The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) and the Humanitarian Law Center Kosovo (HLC Kosovo) have collected data and published a nominal list of victims who lost their lives during the NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. According to this data, a total of 755 people were killed in NATO attacks: 450 civilians and 305 members of armed forces.
Among the civilian victims were 205 civilians of Serbian and Montenegrin nationality, 217 Albanians, 14 Roma, and 14 civilians of other nationalities. With regard to members of armed forces, it was recorded that 275 members of the Yugoslav Army and the Ministry of Internal Affairs were killed, as well as 29 members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). For one individual, it has not been established which armed formation they belonged to.
The youngest civilian victim was two-month-old Fitim Suka, who was killed on May 13th in Koriša/Korishë, while the oldest victim, Gvozden Milivojević, was killed on April 5th in Aleksinac at the age of 93. Among the killed members of the Yugoslav Army and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as many as 106 were under the age of 25, mostly conscripts performing their regular military service.
From a territorial perspective, 261 people were killed in Serbia, 10 in Montenegro, and 484 in Kosovo.
In Serbia, the highest number of civilian victims was recorded in Surdulica, where 29 people were killed in two attacks, followed by Niš (19 victims in multiple attacks), employees of Radio Television of Serbia in Belgrade (16), Aleksinac (15), and the Grdelica Gorge, where 12 people were killed when a moving train was hit.
In Kosovo, numerous Albanian civilians were also recorded among the victims of NATO attacks: 77 people were killed in Koriša/Korishë, where a facility was struck in which civilians had been held overnight by Serbian forces on their way to Albania; 45 civilians were killed in Bistražin/Bishtazhin while moving in a convoy toward Albania; and in the village of Lužane/Lluzhan, 30 Albanian and seven Serbian civilians were killed, along with six members of the Yugoslav Army, when a bus on a bridge was attacked.
The Humanitarian Law Center preserves the memory of the victims of the NATO bombing.
Source of data:Kosovo Memory Book database.
