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On this day - 24 March

Historical items of interest as featured in the papers of the day.

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NATO bombs Yugoslavia without UN approval

Morning Star 24/03/1934

During the Kosovo war, NATO launched a series of aerial bombing attacks on Yugoslavia which began on March 26th 1999 and carried on until June 10th 1999. NATO tried to seek UN approval for its actions prior to the commencement of the attacks, but was opposed heavily by Russia and China. This led to NATO carrying out the attacks without UN approval.

NATO took these actions due to Yugoslavia's actions against the Albanian population in the region with over 10,000 civilians missing or dead by the end of the war and hundreds of thousands of Kosovar Albanians having been forced out of Kosovo.

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Germanwings Flight 9525 crash

Daily Mirror 24/03/2015
Germanwings Flight 9525 was midway though the scheduled flightpath from Barcelona to Düsseldorf on March 24th 2015 when it crashed in the Alps. There were 150 people on board the flight and all died. The flight crash was found to have been deliberately caused by the co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, who locked the pilot out of the cabin then directed the plan into the mountain. He had been declared unfit to work by his doctor due to suicidal ideation but reported for work without informing anyone.

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