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NATO Bomb Discovery Prompts Evacuation of 1,300 in Serbia
Around 1,300 people were evacuated today to allow for the removal of a NATO bomb dropped in 1999 in Nis, southeastern Serbia, a source from the Interior Ministry said.
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The unexploded 2,000-pound bomb was removed from a construction site.
"It is being transported to a safe location to be destroyed," Interior Ministry official Luka Causic told reporters, adding that police, firefighters and a medical team assisted in the bomb's deactivation.
The MK84 bomb contained 950 pounds of explosives, Causic said.
NATO's 78-day bombing campaign against Serbia in the spring of 1999 was aimed at halting Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic's crackdown on Kosovo Albanian separatists.
On May 7, 1999, at least 15 people were killed when NATO planes dropped cluster bombs on an outdoor market in Nis.
The bombing was later described as a mistake.
Five days later, on May 12, NATO again bombed Serbia's third-largest city, killing 11 civilians.
The Kosovo conflict, marked by atrocities and an ethnic cleansing campaign orchestrated from Belgrade, was the bloodiest chapter in the breakup of the former Yugoslavia.
It left more than 13,000 people dead, the vast majority of them ethnic Albanians, and hundreds of thousands displaced.
A 2000 report by the non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch said about 500 civilians, both ethnic Serbs and ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, were killed in NATO airstrikes.
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