The worst peace is better than any war

Ruined the host building of the  Serbian Ministry of interior affairs, Belgrade downtown, in Kneza Milosa street

'Usce' Business Center, in the central part of  New Belgrade, this is the recorded moment after the first bombing. This building was the main residence of seven private  TV and radio broadcasting networks and over 20 trade companies not only from Serbia but also from worldwide

Upper floors of the 'Usce' Business Center in the night of the second attack.  All facilities in this part of the building were destroyed and burned.  Unbelievable, the army target ? Any reasonable explanation could not be found....

Igor Rasula and his Mother in the morning after the second attack and bombing of  the building of  'Usce' Business Center in New Belgrade

The central Heating Plant for the Capital in Serbia - for over 300,000 inhabitants of  the City parts in New Belgrade and Zemun - totally destroyed. As it is positioned on the left hand of the Sava River bank, over 400,000 liters of oil were flown into the ground, near the Sava river bank and deeplu infiltrated into the alluvial aquifer nearby (where the Ranney wells of the main Belgrade Water Supply System - water source exist).

The most oil is also flown directly into the sub-surface layer near the  Sava River. Other facilities of the huge heating plant were burned up in terrible explosion and firestorm which could be heard in almost all parts of the Serbian Capital.

 

 

National media center - Radio Television of Serbia was destroyed, specially the Eurovision communication studio,  which many of the world journalists and broadcast networs  had used to send their reports worldwide prior to the distruction. 9 (nine) innocent people, journalists and technicians in the RTS were killed and 18  injured. We asked ourselves many times after that: "WHY"... Can the media be a military target.. Here in Belgrade and any other places over the globe ?

   

Watch out a Journalist of the Serbian Television 15 min after the two missiles ruined the master and tehcnical studios for the Eurovision communication connections. The right leg of this innocent journalist was cut off  immediately by the emergency. That was the only way for him to survive. Unfortunately, two hours later on, this pour man died in unbelievable horrible pains.

   

Look here above at this two pictures. This is one of two big buildings that belongs to the Yugoslav Ministry of Defense, Belgrade downtown, in the Kneza Milosa street. Have to be mentioned: altogether three attacks from the 10 thousand feets  above us using  the "smart missiles", were trying to find the room of the Yugoslav Minister of  Defense, or someone else.....

Unbelivevable "success of the attacher"... It was known that this building has been absolutely  emptied few weeks prior that.

On the two upper pictures, Igor Rasula in front of the building of the Chinese Embassy in  the center of  New Belgrade - Tresnjin Cvet street - pictures were taken next morning since the night of catastrophe has ended in this part of the City....

See also some of unknown innocent diplomats and journalist in the Emergency car, just the 10 min after the shocking attack has been finished... Why the Chinese Embassy and the Chinese people became a military target in the Serbian Capital, in the Tresnjin Cvet (trans. tremors flower) Street ??? We'll always remember the China's people and the nation and their help the world see the tragedies in Serbia.

On these two pictures above, you can see the ruined car garage and many cars in the parking area near the famous and one of the top  known "Hotel Yugoslavia" in the most picturesque part of  Belgrade - in Zemun... Did this garage and all those cars present the army targets, we have asked ourselves ???  Or maybe, the "smart rockets" were trying to find someone from the gouvernment, tourists, residents, visitors of Belgrade ????

  
 

  

Here above, you can see the particles of the Graphite bombs, been sent to destroyed the complete Serbian Electro Power plant.  Many cities and towns, as well as few parts of Montenegro were in the total dark, without electricity, heating and fresh water...     Thousands of people were put in tragedies.... between March and June 1999... for three long lasting times.  Over 7 (seven) days, the Republic of Serbia stayed in total dark...

    
 

The bridges over the Sava and the Danube Rivers were protected just by the bodies of the inhabitants of Belgrade. In the City of Novi Sad, aggressors tried to distroy the famous Zezelj railway and moto Bridge over the Danube River. Six time, the bridge sayed at the same position, unfortunately, for the 7th, it has got into the water. Igor Rasula and his Mother (on the picture on the right) as the unarmed defenders of the famous Branko's bridge over the Sava River, which in the downtown connects an old and new part of the City of Belgrade... Brave people showed courage, fortunately, they stayed alive while "someone" said "no" for such stupid idea...

  

See here on the right the old ruined Railway bridge over  the Sava river in the southern suburb of Belgrade near the village of Ostruznica...  Who can explaine that this traffic infrastructure, out of use for more then 30 years behind, presents here the war turget. From the aspect of environmental protection that destruction might be seen against the large groundwater source of the Belgrade Water Supply System (with more then 45 Ranney Wells on the right alluvial deposit of the Sava River in the Makis area).

        

The famous building and the architectual monument near the Capital of Yugoslavia, the main state Communication and TV tower on the Avala mountain (22 km to the South of the heart of Belgrade), totaly destroyed... All communications had been boken. TV, Radio, Telephone and other signals had to be dispositioned to some other temporal locations. Inspite of that, the life continued in all segments among more then 7 million inhabitants, companies, institutions, etc.

Belgrade by night, 78 terrible nights for 11 weeks in spring of 1999.  Does anyone could think about the consequences on the innocent people?  Is it normal and moral? Such action at the end of this 20th century?  What a lovely and "dirty" sky above our city against flying attackers... Not to be forgottten, forever...

We're all human beings <> Arranged and prepared by Goran Rasula, on May 20, 1999