BEFORE Milica Rakic, 3 years old, Belgrade, FRY... Her only sin or guilt (whichever suites you) was that, despite the horror that was happening to her country, she tried to live her short, innocent life... NATO MURDERED THREE YEAR OLD INNOCENT GIRL NATO Cowards Murdered Three-Year-Old Milica Rakic from Batajnica April 19, 1999 Milica Rakic was born in the dawn of January 9, 1996. Brother Aleksa who has now turned six was rejoiced at that moment. Milica was killed on April 17, 1999 at 9:45 p.m. In the little bathroom, in Dimitrije Lazarevic Rasa street, house number 8, first floor, Batajnica. The shrapnels smashed the little window and tore the curtain... Milica was sitting on the night dish, mother Dusica had left the bathroom a few of instants before that and had gone to prepare her bed. For her to sleep in. The door of the bathroom was open, and the shrapnels shot straight through the entrance door. It was yesterday, afternoon. Milica's dress is hanging on the line in the bathroom. It was washed before that, to be ready for an outing on April 18. A red dress, with an embroidered kitten sleeping in a basket. The apartment is a modestly furnished, one and a half piece home. Full of warmth. The warmth is gone. The face of Zarko Rakic (43), father, has suddenly got new lines. Milica's mother Dusica has avoided death by an instant. She wishes she had not. Brother Aleksa is encircled by his pals. - My little sister is gone - says he. The bathtub is full of glass. The lavatory is smashed, the wall tiles broken. - And her little head... - one can hear a voice from the room say. An abrupt explosion, nothing could be heard before that. The face of the house is pierced with holes that have been dug in the white wall of the building number 8. - I ran barefoot into the bathroom - says Zarko. He thinks about the words he has uttered. Then, turns his head around. Meets Dusica's eyes. Looks at us. - I took her, ran down the stairway, rushed into the car... I drove on, although I knew she was gone. I drove on. In the hospital, they took her away from me. Zarko's sister Milka Bogojevic, professor: I heard the detonations. The radio said that Batajnica had been struck. My sister-in-law Dusica answered the phone. She said: Milica has been hit. I did not know what that was supposed to mean... Now I do, and I can't understand. I've left my son Ilija, a six-year-old - Milica's brother. She was his closest... I told the others not to tell him anything. I will do that, if I feel capable. Bogdan Mirilovic (71) a neighbour: - My house is across the street. A detonation was heard. Then I heard a scream. That was the most frightening scream I had ever heard in my life. Then the wailing. Femi Sumeti (37) a neighbour from number 10, recounts that after the explosion everything was covered with black smoke that pricked the eyes. In the house across the street, one of the shrapnels hit Drazen Jankovic (21): When it exploded we all fell down. I was hit in the lower leg.This morning they extracted a piece of shrapnel from my leg but they are suspecting that there may be more left. I used to play with Milica. She was such a joyful little girl. She always used to run around. The bathroom wall tiles are decorated with little pictures - the whole wall right to the door. The door was open. Death shot through the little window. - The doctor told me that the news were unfavourable - says Zoran Blagojevic, Zarko's sister's husband. That was at midnight. What was unfavourable? I asked without being able to reason. Zarko is from Bosanski Petrovac, near Drvar. He came to Belgrade in the late seventies. He met his wife-to-be in Bezanija. Their place of birth was taken by the Muslims. Zakro's father and mother are now in Derventa, he says, and "they live on no man's land and in nobody's house". Zarko is a mechanic, his wife Dusica is a worker. They set up their home in Rasina street, number 8. - Milica made a picture of some tulips the other day - for herself, recounts their cousin Danijela Dukic, a doctor. - Tulips, yellow and red. Their neighbours and their friends sat down on two sofas. Someone mentioned destiny, as well. Do not speak about destiny - said Zarko. Don't anyone tell me about destiny! The atrocious tyrants fired from afar, hitting a military target. Name: Milica Rakic (3). The citizens of Belgrade's Novo Mirijevo suburb, the biggest in Yugoslavia, who were touched by the tragic death of three-year-old Milica Rakic from Batajnica, another suburb of Belgrade, proposed that a street be named after her. Milica was killed on Saturday evening by flying shrapnel from a NATO cluster bomb. "In memory of a childhood which was brutally cut short we propose that a street in our suburb is named after Milica Rakic to symbolize all the innocent victims of the NATO aggression against our country," the residents of Mirijevo said.

AFTER ...she was killed in NATO bombing... These are the pictures from her funeral...