Harold Pinter
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On September 10, 2001 I received an honorary degree at the University of Florence. I made a speech in which I referred to the term 'humanitarian intervention'—the term used by NATO to justify its bombing of Serbia in 1999.
I said the following: On May 7,1999 NATO aircraft bombed the marketplace of the southern city of Nis, killing thirty-three civilians and injuring many more. It was, according to NATO, a 'mistake'.
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