On This Day NATO Has Bombed Yugoslavia (Why is this so important)

The attacks began on March 24, lasted 11 weeks, and according to estimates of various sources, between 1,200 and 2,500 people were killed in them.

In the 78-day bombardment, infrastructure, businesses, schools, medical institutions, media outlets, cultural monuments were badly damaged.

The attacks on Yugoslavia began on March 24, 1999 just before 8 pm on the orders of the then NATO Secretary General Javier Solana, and the Yugoslav government proclaimed the state of war that night

The NATO action, which the FRY government, and numerous legal experts called aggression, followed after unsuccessful negotiations on a solution to the Kosovo crisis in Rambouillet and Paris, February and March 1999.

Different data was provided on the material damage caused to Yugoslavia during the bombing. The then authorities in Belgrade estimated damage to about $ 100 billion and asked for compensation from NATO members.

A group of economists G17 estimated the damage to 29.6 billion dollars.

The bombing of Yugoslavia ended on June 10, with the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1244.

A day earlier, on June 9, representatives of the Yugoslav Army and NATO signed a Military-Technical Agreement in Kumanovo which specified the withdrawal of VJ forces from Kosovo and the entry of international military troops.

The VJ units withdrew from Kosovo after the adoption of the UN resolution, and the first international troops entered the territory of Kosovo from Macedonia on June 12, 1999.

This was until then the largest operation of the Alliance, and most of the soldiers came from Germany, France, Italy and the United States.

According to UNHCR, Kosovo has left about 230,000 Serbs and Roma since the arrival of peacekeepers, and about 800,000 refugees returned.

This is important because NATO has successfully pulled off their first-ever "low-intensity conflict" tactics.
And to put it simply that tactic goes something like this:
Theirs's a bad communist dictator out their killing people. We need to stop him and install democracy by any means!

Sound familiar?

Our Milosevic was; Sadam, Gadafi, Bashar Al-Assad... So Yugoslavia (Serbia) was the first ever: Iraq, Iran, Afganistan, Syria

And the result of this operation? Military base "Camp Bondsteel".

Camp Bondsteel is not open to inspections by the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), which has the right to visit all "places of detention" of the member states of the Council of Europe. Negotiations with KFOR were underway, but they have been suspended since Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence was not recognized by the Council of Europe. The United States Army has been criticised for using the base as a detention facility, and for the conditions faced by the detainees there. In November 2005, Alvaro Gil-Robles, the human rights envoy of the Council of Europe, described the camp as a "smaller version of Guantanamo" following a visit. In response, the US Army stated that there were no secret detention facilities in the Camp.

Camp has been built after Kosovo war and is a direct result of NATO intervention (Operation Allied Force), thus is build without any international approval (OUN; Republic of Serbia who was de jure owner of land until 2008).