2 hours agoReuters: Russian OSCE Mission With False Photographs of NATO Bombings in Serbia
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)A 2003 photo of Baghdad burning after a missile attack has been distributed on a Twitter post by the Russian Mission account at the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSBE). The tweet text, however, referred to NATO's military intervention in the 1999 Kosovo war. Tested account distributed the photo [...]
The verified account distributed the photo on March 24th along with the text saying: “on March 24, 1999, the US-led NATO began its act of illegal and untested aggression against the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which lasted 78 days”.
The Tweet photograph can be seen in the image of Getty with the inscription, “Zyarre inside and around Saddam Hussein's Council of Ministers during the first wave of attacks at the “troditation and fear” “Operation Liberation of Iraq”, on March 21, 2003 in Baghdad, Iraq”.
The NATO bombing campaign against Serb forces from the United States began in 1999 and aimed at preventing the murder and expulsion of Albanian civilians to Kosovo from the troops of the president, who is considered the Balkan butcher, Slobodan Milosevic.
NATO began shelling on 24 March and went on for 78 days until Milosevic agreed to withdraw his forces from Kosovo and end the killing of Albanian civilians in a fight against the uprising. Kosovo declared independence in 2008, supported by the United States and most EU countries.
It's a misinterpretation. The photograph relates events from the 2003 war in Iraq. It has nothing to do with the NATO bombing campaign in Serbia in 1999.
https://twitter.com/RF OSCE/state/15072820270923779?s=20t=WpVselrttuZ6vw3ZU9A
