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Newer estimates place the total death toll at 650,000 to 850,000. [87] 148 of the Union dead were U.S. Marines. [91] [92] ca. ^ Civil War April 2, 2012, Doctor David Hacker after extensive research offered new casualty rates higher by 20%; his work has been accepted by the academic community and is represented here.
Civilian deaths were high as the attack occurred in the middle of the day when civilians were congregating in the streets and at the market where the death toll was greatest. The second bombing Monument to victims of the bombing of Niš. On 12 May 1999, the eastern part of the city was bombed with cluster bombs, resulting in 11 civilian ...
Civilian Dead Total Dead Note Iraq War (Operation Telic) 2003 2009 179 43 222 Casualties of the Iraq War: Afghanistan (Operation Herrick) 2001 2014 457 101 546 British Forces casualties in Afghanistan since 2001: Sierra Leone Civil War: 2000 2000 1 1 Balkans - Bosnia/Kosovo: 1992 2009 72 72 Ref: Gulf War 1990–1991 (Operation Granby) 1990 1991 ...
May 13: NATO bombed the buildings of the Novi Sad Television in Mišeluk. Its buildings were heavily damaged as well as neighbouring civilian residential houses. Fruška Gora was also bombed, as well as electric installations in Rimski Šančevi causing the city to lose electricity again. May 15: NATO bombed Brankovac on Fruška Gora.
By nationality, 87 of the killed civilians were Serbs, 230 Albanians, and 18 of other nationalities. Following the withdrawal of Serbian and Yugoslav security forces from Kosovo in June 1999, all casualties were civilians, the vast majority being Serbs.
The Grdelica train bombing occurred on 12 April 1999, when two missiles fired by a USAF F-15E Strike Eagle fighter bomber hit a passenger train while it was passing across a railway bridge over the Južna Morava river in the Grdelica gorge, some 300 kilometres (190 mi) south of Belgrade, Serbia. At least 20 civilian passengers were killed or ...
The NATO bombing of Albanian refugees near Gjakova occurred on 14 April 1999 during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, when NATO planes bombed refugees on a twelve-mile stretch of road between the towns of Gjakova and Deçan in western Kosovo. 73 Kosovo Albanian civilians were killed. [1] [2] Among the victims were 16 children.
In regards to civilian casualties, it further stated that though they were, "unfortunately high, they do not appear to be clearly disproportionate." Aftermath The Tašmajdan park memorial to the victims of 23 April 1999 NATO bombing includes names, ages, and job descriptions of each person killed in the attack.