Archive · War Reports
In March 1999, Argyris Dinopoulos, a correspondent for Antenna (ANT1), covered the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia from Belgrade. He stayed in the capital until June 1999, broadcasting from the sites of the strikes. Years later he returned to the Balkans for Kosovo — in 2006 again for Antenna, in 2007 for ERT — as the region moved toward independence; it was his last journalistic assignment in the Balkans, closing a course that had taken him, as a reporter, through every phase of the wars of the former Yugoslavia. The dossier opens with the Kosovo documentary and gathers the documentaries and reports from Belgrade, alongside the photographic archive.
The documentary records Kosovo as it moves toward independence — a society tested by war and mass displacement, full of contradictions. For Dinopoulos it was the "last act" of the break-up of Yugoslavia — a course that, by his reading, had its roots in Kosovo itself as far back as 1989.
The documentary connects his 1999 Belgrade archive with his post-war returns to Kosovo and closes the circle of his Balkan reporting.
Dinopoulos's longer documentary on the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia: reports from the sites of the strikes across the country, where — as he recorded — there were casualties among the civilian population too. The heaviest attacks fell inside the capital itself, a short distance from the foreign correspondents' hotel, and the reports capture the tension of the war almost in real time.
A longer documentary on Kosovo in the years after the 1999 war, focusing on the destruction of Orthodox churches and monasteries in the post-war period. Kosovo, Dinopoulos notes, was "the beginning and the end" of the Yugoslav tragedy.
Live Dispatches — Belgrade Live television dispatches from bombed Yugoslavia, March–June 1999 — excerpts from the coverage of a reporter who had followed the wars of the former Yugoslavia from their start.
Belgrade — The Bombings A short excerpt from the longer "Belgrade" documentary, on the strikes inside the capital during the 1999 bombing.
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