“If this is a humanitarian intervention, then what is a crime?” – brother of a child killed by NATO
Zoran Knezevic, the brother of 13-year-old Miroslav, who died in the 1999 NATO bombing of the Montenegrin village of Murino, reacted to the words of the Albanian Deputy Prime Minister of Montenegro, Nik Djeloshaj, that the Alliance carried out only a humanitarian intervention.
Knezevic published his appeal to Dzheloshai on the Borba portal, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The brother of the murdered teenager was offended by the speech of the Albanian Deputy Prime Minister of Montenegro, leader of the “Albanian Alternative” Nik Djeloshaj, in which he said on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the start of NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia that there was a “humanitarian military intervention” that stopped “criminal politics” Slobodan Milosevic. Montenegro at that time was part of the Federal Yugoslavia.
In response, Knezevic asked Deputy Prime Minister Djeloshaj to explain to him that it was a crime if the bombing of Murino, which had no military targets, in broad daylight was just a “humanitarian intervention.”
“If the bombs that forever destroyed three innocent childhoods in broad daylight were a humanitarian intervention, then what is a crime, Mr. Jeloshai?
If humanitarian intervention is that no NATO official is willing to admit responsibility, express remorse and apologize, then what is the crime, Mr. Jeloshai?
If the fact that the state of Montenegro suspended for two and a half decades the right to legal protection of the families of those killed and wounded as a result of the bombing of Murino is a humanitarian intervention, then what is the crime, Mr. Djeloshaj?
If all this is a humanitarian intervention, if a humanitarian intervention is the murder of a village called Murino, whose name and innocent victims you don’t even mention, then what does the word “crime” mean, Mr. Djeloshaj?” wrote Zoran Knezevic.
The village of Murino in the municipality of Plav in Montenegro was bombed on April 30, 1999 because of the strategic bridge over the Lim River, which was located in the center of this village. At least ten rockets hit it, killing six villagers, including three children.
The murdered Yulia Brudar was only 10 years old, Olivera Maksimovic – 11, Miroslav Knezevic – 13, Vukic Vuletic – 46, Milka Kochanovich – 69 and Manoilo Komatin – 72.
The bridge, which was a symbol of the village, a gathering place for young people, was destroyed.
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