April 19, 2008

Russia is to start mine-clearing operations in Serbia. Work will begin on Monday after Russia’s Emergency Situations Minister Sergey Shoigu and Serbia’s Trade Minister Predrag Bubalo reached a deal in Belgrade.

Russia will pay the full cost of the clean-up, estimated at around $US 35 million.

It is believed that unexploded devices from NATO’s bombing of Serbia in 1999 as well as landmines from the many Yugoslav Wars between 1991 and 2001 may still lie buried in Serbian soil.
Some of them may hamper the construction of the Serbian part of South Stream gas pipeline.
Meanwhile, Russia's humanitarian aid programme in Kosovo is about to enter a new phase.
Medical supplies and equipment as well as up to 10 thousand tonnes of wheat will be delivered to Serbian enclaves.
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The Real Butchers Of Serbia: Clinton, Clark, NATO

What of the U.S. bombing of Radio Television Serbia, the cluster bombing of the Nis marketplace, the use of depleted uranium munitions and the targeting of petrochemical plants causing toxic and chemical waste to pour into the Danube River, or the deliberate targeting of civilian transport? As Jeremy Scahill adeptly points out,

"What the corporate media overwhelmingly ignores in Milosevic’s death is what they ignored in his life as well—his intimate knowledge of U.S. war crimes in Yugoslavia. While Milosevic was undoubtedly a war criminal who deserved to be tried for his crimes, he was also the only man in the unique position of being able to expose and detail the full extent of the U.S. role in the bloody disintegration of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. In fact, that is precisely what he was fighting to do at his war crimes trial when he died."

The Real Butchers Of Serbia: Clinton, Clark, NATO