Posted on 03/28/2018 6:28:34 PM PDT by marshmallow
More than 3,000 Serbs came together on Saturday at the Serbian Orthodox Church’s official ceremony in honor of the victims of the 1999 NATO bombing in Yugoslavia. The victims were remembered throughout the country, but the main ceremony took place in the town of Aleksinac in southern Serbia, often known as “Serbian Hiroshima,” reports the Serbian Orthodox Church.
On the day of the 19th anniversary of the tragedy, His Grace Bishop Arseny of Niš served a panikhida in memory of all the victims and offered a homily. The clergy and representatives of the president of the republic laid flowers at the monument where the prayers were read. The ceremony was attended by residents of Aleksinac and the surrounding areas.
The city hosted a state ceremony in the evening in the central town square under the slogan, “We will forgive if we can. We will forget only when we’re gone.” Footage of the bombing was shown on huge screens, after which a choir performed a memorial prayer, and thousands of people lit candles on the square.
Aleksinac, a small mining town in southern Serbia with a population of about 16,000, was one of the first to suffer from the NATO bombings of 1999. It has never had a military facility. As a result of the airstrike, 14 were killed and another 50 seriously injured. Subsequent airstrikes were carried out against the city in May and June 1999. Dozens of houses were destroyed and almost all industrial facilities were destroyed. Many civilians were killed or injured.
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Yep, distract from his own scandals by wagging the Dog.
Memory Eternal to those Orthodox Christians murdered by the non believing US political machine: Clinton, Albright, Weasly Clark.
I think it was basically a combo of factors. On the “Big Toon’s” or rather the Big Dickhead’s part, a desire to get Monica off the news, and to get a legacy for himself. In that he basically coincided with the aforementioned globalist NeoCon crapheads.
Yes, I will never forget the shock of that day.
You are right on all counts. The Balkans have been a very troubled area since Mehmet crossed the Bosphorus in 1453.
Another undeclared war that our western European “allies” didn’t have the balls to conduct themselves.
I wouldn’t say that about Afghanistan.
I agree for the initial 9/11 retaliation. But the ensuing “nation building” BS nay.
I agree we should not be in the nation/government building business.
All the thinking these people want freedom should not be our concern.
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