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Article: War in the Balkans: `Nato came by night, and God at dawn'
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 1, 1999
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NATO CAME at night, God in the morning. The air raids lasted
until dawn, the longest yet; that's when the earthquake trembled its
way across Belgrade and moved the rubble of the defence ministry and
the wreckage of Nato's latest awesome "mistake" - this time a direct
hit on homes near the university. Two dead civilians were dragged
from one house. "And they hit a car," an angry Serb shouted at me
afterwards. "A man had stopped at the traffic lights on the street
and a bomb cut him in half."
It had been easy - until yesterday morning - to mock CNN's reports
of Belgrade's air raids. Missiles, we were always told, "rained
down" on Yugoslavia. But when I walked on to my bedroom balcony
early ...