In October 1999, President Clinton announced his opposition to allowing emergency heating oil to be supplied to Yugoslavia for the winter months after the war. It was mid-December, a time in Yugoslavia when temperatures frequently fall below zero degrees Fahrenheit. Much of Yugoslavia's oil reserves were destroyed in the bombing. This means U.S. government policy was to freeze Yugoslav people. Systematic attacks on civilian populations have been repeated ever since the Iraq war.
Bombing is combined with economic sanctions for maximum impact.
The heating system is bombed. Sanctions are effected so that it cannot be rebuilt. It's a new form of colonialism. The military establishment is carrying out a war against people abroad, against human beings, who dare to defy the dictates of the IMF and the World Bank. This war was carried out in our name, but we say here before the whole world that the young people and the working people of Yugoslavia are not our enemies.