1999年美國摧毀了中國駐南斯拉夫大使館,很多中國人認爲這是故意的
During NATO’s 1999 air war over Yugoslavia the Atlantic alliance struck hundreds of targets over Serbia and Kosovo. Most were uncontroversial: air-defense sites army headquarters and other military targets. The destruction of one target in particular however set off a wave of anti-Western—and anti-American in particular—protests half a world away. That target was the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
在北約1999年對南斯拉夫的空襲中，大西洋聯盟對塞爾維亞和科索沃境內數以百計的目標進行了打擊。絕大多數目標都沒有爭議：防空陣地、軍隊指揮部和其他軍事目標。然而對一個特殊目標的摧毀卻在世界另一端掀起了聲勢浩大的反西方特別是反美浪潮。那個目標就是駐貝爾格萊德的中國大使館。NATO’s bombing campaign began on March 24 1999 after peace talks meant to stop the persecution of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo collapsed. Targets in both Yugoslavia and Kosovo were struck—first the Serb air defense network that opposed NATO planes then a broader target array including Yugoslav army forces said to be directly involved in the persecution of Kosovars. The target list also included political-military targets inside the Yugoslav capital of Belgrade itself.
在以結束迫害科索沃境內阿爾巴尼亞族爲目的和平談判破裂後，北約於1999年3月24日開始了轟炸行動。南斯拉夫和科索沃境內的目標均受到了打擊，首先是對抗北約戰機的塞爾維亞防空網絡，接下來是一系列範圍更大的目標，包括被指直接參與迫害科索沃人的南斯拉夫軍事力量。目標清單中還包括南斯拉夫首都貝爾格萊德境內的政治和軍事目標。
Overall twenty-eight thousand bombs and other munitions were exploded over Yugoslavia a country the size of Ohio. William Cohen then secretary of defense characterized Allied Force as “the most precise application of airpower in history.” Some five hundred civilians died in the bombing a remarkably low number for such a high number of munitions expended. In its own account of the campaignNATO stresses that targets were “carefully sexted” and that “massive effort was made to minimise the impact of the air campaign on the Serb civilian population.”
約28000枚炸彈和其他彈藥在只有俄亥俄大小的南斯拉夫境內爆炸。時任國防部長的威廉·科恩將聯軍描述爲“史上最精確的空中力量運用”。500餘名平民在消耗巨量彈藥的轟炸中喪生，這一數字出乎意料的低。北約在自己的作戰報告中着重強調：所有目標都經過“仔細甄別”，並且“付出了巨大努力以將空襲行動對塞爾維亞平民的影響降到最低”。
Despite the seemingly extensive target vetting on May 7 the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was struck by five Joint Directed Attack Munition satellite-guided bombs delivered by U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit bombers. Three Chinese journalists—Shao Yunhuan of Xinhua and Xu Xinghu and his wife Zhu Ying of the Guangming Daily—were killed in the attack. Twenty other Chinese nationals were injured five seriously.
儘管看起來有着大量的目標覈對工作，但在5月7日，中國駐貝爾格萊德的大使館卻被從美國空軍B-2幽靈轟炸機上發射的五枚衛星制導聯合直接攻擊彈藥擊中。三名中國記者——新華社記者邵雲環，光明日報記者許杏虎和他的妻子朱穎在襲擊中身亡。另外20名中國公民受傷5人傷勢嚴重。
