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	Surdulica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Surdulica (Сурдулица) is a town and municipality situated in the southeast of Serbia (approx.
		There is a medium sized Vlasina lake close to Surdulica.
		NATO spokesman Jamie Shea committed that on 27.04.1999 (during NATO campaign against FRY) one NATO aircraft bombed "small residential area" in Surdulica by mistake.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Surdulica (259 words)

	PHOTO-Surdulica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		NATO war planes on Tuesday fired 15 missiles on civilian facilities in the centre of the town of Surdulica.
		Surdulica city council head Miodrag Stoiljkovic said that he feared that the death toll is not final because the ruins of another 18 totally demolished houses have yet to be searched.
		Eyewitnesses said that at least 20 members of the Miric family were in a shelter in the celler of the totally razed house of Aleksandar Miric.
	www.balkanpeace.org /library/gallery/surdulica/index.html (191 words)

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		This house consisting of the ground floor and the upper floor and built of solid material is situated in the close proximity of, and opposite to, the patient ward and first-aid station within the Army barracks compound.
		He has noticed that in all inspected houses there is a large quantity of fragmented material scattered around after the bombing of the facilities within the Army barracks compound, also that there is a thick layer of dust and of other material which fell in the backyards and in other parts of the houses.
		It has been noted that at the time of the bombing of the town of Surdulica and the mentioned residential areas of this town, as well as at the time of the investigation, the weather was fine: these was no precipitation and it was sunny and partially cloudy.
	www.balkan-archive.org.yu /kosovo_crisis/destruction/white_book2/02.htm (9167 words)

	Grad Nis
		SURDULICA - Up to last night 16 bodies were taken out of the ruins, caused by the yesterday's NATO attack on Surdulica.
		In the NATO announcement in Brussels, the Alliance at first denied the claims that civilian targets were aimed at in the attack on Surdulica.
		The NATO spokesman Jamy Shea announced, however, that a residential area in Surdulica was hit and that it was a mistake.
	www.nis.org.yu /aggression/280499e.html (1243 words)

	Another Mistake
		Nato's bomb - one of two which struck the homes of Surdulica - had scored a direct hit on the house, killing at least nine other children in the basement, the youngest only five years old.
		Surdulica was not the place yesterday to discuss Nato's latest explanations of a single erroneous bomb or its expressions of regret or the British Ministry of Defence's statement - made four hours after the attack - that Nato had had "a good day" over Yugoslavia.
		Surdulica will now be known as a town that lost its children.
	www.chegevara.cg.yu /tekstovi/BACKGROUND/SurdulicaEng.htm (874 words)

	Is US Committing War Crimes
		The 1945 the Nuremberg Charter declares that the "wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity" is punishable as a war crime.
		NATO said its target in Surdulica was an army barracks.
		Surdulica is near Serbia border with Bulgaria, not Kosovo.
	members.tripod.com /kosovo99/isus.htm (755 words)

	At least 11 die in NATO's repeat raid on Serbia's Surdulica. Serbian Ministry of Information, (31 May 1999)
		Five refugees were killed in the sanatorium and six old people in the old people's home, according to the Vranje-based Pcinj District civil defence command and the command in Surdulica.
		It is feared the number of fatalities may be higher, with rescue parties still clearing away the debris and searching for survivors.
		This was NATO's sixth raid on Surdulica, a town with a population of 12,500, since the western alliance launched its aggression on Yugoslavia on March 24.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /Kosovo/Kosovo-Current_News201.htm (198 words)

	Guardian \| Nato bombs kill 17 in sanatorium
		The official Radio Serbia said two missiles hit an old people's home in the grounds of the sanatorium in Surdulica, south-eastern Serbia, and part of the complex where refugees from Croatia were housed, during the attack on Sunday night.
		Jamie Shea, the Nato spokesman, said the bridge, and a building in Surdulica, which the alliance insists was an army barracks, were both "legitimate, designated military targets".
		Journalists taken to the the hospital in Surdulica said they saw 11 bodies lying under sheets outside the shattered complex.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,3870659-103558,00.html (634 words)

	Surdulica "Mistake". (27 April 1999)
		NATO admitted today that laser-guided weapon went astrayed and accidentaly hit the residental area of Surdulica.The group of indignant citizens yelled "Fascists!" while protesting against NATO attack on the city.
		11 misilles were fired on Surdulica causing damage to more than 300 civilian objects.
		Sea also said that one bomb was released by mistake during the attack over army barracks.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /Kosovo/Kosovo-Mistakes7.htm (707 words)

	[news] 'Crime' that still awaits justice
		In an article in daily Danas newspaper on December 24, 2004, she said the factory's blast furnaces were used to burn the bodies of Albanians killed in Kosovo on May 16 and May 24, 1999 - during the NATO conflict.
		A WALL OF SILENCE IN SURDULICA Surdulica is a small town of around 10,000 people, some ten km from the motorway that runs from Belgrade to Skopje.
		But the arrival in Surdulica of the special state prosecutor for war crimes suggests that however much the local population wants to a draw a veil over the affair, the judicial authorities are determined to confront this painful issue.
	www.mail-archive.com /news@antic.org/msg07428.html (1920 words)

	US STATE DEPT DEPLORES CIVILIAN BOMBING! (in Sudan) [Free Republic]
		SURDULICA, Yugoslavia (AP) -- The first thing that struck Momcilo Bogdanovic when he reached the bombed sanitarium in this NATO-battered town in southern Serbia was ``the filthy smell of bombs and human blood.''
		Then he heard the wails of the injured at the complex, nestled among towering pines at the edge of Surdulica.
		He said that seeing the children, many of whom had been really badly injured visiting animals which also had visible signs of the effects of the bombing, was really poignant.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a39a88c946c22.htm (2514 words)

	Nato 'hit old people's home' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The reports said the attack on Surdulica was the second time that Nato had hit civilian targets in the town.
		Officials say the town was hit by four bombs at around midnight, two of which landed on the old people's home.
		Nato military spokesman General Konrad Freitag said on Monday that warplanes struck two targets in Surdulica - an ammunition storage depot and a military barracks - but denied that missiles had struck a sanatorium.
	www.globalaging.org /elderrights/world/kosovo1.htm (185 words)

	CNN - Britain 'regrets' civilian deaths in NATO attack - April 28, 1999
		A NATO source said Tuesday that a U.S. F-15 may have been responsible for the deaths in Surdulica when one of its laser-guided bombs missed its target by about 500 yards.
		CNN's Alessio Vinci was taken to Surdulica by Yugoslav military officials late Tuesday.
		Surdulica Mayor Miroljub Stoiljkovic said he could not understand the attack.
	edition.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9904/28/kosovo.03 (1671 words)

	Serbia Info News / At least 16 killed, large number heavily and slightly wounded
		Belgrade, April 28, 1999 (Tanjug) - During the last night, the NATO aviation was shooting at civilian targets again in the area of Belgrade and Pozega, whereas yesterday they hit civilian targets in Surdulica and vicinity of Leskovac.
		Ten missiles fired by NATO killed at least 10 civilians Tuesday in Surdulica, a town in south Serbia.
		Vranje civilian defense district headquarters said that in the destructive bombing of a residential area of Surdulica about one hundred buildings have been razed to the ground.
	www.serbia-info.com /news/1999-04/27/11357.html (329 words)

	NewStandard: 6/1/99
		Western journalists taken to Surdulica by Serb authorities saw a scene of devastation, with 11 bodies lying under sheets outside the shattered medical complex and four others, those of elderly women, on stretchers in front of the retirement home.
		Surdulica was the scene of an errant missile strike April 27, which killed at least 15 people.
		The attack came a day after 11 civilians were reported killed when NATO missiles sent a bridge in central Serbia crashing into a river.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/06-99/06-01-99/a01wn007.htm (895 words)

	Blunders: Dozens of Civilians Are Killed as NATO Air Strikes Go Awry
		But Western journalists who went on Monday to Surdulica, 155 miles southeast of the capital, said that two missiles each made direct hits on a retirement home and a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients.
		On April 27, another NATO attack on Surdulica missed its target and killed 20 people in a residential area, half of them children.
		The injured were taken Monday to another hospital in Surdulica, one that had no running water.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/europe/060199kosovo-serbia.html (1104 words)

	CNN - Children reported killed when NATO bomb missed target - April 28, 1999
		BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (CNN) -- A stray NATO bomb is believed to have killed at least 16 civilians, including 11 children, in the southern Serbian village of Surdulica.
		A NATO source told CNN late Tuesday that a U.S. F-15 fighter may have been responsible for the deaths in Surdulica when one of its 2,000-pound laser-guided bombs missed its target - - an army barracks -- by 500 yards.
		Vinci said local officials in Surdulica told him 16 NATO missiles hit the area Tuesday.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9904/28/kosovo.02 (1737 words)

	World News - NATO hits Serbian sanitarium complex 06/01/99
		The alliance acknowledged striking a military barracks and an ammunition storage area in the area around Surdulica, 220 miles southeast of Belgrade, but would not confirm hitting the civilian sites and the reports of casualties.
		Paramedics carry a stretcher after an explosion Monday in Surdulica, 155 miles south of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
		In Brussels, NATO spokesman Col. Konrad Freytag insisted that ''all munitions hit the planned aiming points'' in the Surdulica area and the alliance could not confirm reports of casualties.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/060199/wor_0601990063.shtml (1089 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: NATO Attacks Reportedly Claim More Civilians
		In Surdulica, 220 miles southeast of Belgrade, the Yugoslav and Serbian capital, reporters saw 11 bodies lying under sheets near a medical complex and those of four elderly women on stretchers in front of the retirement home, which housed 35 people.
		The attack, which took place shortly after midnight, was the second to hit civilians in Surdulica since the war began.
		The Red Cross flag on the roof of the building was clearly visible," said Branislav Ristic, head of Surdulica's civil defense office.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/stories/belgrade060199.htm (687 words)

	YDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		F.R. The youngest victim of NATO's brutal raid on civilian facilities in the Serbian town of Surdulica on Tuesday was barely 3 years old, according to Serbia's Vice Premier on Wednesday.
		He stressed that NATO planes targeted only civilian facilities in Surdulica, which is today the saddest place on earth.
		Savovic said the NATO aggressors most brutally threaten the lives of the youngest, and that children are increasingly frequently targets of the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia.
	www.suc.org /news/yds/b290499_e.html (3060 words)

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		At least 20 people killed in attack on sanatorium in Surdulica.
		Surdulica In last night attack on Surdulica Sanatorium for lung diseases was hit.
		Varvarin It was confirmed today that Sunday's attack on Varvarin bridge left nine people dead, six missing, seventeen injured and twenty-one wounded.
	www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/99eeu/Free_Serbia-NEWS_Monday,_May_31st,_1999 (1175 words)

	Bosnian Institute News: Secret police in Kosovo cover-up
		In Surdulica, everybody knows that, in the said factory, during NATO bombardment, corpses from Kosovo were incinerated.
		Judging by the comments in the State Security in Surdulica, immediately after the incineration, there had been children among the victims.
		In connection with the events in Mackatica, a number of eyewitnesses forced to sign the ‘peace of mind’ statements and individuals who had learned about what had been happening, contacted the members of the police they had trust in, hoping that an energetic action aimed at an elucidation of the event would ensue.
	www.bosnia.org.uk /news/news_body.cfm?newsid=1995 (449 words)

	Air Raids: NATO Bombs Reported to Kill 20 Civilians in Southern Serbia
		In what appears to have been an accident of war, as many as 300 houses were destroyed, local officials said.
		NATO released a statement that acknowledged that its planes struck a military target in the city, but did not directly answer questions about civilian deaths.
		If the Surdulica figures are confirmed, the strike would be among the worst cases of civilian casualties, ranking with the deaths of Albanian refugees in a column in Kosovo and the bombings of a passenger train in Grdelica and of a residential area in Aleksinac.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/europe/042899kosovo-serbia-bombs.html (431 words)

	BBC News \| Monitoring \| Serb media condemn civilian killings
		Serbian state media was quick to report on the civilian casualties resulting from what it described as Nato's "criminal" attack on the southeastern Serbian town of Surdulica on Tuesday, and carried official and public messages of condemnation of the raid.
		"If there is justice, international judges will pronounce sentences against Nato officials responsible for striking a residential area in Surdulica where scores of civilians, mostly children, were killed or injured, which constitutes a crime against humanity," the Yugoslav state news agency Tanjug said.
		However, before turning to the attack on Surdulica, Serbian radio and television both began their news bulletins on Wednesday morning with reports on Slobodan Milosevic's marking of Yugoslavia's Statehood Day by laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/monitoring/330882.stm (1375 words)

	CNN - Children believed killed when NATO bomb missed target - April 28, 1999
		CNN's Alessio Vinci confirmed seeing several bodies and damage to hundreds of homes on Tuesday in the Serbian village of Surdulica, 320 kilometers (200 miles) south of Belgrade.
		NATO sources claim the attack was targeting a military barracks in Surdulica.
		They said a U.S. F-15 fighter may have been responsible for the deaths in Surdulica when one of its 2,000-pound laser- guided bombs missed its target, an army barracks, by 500 yards.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9904/28/kosovo.01/index.html (1393 words)

	SIGHTINGS
		- April 28: NATO, aiming for an army barracks in the Serb village of Surdulica (250 kms/150 miles south of Belgrade), bombs a residential area, leaving at least 20 civilians dead.
		NATO has not confirmed whether there were cars on the bridge and insists the bridge was a legitimate military garget.
		NATO says it successfully attacked a military barracks in the town but refuses to confirm, or categorically deny, hitting the hospital.
	www.rense.com /politics2/deathblunders.htm (638 words)

	Korisa
		Two NATO missiles hit civilian objects in the center of Surdulica on April 27, 1999, between 12 and 12:30 p.m.
		A CNN reporter counted 16 civilian victims at the scene, 11 of which were children between 5 and 12 years of age.
		Several hundred civilian objects in the center of Surdulica were damaged, some of them completely destroyed.
	www.cem.msu.edu /~pastirki/svescica.htm (2104 words)

	Cyprus Mail: Press Review in English, 99-04-30
		Phileleftheros maintained that Nato aircraft were hitting non-military targets and killing civilians "with the obvious aim of destroying the morale and resistance of the Serbs".
		The Nato spokesman had admitted that the bombing of Surdulica was a mistake, but added that the death of civilians was inevitable in any war.
		Meanwhile, the Yugoslav authorities said that 1,000 people had been killed by the bombing, half of whom were children, and 5,000 had been injured.
	www.hri.org /cgi-bin/brief?/news/cyprus/cmpress/1999/99-04-30.cmpress.html (629 words)

	Killing and Terrorizing Serb Civilians
		This was the second deadly attack on the town of 15,000.
		The attacks on Varvarin and Surdulica were particularly cruel and ominous incidents.
		That quality must have communicated itself to a number of journalists, because for once they provided a glimpse of the human face of NATO's victims.
	members.tripod.com /kosovo99/responsi.htm (1310 words)

	AIM News
		An Old men home in Surdulica was hit on midnight with 4 missiles.
		According to the latest information, during last night's NATO attack on Surdulica at least 16 persons were killed and more than 36 were wounded but the results are not final.
		Two vehicles which carried a group of correspondents were hit by a missile in the Rekane village of Kosovo, ten kilometers away from Prizren, on Sunday, well-informed sources told Itar-Tass.
	www.aim.ac.yu /cgi-bin/news.pl?id=799 (837 words)

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