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Friday, April 23, 1999 Published at 17:01 GMT 18:01 UK
Nato strikes: Week four ![]() Week five: Nato tightens grip Week four: Refugees hit Week three: Nato reinforces Week two: Refugee exodus Week one: Strikes begin
Meanwhile, there was a fresh surge of refugees
out of Kosovo, and
air strikes across
Yugoslavia continued.
Follow the third week of the Nato campaign in this day-by-day guide. Read the main stories, BBC analysis and the best video and audio clips.
Use the options on the left to return to latest news and other current BBC coverage. Nato strikes: Day 28 (20 April)
Nato says Yugoslav forces have extended ethnic cleansing operations beyond Kosovo to villages inside Montenegro, as Tony Blair describes the continuing air strikes as a just cause.
Analysis Nato strikes: Day 27 (19 April)
Nato admits its warplanes may have caused civilian casualties in attacks on two convoys in Kosovo.
Analysis Nato strikes: Day 26 (18 April)
Aid agencies in northern Albania report the first cases of malnutrition among children crossing from Kosovo, as thousands continue to flee. Meanwhile, Nato aircraft again bomb targets across Yugoslavia, with the city of Novi Sad hit hard.
Multimedia Nato strikes: Day 25 (17 April)
A further 100,000 Kosovo Albanian refugees are believed to be heading towards Macedonia. The US holds a Yugoslav officer prisoner.
From Our Own Correspondent Nato strikes: Day 24 (16 April)
Nato widens its campaign of air strikes, pounding key sites across Yugoslavia overnight amid political fall-out from its bombing of a refugee convoy in Kosovo.
Risk to civilians rising The view from America Crisis unites Albanians Multimedia Jon Leyne: Nato bombs spoke louder than words Bombing increases Milosevic support: John Simpson in Belgrade
Nicholas Witchell reports on the questions which remain unanswered
Nato strikes: Day 23 (15 April)
Nato admits it bombed a refugee convoy near Prizren, leaving Kosovo refugees dead after a pilot mistook the civilian vehicles for Yugoslav military units.
Fog of war shrouds refugee deaths Multimedia Tony Blair comments on the attack
BBC Newsnight's David Sells on "Nato's holy war"
Nato strikes: Day 22 (14 April)
Dozens of refugees are reported killed in attacks on two civilian convoys in Kosovo, amid conflicting claims about who is to blame.
The mood in Belgrade Multimedia Katty Kay: "Hideous devastation"
An eyewitness describes the attack
UK Defence Secretary George Robertson: "Hardened criminals terrorising Kosovo"
Nato strikes: Third week (7 - 13 April)
Full BBC coverage of the third week of Nato's action with links to original stories, transcripts + BBC audio and video reports. BBC reports include: Heaviest bombardments of Serbia so far, Nato brings in large-scale reinforcements, Nato missile hits passenger train, killing ten people, refugee crisis continues, Nato ground troops sent to Albania. Nato strikes: The second week (31 March - 6 April)
Full BBC coverage of the second week of Nato's action with links to original stories, transcripts + BBC audio and video reports. BBC reports include: Nato intensifies bombing, central Belgrade and key bridges hit, refugee exodus from Kosovo increases massively, three US soldiers captured by Serbia. Nato strikes: The first week (24-30 March)
Full BBC coverage of the first week of Nato's action with links to original stories, transcripts + BBC audio and video reports. BBC reports include: First raids, reports of scorched earth policy in Kosovo, Nato loses Stealth fighter, refugees tell stories of atrocities, Nato starts round-the-clock air attacks, Russian mediation comes to nothing. Build-up to conflict
Details of the negotiations at Rambouillet, the earlier massacre at Racak and the history of the conflict stretching back to March 1998. With links to original stories, transcripts, BBC audio and video reports. |
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