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“US should have avoided involvement in ethnic conflict”

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Published 24 March, 2009, 21:28

It's ten years since NATO launched its bombing campaign on Serbia during the Kosovo war. Ivan Eeland from the Independent Institute believes the US made things worse through its bombing campaign.

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