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PARIS - The Paris weekly Marianne speculated in a front-page article of its latest issue whether the French public had been lied about the true nature of NATO's aggression on Yugoslavia that ended five months ago.
Instructing French readers to judge for themselves whether they had been deceived, the paper carried on its front page a photograph of a grief-stricken Serb woman among the rubble following NATO's bombing of Surdulica, in the southeast of Serbia, on April 28 when 20 civilians had been killed.
The weekly published on a dozen pages a dossier containing excerpts from reports published by French and other Western media on NATO's March 24-June 10 aggression on Yugoslavia and the situation in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's Kosovo and Metohija province.
The excerpts selected by the weekly, which tried to report on the first aggression war launched by the alliance, formed half a century ago for defence purposes, in a highly objective manner, clearly indicates that NATO manipulated the world public during its aggression on Yugoslavia, that it triggered a humanitarian disaster in Kosovo and Metohija rather than prevented it and that it committed crimes against civilians and devastated the Yugoslav economy.
Marianne said that the outcome of NATO's war against Yugoslavia was terrifying, saying that the grossness of lies that were to serve as a cover for the alliance's regrettable operation had at last been fully brought to light.
The weekly said that Kosovo and Metohija had neither autonomy at this point nor was independent, saying that the province was under occupation and was an international protectorate where the reign of terror by extremists of the ethnic Albanian terrorist organisation calling itself Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and criminals ruled.