NATO'S WEEK OF SLAUGHTER

TUESDAY 27 APRIL

NATO massacres at least 20 civilians when it bombs the village of Surdulica, Serbia. The youngest victim is three years old. "We found the head of a child in a garden and many limbs in the mud," says one survivor. NATO claims it has had "a good day".

WEDNESDAY 28 APRIL

Bombs kill four, including two small children, in a Gypsy settlement in the Prizren area. One person killed in the Podgorica area.

THURSDAY 29 APRIL

A 61 year old woman, Paska Juncaj, murdered by NATO cluster bomb dropped in Montenegro.

FRIDAY 30 APRIL

Montenegran village of Murino is hit by ten missiles. Five people killed, including two children. Four Kosovan Albanians blown up in Ariljaca, near Pristina. Another ethnic Albanian dies of shrapnel wounds after nearby Medvedce was hit. Planes bomb homes near Belgrade University. Three are killed, including one man cut in two when a bomb hits his car. One person killed and 17 injured when bombs blast Trstenik in Serbia.

SATURDAY 1 MAY

Sixty people massacred, including children, when a passenger bus on the Lujane Bridge, near Pristina, is hit (victim pictured above). The bomb slices the bus-full of mothers and children-in half. Journalists witness 15 burned bodies in the charred remnants of the bus. Eyewitnesses say the plane then bombs the bridge and bus a SECOND time. Bombers kill five people when missiles strike the Kurilo district of Prizren, Kosovo.

SUNDAY 2 MAY

A woman is killed during the bombing of the town of Mitrovica.

MONDAY 3 MAY

Reports of NATO blowing up a second bus in Kosovo within the space of 72 hours, butchering at least ten people.