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SCENES FROM CUPRIJA

NATO air strikes are not a war against the Serbian people, western alliance officials keep repeating from a safe distance, using the term “collateral damage” as a heartless bureaucratic definition of Serbian and Albanian civilian victims. The destru- ction of homes and the obliteration of all future 

prospective for Yugoslav children is for them the sublime scope of the humanitarian intervention launched to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe.In reality, their actions seem to say – We’re sorry for killing you, but it’s for your own good.

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YUGOSLAV ARMY PRESS CENTER

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Tel./fax/ 32-39-553 and 32-43-576

April 18th 1999

DAILY REVIEW

EXCERPTS FROM THE STATEMENTMADE BY 3RD ARMY COMMANDER – 

MAJOR GENERAL NEBOJSAPAVKOVIC

The YA 3rd army managed to fully preserve material,technical and combat equipment in Kosovo and

Metohija, and NATO suffered major losses in ourterritory. The men of the 3rd Army alone downed 16aircraft, 5 helicopters, 46 cruise missiles and 4 drones.Because of the NATO aggression the people and theArmy have practically become one, fully determined todefend their country. Albanian terrorist forces in Kosovoand Metohija have been disbanded and the very fact thatNATO aggressors are forming new Albanian units inAlbania and Macedonia and making every possible effortto infiltrate them into the country confirms this. We areready, so let them come. In Kosovo and Metohija wenow have more than 150.000 armed men. If only 30percent of these muzzles makes a hit, this will be theprice that the aggressor will pay should he try to intrudeinto our country. We are the army of all the nations andethnic communities living in Kosovo and Metohija andthat is exactly how we behave – general Pavkovicstressed adding that the morale of the troops is high asnever before. He also underscored that the KosMet crisiscan be settled through political negotiations with KosmetAlbanians, provided that the aggression on ourcountry is terminated first.

NATO ATTACKS ON CIVILIANAND INDUSTRIAL PLANTSIN THE NIGHT BETWEENAPRIL 17th and 18th 1999

The air raids of the aggressor forces on FR Yugoslaviacontinued over the past 24 hours. In many cities NATO missiles

targeted industrial facilities that have nothing to do with militaryproduction, even though they have already been raided before.

BELGRADE: (22:00) Milica Rakic – a three-year-old girl hasbeen killed, and five more civilians wounded in the NATO strike onthe Belgrade suburb of Batajnica. For the seventh time since theNATO aggression started, Strazevica Hill in the Belgrade suburbof Rakovica was bombed. Major damages have been inflicted onthe surrounding residential area.

NOVI SAD: (22:15-23:05) The raid lasted some 50 minutes.Four missiles were fired at the local oil refinery plant. The energeticreaction of the YA Air Defense units prevented major destructionof the Vojvodina Province capital.

VALJEVO: (22:40) The village of Pricevici, the zone ofMt. Divcibare and Mt. Maljen.

POZEGA: (23:30) NATO planes targeted the village ofPrijanovici firing about a dozen missiles at it. The reaction of the

YA Air Defense was decisive.UZICE: (23:30) Various missiles have been fired at the town.

PRISTINA: (00:00) About 30 missiles have been fired at theSlatina Airport and the villages of Belacevac and Vrelo. A numberof civilians have have been wounded, and the damages causedare immense.

PANCEVO: (01:20) Several missiles have been fired at the oilrefinery, the fertilizer factory and the local petro-chemical industry.