ABSTRACT
The less visible death and violence brought into play by North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) targeting is notably different from the sites of death and spatial representation via cemeteries. The period from 1989 to 1998 saw violence in Kosovo perpetrated to varying degrees by both sides; these events in their totality were portrayed as critical to NATO’s 1999 targeting decision. The area allocated for burial beneath Tasmajdan is thus a hollowed-out space of death and violence on top of which the modern day foundations of Belgrade were built. The question of human security has meant that the distinctions between the military and the civilian spheres have been eliminated, since violence and threat are ever-present and never-ending. In the intervention’s ‘sanitary’ strikes, technology became an act of violence directed to destroy territorial and urban infrastructure, as well as human bodies, even after its conclusion.
