In the line of fire

Nato has deliberately targeted the infrastructure of Yugoslavia. Below is a list of just some of what has been either damaged or destroyed.

Infrastructure

• The Varadin Bridge over the Danube.

• The new railway bridge over the Danube connecting Bogojevo and Erdut.

• The bridge along the Nis-Pristina primary road, near Kursumlija.

• The bridge near Zubin Potole.

• The Zerstorte bridge in Novi Sad.

• The railway bridge on the river Lim, between Priboj and Prijepolje, near the hydroelectric power station Bistrica.

• Railway station in Kraljevo (Bogutovac).

• Belgrade-Zagreb highway, near Stari Banovci.

• Jedinstvo bus station in Vranje.

• Kosmet Prevoz transporter in Gnjilane (a hangar full of new buses).

• Batajnica and Surcin airports in Belgrade.

• Nis airport.

Industry and trade

• Galenika drug factory in Belgrade.

• Zdravlje pharmaceutical plant in Leskovac.

• Sloboda white goods factory in Cacak.

• Din tobacco industry in Nis.

• Div cigarette factory in Vranje.

• Binacka Morava hydro construction company in Gnjilane.

• Nova Jugoslavija printers in Vranje.

• Facilities of the Beograd rail company in Nis.

• Over 250 commercial and crafts shops in Djakovica.

• Dijana shoe factory in Sremska Mitrovica.

• Zastava car factory in Kragujevac.

• Cotton yarn factory in Pristina.

• Krusik holding corporation in Valjevo.

• Surface coal mine Belacevac.

Refineries, warehouses and agriculture

• Fuel storage in Lipovica, which caused a great fire in the Lipovica forest.

• Oil refinery in Pancevo.

• Thermoelectric power station/boiler plant in Novi Sad.

• Oil refinery in Novi Sad.

• Petrochemical industry DP Hip Petrohemija in Pancevo.

• Fertilizer plant DP Hip Azotara in Pancevo-totally destroyed.

• In forest fires caused by Nato cruise missiles and bombs over 250 hectares of forests have been burned down.

• Several thousand hectares of fertile land, many rivers, lakes and underground waters have been polluted due to the spillage of petrochemical substances, oil spills and slicks.

Hospitals and healthcare centres

• Hospital and medical centre in the territory of Leskovac.

• Hospital and polyclinic in Nis.

• Gerontological Centre in Leskovac.

• General Hospital in Djakovica.

• City Hospital in Novi Sad.

• Gynaecological hospital and maternity ward of the clinical centre in Belgrade.

• Emergency centre in Belgrade.

• Medical centre and ambulance centre in Aleksinac.

Schools

• Elementary schools 16 Oktobar and Vladimir Rolovic in Belgrade.

• Vlahovic, Sangaj and Djuro Danicic and day care centre Duga in Novi Sad and creches in Visarionova Street and in the neighbourhood of Sangaj.

• Traffic school centre.

• Four elementary schools and a medical high school in the territory of Leskovac.

• Elementary school in Lucane.

Public and housing facilities

• Severe damage to the TV RTS studio in Pristina.

• Post office in Pristina.

• Refugee centre in Pristina.

• Tornik ski resort on Mount Zlatibor.

• Divcibare mountain resort

• Baciste Hotel on Mount Kopaonik.

• City power plant in the Krusevac.

• Meteorological station on Mount Kopaonik.

• Four libraries in Rakovica.

Cultural-historical monuments, religious shrines and museums

• 14th century Monastery Gracanica.

• 17th century Monastery Rakovica.

• Church in Jelasnica near Surdulica.

• Monastery of the Church of St Juraj (built in 1714) in Petrovaradin.

• Monastery of Holy Mother (12th century) at the estuary of the Kosanica in the Toplica.

• The fortress of Petrovaradin.

• The Tabacki bridge, four centuries old, in Djakovica.

• The archives housed in one of the government buildings in Belgrade.

• Vojvodina mus eum in Novi Sad.

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