NATO'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ART OF KILLING

After the bombings stopped, various police stations around Belgrade displayed dozens of photos of officers killed while performing rescue operations or other duties during the aerial attacks. Casualties among rescue workers were high. NATO had devised the devilish technique of bombing a site, then waiting fifteen minutes—just time enough for rescue teams to arrive and get working—to hit the target a second time, killing many of the would-be rescuers, and making it extremely dangerous for teams to dig for survivors. This method of delayed follow-up precision missile attack on a civilian target was one of NATO's innovative war crimes.15

  1. Parenti, "NATO's 'Humanitarian' War: Notes of the Aftermath," Humanist, March/April 2000, 15.