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To: Timothy Liu who wrote (8510)	5/15/1999 5:06:00 AM
From: JBL	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

NATO Justifies Attack on Village BBC 5/15/99 NATO has said that it attacked the village in southern Kosovo where up to 100 civilians died on Friday. The Alliance statement went on to say that the village was a "legitimate military target" and NATO deeply regretted any accidental civilian casualties that were caused by the attack. NATO said that the village was being used as a military camp. The contention that the village of Korisa was a military target comes after a night of extensive investigation by NATO following Serb reports that up to eight cluster bombs fell on the village during raids by NATO aircraft on Thursday. NATO said, however, that the village was not hit by cluster bombs. Meanwhile the United Nations Security Council has issued a formal statement in response to NATO's mistaken attack on the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. It expressed "profound regret" for the attack but the statement was not as strongly worded as the Chinese had originally called for. Yugoslav officials insist there were no military targets in the Korisa area. If the Serb account is confirmed, Korisa would be the worst NATO blunder of its air campaign in terms of fatalities. Pictures shot by foreign television crews showed a number of charred bodies - including those of at least two children - smouldering buildings and burned out tractors. Grieving survivors remained in the area with around 50 women and children huddled, weeping in the cellar of a nearby house. According to the Serbian authorities the majority of those killed and injured were women, children and the elderly. They say the victims were part of a convoy of 500 refugees travelling to Albania. BBC correspondent Jacky Rowland, in Pristina, said forensic work is being carried out on the bodies and body parts found at the scene to establish how many died in Korisa. She described scenes of "complete carnage" at the village. She says 79 bodies have so far been removed from the scene but Serb authorities say the final death toll could be higher. The news of the devastation at Korisa came as NATO gave details of what it said was its heaviest 24-hours of bombing in the campaign against Yugoslavia.