April 8th, 1999

Explosion 200m far away

    The nearest detonation, which happened to me, was on 200-300 metres when NATO has bombed the petrol reserves of Heating plant in Belgrade. During that time, I was sleeping in the small wooden house by the other side of river which separates us from the place which was bombed.

    By the way, I'm situated in the weekend camp where about 2000 refugees live, all kind of nationalities. They live here since the war in Croatia and Bosnia.

    There is no shelter near this camp. So, my protection was not so good. I woke up - the detonation was horrible, the sky was full of the smoke and fire and I run out frightened.

    Fortunately, the windows were not broken, but the wall was a little damaged.

Tamara,
age 22, student of Mathematics