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Witness History

Nato bombs Serbian state television headquarters

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In April 1999 Nato bombed the Serbian state TV station in Belgrade, killing 16 people.

It was part of a military campaign to force Serbia to withdraw from Kosovo.

Mike Lanchin has been speaking to one of the survivors, Dragan Šuković, a TV technician, who was working at the station that night.

This programme was first broadcast in 2015.

(Photo: The Radio Television of Serbia building. Credit: Getty Images)

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0:29.1

Sounds. Hello you're listening to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:39.2

Today we're going back 25 years to 1999 when NATO bombed the Serbian State Television Station in Belgrade.

0:48.6

It was part of NATO's military campaign against Serbian President Slobidon Milosovich.

0:54.8

In 2015, Mike Lanchen spoke to a TV technician who was working at the station that night.

1:02.2

The destruction here inside the television station is considerable.

1:06.0

Offices are full of shattered glass, papers are blowing everywhere,

1:10.0

and videotape is fluttering from the branches of the trees outside the broken windows.

1:15.0

The day of the bombing I was being in New Zealand Control Room and New York Control Room is on and first floor you can see it in the in that first floor

1:27.1

with some cables hanging down yes yes in the first floor

1:30.3

TV technician Dragun Sukovic shows me the damage still clearly visible on the four-story TV building in Central World Grade that was hit by NATO's precision bomb back in 1999. Dragon was one of the few people. is in the

1:45.0

1999. Dragon was one of the few people who survived the attack.

1:47.0

The center of the explosion is in the master control.

1:50.0

My position is five, six meters to master control room.

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