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Witness History

Nato bombs Serbian TV

Witness History

BBC

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, History

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2019

⏱️ 10 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 Suchovic, a TV technician, who was working at the station that night.

Photo: The damage caused by the Nato bombing on the TV station in Belgrade (courtesy of Duco Tellegen, 2015)

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Hello and welcome to the witness history podcast from the BBC World Service with me

1:16.3

Mike Lanchin. Today we're going back to April of 1999 when NATO bombed the

1:22.2

Serbian State Television Station in Belgrade.

1:26.0

It was part of NATO's military campaign against Serbudon Milosovich.

1:32.3

The destruction here inside the television station is considerable.

1:36.0

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

1:40.0

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

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