The Third Army — War Diary, Book 2
Seventy-Eight Days in the Embrace of the “Merciful Angel”
The second book of General Nebojša Pavković’s war diary: the last 32 days of the NATO bombing, the withdrawal from Kosovo and Metohija and the first days of peace, June 1999.
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The second book of the war diary of General Nebojša Pavković, commander of the Third Army of the Yugoslav Army in 1999.
It runs from 9 May 1999, the 47th day of the bombing, to the end of the air campaign on 9 June, and continues through the first days of peace and the withdrawal from Kosovo and Metohija to the lifting of the state of war on 26 June 1999. It closes with the author’s conclusion, a chapter written six months later, and appendices.
The book includes the order of 10 June 1999 to survey, mark and decontaminate sites struck with depleted-uranium ammunition, one of the documents later used in the Pavković family’s lawsuit against NATO, described in the book “The War That Never Ended – We Sued NATO”.
Format: PDF e-book, 1,128 pages. First published by the author, Belgrade 2016. Electronic edition: Legal Smart Media, with the consent of the heirs.
Language note: this e-book is currently in Serbian (Latin script). The full English translation is in preparation.
First chapter
The Forty-Seventh Day of Hell, 9 May 1999
(Command Post “Novo Brdo”, 01:00)
The owner of the house where we are quartered offers us supper, although it is past midnight. I am tired, but I accept. Our host reminds us that a new day has begun, one we remember from earlier times as the Day of Victory over Fascism. There is no shortage of remarks that we were once “allies” of those who are bombing us today.
Because of the problems with communications I call the head of the Supreme Command Staff’s Sector for Electronics, Electronic Reconnaissance and Jamming and Communications, Lieutenant General Anđelković, who is my relative. He is not at the Supreme Command Staff’s command post “Karaš”. The duty officer who answers tells me he is inspecting units of the First Army that are conducting a command-and-staff exercise. I cannot believe what I have heard.
“Just imagine, people. While we are here surviving the NATO bombing and stopping the aggressor from breaking through on land, in Belgrade they are holding a staff war exercise,” I say to Generals Lazarević, Kovačević and Đaković. They look at me and say nothing.
From the operations centres of the Third Army and of the Air Force and Air Defence comes word that at 03:15 the aircraft left the airspace over the Third Army’s zone. It is a chance for a short rest.
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