The moment when Bill Clinton issued orders for launching NATO's management of the Serbian Army

March 25th 1999 also marked NATO's campaigns on Serbian military and police targets.

Following the then refusal of the Balkan “Cassap, President of the United States of America Bill Clinton issued orders for the launch of the Atlantic Alliance's air strikes.

They lasted 78 days until June 9th, when the Serbian lieutenant even surrendered.

Before the departure, Clinton also gave a speech explaining to the American people why this campaign was necessary.

“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.

During his speech, he stressed that aggressor Serbia was indifferent even when Kosovo leaders, during the time when Kosovars were being killed, agreed for peace.

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”, he stressed.

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