As a part of a NATO policy. the United States military began bombing in Yugoslavia in response to that governments refusal to go along with a plan for NATO "peacekeeping" forces to occupy the Yugoslav province of Kosovo in an effort to stop a civil war and "ethnic cleansing." It appears that President Clinton and other NATO leaders mistakenly thought that bombing specified military targets in Serbia and Kosovo would send a message to Yugoslav President Milosevic that would cause him to quickly embrace the NATO peace plan. It is obvious this was a gross miscalculation. Instead. Serbian forces immediately swept through Kosovo burning homes and driving out thousands and thousands of Kosovars who have become refugees in neighboring states. In the process. many human rights atrocities against the Kosovars in Kosovo have been reported. The response of the United States and its allies has been to step up the bombing program.
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