II: Siege of Budapest | HistoryNet  So began the Siege of Budapest and the destruction of Central Europe's 'Pearl of ... By mid-September, after a fighting retreat through Transylvania, the Germans and ... In addition, the Axis' only remaining crude oil plant was in southwest Hungary. ... forces swept into the strategic city of Szkesfehrvr near Lake Balaton.
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'Hollow Tooth' peace symbol of Berlin faces deadly decay threat ...  Aug 13, 2008 ... But now Berlin's landmark Kaiser Wilhelm memorial church, ... City officials admitted yesterday that the 113-year-old building, ... at one end of Berlin's famous Kurfrstendamm shopping street, was hit by firebombs during a major air raid on the city. ... "As a ruin it is certainly the most important memorial for...
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Free Flashcards about EUROPE - StudyStack  THE OLDEST PART OF THIS NORTHERN EUROPEAN CAPITAL LIES ON STADHOLMEN, OR "CITY ISLAND", STOCKHOLM .... AFTER A 1624 FIRE, CHRISTIAN IV REPLANNED THIS CITY AND RENAMED IT CHRISTIANIA, OSLO.
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Shevardnadze hurt as car bomb goes off - CNN.com  Shevardnadze hurt as car bomb goes off. map of Georgia. August 29, 1995 ... leader Eduard Shevardnadze was slightly injured when a car blew up outside his ... Charkviani added that the country would not allow itself to be taken over by "Mafiosi." ... He said Shevardnadze had received a call from Russian President Boris...
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Celebrations as ancient bridge destroyed by Croats is reopen ...  Jul 25, 2004 ... The Old Bridge stood for 427 years until a failed Croatian theatre ... structure in November 1993, when his forces were driving Mostar's Muslim population ... structure connected two Muslim parts of the city and had no strategic value. ... That is why the bridge is so powerful a symbol in Bosnia, a country that...
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Unbroken - Louis Zamperini Story - B-24s IN COMBAT  Unbroken - Louis Zamperini Story - B-24s IN COMBAT ... and over the destruction created by preceding waves of bombers, these 15th Air Force B-24s leave Ploesti, Rumania, after one of the long series of attacks against the No. ... Close-formation flying sometimes causes casualties; .... Landing on Difficult Terrain - B-24.
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jeopardy/1714_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  THE KOSOVO SITUATION | This capital of Kosovo that dates back to medieval times was devastated by air raids & "ethnic cleansing" | Pristina. right: Marty.
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Free Flashcards about CITIES - StudyStack  UNLIKE OTHER MAJOR POLISH CITIES, THIS FORMER CAPITAL ESCAPED WWII DEVASTATION, KRAKOW .... DURING WWII, THIS POLISH CAPITAL WAS VIRTUALLY DESTROYED, WARSAW ..... CITIES LIKE COPAN THRIVED IN THIS MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATION'S CLASSIC PERIOD, UNTIL ABOUT 900, MAYA.
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'The finest Mosque in the world' - The Parthenon - Erenow  Athens was left trading instead on the allure of its distinguished classical past. ... Had it not been for the catastrophic explosion of 1687, there is a strong chance that .... and plundered from the cupboards in the cathedral where it had been stored. ... with the Venetian and Ottoman Turks constantly hovering in the background.
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NATO History  The effect upon the Alliance was dramatic. NATO soon gained a consolidated command structure with a military Headquarters based in the Parisian suburb of...
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The warnings Bosnian gravestones carry for us in 2016  1 day ago ... They had been deployed to uphold the United Nations designation of the enclave as a safe area. ... west to areas of the country still controlled by the Bosnian government. ... as the worst crime on European soil since the Second World War. ... people visiting Aleppo - hopefully reconstructed as Sarajevo has...
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Broadcasting Board of Governors 1999-2000 Annual Report  1999-2000 Broadcasting Board of Gov e r n o r s ... A Lebanese listener of VOA's Special English ... IN early January 2000, Radio Free Europe/Radio Libert y ..... countries. Jamming of RFA Vietnamese was. o b s e rved as early as January 23, and interf e re n c e of VOA ..... Even before NATO bombs began falling on Serbia.