Bill Clinton's speech about Kosovo killings shortly before NATO bombings

In a speech on March 24, 1999, Clinton said that Serbian brutality against Kosovars was not stopping. “Today our forces joined NATO against Serb forces responsible for brutality in Kosovo. We are acting to protect thousands of innocent people in Kosovo from military offensive, we are acting to prevent one [...]
“Today our forces joined NATO against Serb forces responsible for brutality in Kosovo. We are acting to protect thousands of innocent people in Kosovo from military offensive, we are acting to prevent a broader” war, he said.
For years Kosovars had peacefully tried to regain their rights ... when Milosevic sent his troops to crush them, this attempt became violent. We proposed a peace agreement that Kosovo leaders signed, although they did not give him everything they wanted while Serbs refused to even discuss. This was not a war in the traditional sense, it was an attack of tanks and artillery on people who were largely without protection, whose leaders agreed for peace”, Clinton adds.












