NATO bombing of Yugoslavia

start: 1999-03-24 air strikes (Wikipedia), 1999-03-23 Operation Allied Force http://www.nato.int/kosovo/all-frce.htm
end: 1999-06-10 (Wikipedia and NATO)

2016 claims by Dirk Apitz in a conversation in Facebook

Claims

Dirk Apitz: "There was a genocide going on !"
Dirk Apitz: "UN courts condemned Serbs for genocide. And the only reason that a resolution failed was a veto by Russia."
Dirk Apitz: "This was the previous history of Serbs doing ethnic cleansing in one country after another. The world knew what Serbia is capable of."
1. which countries? when? - Dirk Apitz: "Croatia 91-95, Bosnia 92-95, Kosovo 98-99,"
Dirk Apitz: "Bosnia declared independence and Serbia declared war. "
1. Tobias Conradi: "can you provide evidence for this?"
Dirk Apitz: "They had a history of genocide and where doing an ethnic cleansing displacing a whole population, killing everyone who refused to leave. Mass murder you don't classify genocide yet. "
Dirk Apitz: "They were slaughtering each other for three years and it stopped the moment Serbia faced the US army."
Dirk Apitz: "This was the previous history of Serbs doing ethnic cleansing in one country after another. The world knew what Serbia is capable of."
Dirk Apitz: "To me Kosovo and the Armenians saw a genocide"
Dirk Apitz: "Then it was not the US that bombed, but NATO."
Dirk Apitz: "This was a conflict from 1992 to 1995. The conflict between Croatia and Serbia has not been classified genocide, but ethnic cleansing and displacement was going on from both sides, and it's not clear whether Croatian UCK was not responsible for even more atrocities."