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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 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.
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]
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 honored the request on 25 and 26 May 1995 by bombing a Serb ammunition dump at Pale. [15] The mission was carried out by USAF F-16s and Spanish Air Force EF-18As Hornet armed with laser-guided bombs. [53] The Serbs then seized 377 UNPROFOR hostages and used them as human shields for a variety of targets in Bosnia, forcing NATO to end its ...
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.
Because of the widespread devastation, it’s unclear how many people have been killed so far in the war. NATO estimated this week that 7,000 to 15,000 Russian troops have been killed since Feb ...
Clockwise from top left: The Executive Council Building burns after being hit by tank fire in Sarajevo; Bosanska Krupa in 1992; Bosnian refugees reunited in a military camp; Serbian T-34 tank being drawn away from the frontline near Doboj in spring of 1996; Ratko Mladić with Army of Republika Srpska officers; A Norwegian UN peacekeeper in Sarajevo during the siege in 1992