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Relatives of Victims Killed in Yugoslav TV Station During NATO Bombing Campaign Are Still Mourning

Aired April 23, 2000 - 7:26 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Exactly one year ago today, NATO bombs slammed into a Serb television station during one of the many bombing raids on Yugoslavia. Sixteen people were killed at that station and as CNN's Alessio Vinci reports, the victims' family members are still grieving and still have many unanswered questions.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ALESSIO VINCI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Zanka Stojanovic lost her son Neboisha (ph) the night NATO bombed Serb television. He was 26, a technician. She often comes here to light candles in front of a small memorial outside Serb TV headquarters. Sixteen names for 16 people killed and a question, why?

ZANKA STOJANOVIC, MOTHER OF VICTIM: I don't understand. I don't have the explanation and this is why now I don't just ask why anymore but I accuse NATO, President Milosevic and all those who are responsible for this tragedy. I want from them a reason why my son and all the others died that night.

VINCI: In the search for answers, relatives of those killed comfort each other. What hurts them most, they say, is knowing that nobody will ever be punished for what happened.

STOJANOVIC: Nothing can bring my son back now, but at least we would have some kind of satisfaction if we knew that somebody's charged for negligence. Nobody should be allowed to sacrifice people's lives like that.

VINCI (on camera): The strike against Serb television happened more than two weeks after Western officials declared it a legitimate target, a propaganda tool in the hands of President Milosevic. But those who died here were not journalists or television executives, but technicians, security guards and a makeup artist, and their relatives today believe somebody here knew the building was going to be bombed and did nothing to protect those inside.

(voice-over): According to a newspaper report, this notice was posted at the TV station, a Serbian labor law that orders employees to be at work even in a time of war. Attached to it, a memo by the television's general manager, saying the employee who does not fulfill his job obligations according to the mentioned law will be terminated. Zanka Stojanovic says her son was not afraid to go to the TV station because NATO was bombing the transmitters outside town. Before they bomb us, he told her once leaving for work, somebody will alert us. But that call never came.

Alessio Vinci, CNN, Belgrade.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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