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http://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/apr/24/balkans3By Richard Norton-Taylor
theguardian.com, Saturday 24 April 1999 03.20 BST
Nato leaders yesterday scrambled to justify the bombing of Serbia's state television station in an attack which killed a number of civilian workers and marked a further widening in the scope of targets now considered legitimate.
The attack on the building in the centre of Belgrade - which contradicted an apparent assurance by Nato this month that only transmitters would be hit - was condemned by international journalists' organisations, representing both employers and unions.
Reporters at the scene said they saw the almost decapitated body of one man dangling from the rubble, and the body of a make-up artist. Another man was trapped between two concrete blocks. Doctors amputated his legs at the site but he later died.
an old story. it has been 15 years and the people who ordered this attack are not behind bars. apparently killing journalists "is okay when we do it".
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)redgreenandblue
(2,088 posts)That it is an old story is part of my point. Sorry, should have commented.
MineralMan
(146,324 posts)Oh, wait...1999...did you have a point?
redgreenandblue
(2,088 posts)Western forces have in the past directly targeted journalists in order to silence them. 15 years and the people behind this attack are still on the loose.
JI7
(89,260 posts)malaise
(269,144 posts)They bombed an Al Jazeera station in Iraq as well.
JI7
(89,260 posts)Two decades after its reporting helped fuel the worst bloodshed in Europe since the second world war, Serbia's state-run television has apologised to viewers throughout the former Yugoslavia for serving as the key propaganda tool of Slobodan Milosevic in the 1990s.
Radio Television of Serbia - or RTS - said in a statement posted on its website that the station's programmes were "almost constantly and heavily abused" by Milosevic's regime with the aim of discrediting his political and ethnic opponents and spreading the official propaganda.
The broadcaster "apologises to the citizens of Serbia and those of neighbouring countries who were subject to insult, slander and what would now be termed as hate speech", the statement added.
The apology is the first by Serbia's state broadcaster, which was one of the symbols of Milosevic's era and a key pillar of his decade-long rule, marked by wars in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia, international isolation and economic decline.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/24/serbia-state-tv-apologises-propaganda
TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)Slobodan Milosevic, Ratko Mladic, Radovan Karadzic and some 45 or so others responsible for the hideous genocide of Muslims and other disgusting war crimes in Croatia, Kosovo and Bosnia all of whom are rotting in The Hague where they belong.
"Journalists"??? RTS was being used by Milosevic agents to spread propaganda, hate and violence much as Radio-Television Libre des Mille Collines (RTLMC) did during the Rwandan genocide of Tutsi's and moderate Hutu's by violent Hutu extremists.
It's been 15 years and you still haven't a single clue of what you're talking about.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)redgreenandblue
(2,088 posts)TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)That's one of the reasons why the mother fuckers are in The Hague now.
Inciting genocidal slaughter is not free speech anywhere - it's a WAR CRIME just as it was a WAR CRIME in Rwanda.
Go learn what Milosevic and his army of Serb genocidal war criminals did, and quit flinging your bullshit here.
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)NewDeal_Dem
(1,049 posts)droned the newsreaders at CNN and FOX.
"It's OK when we do it" seems the operating principle at DU.