{"id":41754,"date":"2023-03-25T10:08:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T10:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/yugoslavia-bombings-african-peacekeepers-more-kindhearted-and-sympathetic-war-child-recalls"},"modified":"2023-03-25T11:59:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T11:59:09","slug":"yugoslavia-bombings-african-peacekeepers-more-kindhearted-and-sympathetic-war-child-recalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/yugoslavia-bombings-african-peacekeepers-more-kindhearted-and-sympathetic-war-child-recalls","title":{"rendered":"Yugoslavia Bombings: African Peacekeepers &#8216;More Kindhearted and Sympathetic&#8217;, War Child Recalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>On March 24, 1999, NATO forces started bombing the territory of Yugoslavia. The purpose of the NATO attacks was the withdrawal of the Yugoslav Armed Forces from Kosovo, which was trying to gain independence from Belgrade. The bombings lasted 78 days.<br \/>\nTwenty-four years after the start of NATO&#8217;s air strikes on Yugoslavia, on the day that commemorates the beginning of almost three months of constant bombardment for thousands of people, Sputnik asked Bojan Milivojevic, who faced the atrocities of war in the city of Kosovska Mitrovica, to tell us how he got through these events.<br \/>\nMilivojevic, who was only nine years old when the bombing started, underlined that the events of spring 1999 adversely affected the entire population, regardless of one&#8217;s age, leaving deep psychological wounds. He explained that the days of the bombings were deeply imprinted in his memory, and every March 24 revives these painful memories.<br \/>\nRecalling the end of the war and the arrival of the peacekeeping mission, he pointed out that the members of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), especially from African countries, were more friendly, in particular to children, than NATO soldiers, who were bold and cruel.<br \/>\nSharing his childhood memories, Milivojevic recalled with gratitude that the Africans, who were among the UNMIK police officers deployed in the country, appeared to be the most compassionate, and one of them even became his friend.<br \/>\nAccording to Milivojevic, the soldiers of the Kosovo Force (KFOR), a military mission under the command of NATO, also behaved as professionals. The international missions, he explained, wrote down what children had experienced, after seeing that during their games they used water guns and bows and arrows to simulate war.<br \/>\nHe highlighted that the peacekeepers wanted to erase what happened from the children&#8217;s memory, taking away these war toys and giving them Lego bricks and other toys.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\">Namibia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. On March 24, 1999, NATO forces started bombing the territory of Yugoslavia. The purpose of the NATO attacks was the withdrawal of the Yugoslav Armed Forces from Kosovo, which was trying to gain independence from Belgrade. The bombings lasted 78 days. 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