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Human Rights Watch documented and evaluated the impact and effects of the NATO military operation, and confirmed 90 incidents in which civilians died as a result of NATO bombing. These included attacks where cluster bombs were dropped. [49] In 1999, it was estimated that 488–527 Yugoslav civilians died as a result of NATO bombing. [50]
The bombing was NATO's second major combat operation, following the 1995 bombing campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was the first time that NATO had used military force without the expressed endorsement of the UN Security Council and thus, international legal approval, [50] which triggered debates over the legitimacy of the intervention.
NATO bombing of Republika Srpska: 30 August — 20 September 1995 Republika Srpska NATO: Serbs: 152 Operation Deliberate Force was a sustained air campaign conducted by NATO, in concert with ground operations, to undermine the military capability of the Army of Republika Srpska, during the bombing 152 Serb civilians were killed [citation needed]
This category includes those killed as a result of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 (code name Operation Allied Force). Pages in category "People killed during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The second occurred on 28 August 1995 when five mortar shells launched by Army of Republika Srpska killed 43 people and wounded 75 others. The latter attack was the alleged reason for NATO air strikes against Bosnian Serb forces that would eventually lead to the Dayton Peace Accords and the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The NATO intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina was a series of actions undertaken by NATO whose stated aim was to establish long-term peace during and after the Bosnian War. [1] NATO's intervention began as largely political and symbolic, but gradually expanded to include large-scale air operations and the deployment of approximately 60,000 ...
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — NATO supports Bosnia's territorial integrity and is concerned by “malign foreign interference,” including by Russia, in the volatile Balkans region that ...
Operation Deliberate Force was a sustained air campaign conducted by NATO, in concert with the UNPROFOR ground operations, to undermine the military capability of the Army of Republika Srpska, which had threatened and attacked UN-designated "safe areas" in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War with the Srebrenica genocide and Markale massacres, precipitating the intervention.