5 minutes agoThe way an elderly man manifested freedom in 1999 (FOTO)
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)22 years ago, Kosovo was freed from the Serbian occupier. On June 12th 1999, after 78 days of bombing of the US-led Western Military Alliance against Serb-Montenegrin military targets in Kosovo in Serbia and Montenegro, NATO troops entered Kosovo in the peacekeeping mission that would be called KFOR, giving them [...]
On June 12th 1999, after 78 days of bombing of the US-led Western Military Alliance against Serb-Montenegrin military targets in Kosovo in Serbia and Montenegro, NATO troops entered Kosovo in the peacekeeping mission that would be called KFOR, ending the nearly two-year war between the Albanian rebel population organised in the ranks of the Kosovo Liberation Army and the Serbian-Montenegrin occupational forces and police.
KFOR soldiers, who marked the end of the war and the Serbian genocide against Albanians in Kosovo, were met with tears, flowers and cheers in June 1999, Klankosova reported.tv.
Such emotion included an elderly man who had bent and lifted up two fingers symbolising victory as soon as he entered Kosovo.
The photograph taken by Antonello Nusca best presents the emotion of experiencing freedom by an elderly man.
KFOR troops enter #Kosovo
12 June 1999.
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