A moment when Serbian troops leave ashamed of Kosovo

On June 12th 1999, the first NATO infantry troops have landed in Kosovo, while the evacuation of Serb forces has begun.

In a video from the British news agency Associated Press archive, it is seen how Yugoslav troops leave Kosovo.

With armoured vehicles, tanks and buses, most Serbian forces were leaving Kosovo, leaving behind a major collapse and thousands of victims. A large part of Serb civilians left with them.

The retreat began on the day the agreement signed on 9 June 1999 in Kumanovo was entered between NATO forces and the then Yugoslav Army.

It was signed by Michael Jackson, KFOR's first commander in Kosovo, and former Army Chief of Staff of Serbia General Nebojsa Pavkovic, Hague war crimes indictee and genocide.

Among other things in the deal was the following:

c) to leave Kosovo all personnel and organisations with military capabilities, including regular army and navy forces, armed civilians, paramilitary, air forces, national border police, reserve, military police, intelligence services, MUP, local police, special police, anti-rebelist, anti-terrorism and any group designated by KFOR.

d) assigned an air safety zone 25 kilometers across Kosovo's border, while at point

e) was assigned a five-mile zone across the border with RFJs that dared not deploy heavy weapons and armies, except border soldiers. The attacks, which lasted for 78 days, were cancelled on June 10th after NATO Supreme Commander General Wesley Clark reported to the North Atlantic Council that the air strikes had forced dictator Slobodan Milosevic to begin full withdrawal of forces from Kosovo. With NATO's entry, the deployment of the United Nations Organisation's interim mission began in Kosovo Choose a working directory - U n NMIC, who would manage the country for a certain period of time.