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title: '"Don''t wait for me!" English-language leaflet 03-Q-09-L004 (Attention VJ Forces), Operation Allied Force'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kosovo-nato-leaflet-dont-wait-for-me-english-1999/
description: Two-sided English-language leaflet, front above back. The front shows an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter banking toward the viewer above the slogan 'Don't
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# "Don't wait for me!" English-language leaflet 03-Q-09-L004 (Attention VJ Forces), Operation Allied Force

Two-sided English-language leaflet, front above back. The front shows an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter banking toward the viewer above the slogan 'Don't wait for me!'; the back, headed 'Attention VJ Forces!', tells Yugoslav Army soldiers that NATO still sees them, that they will face death if they remain in Kosovo, and that they should leave their unit and equipment. The tell is the closed choice, stay and die or desert, joined to a named accusation (genocide on Milosevic's orders) and a personal-responsibility warning.

## Propaganda techniques used in this leaflet

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [False dilemma](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/false-dilemma/)

## Full record

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## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
[Front:]
Don't wait for me!

[Back:]
Attention VJ Forces!

You can hide, but NATO forces still see you.

Remain in Kosovo and face certain death; or leave your unit and your equipment, and get out of Kosovo now.

If you choose to stay, NATO forces will relentlessly attack you, with many different weapon systems, from many different nations, from the land, from the sea, and from the sky.

Stop following Milosevic's orders to commit genocide and other atrocities against civilians in Kosovo.

You are responsible for your own actions, and ultimately will be held accountable.

The choice is yours.

NATO
[code at lower left of back:] 03-Q-09L004
```

Read from a 600 px image; the small code under the back text is read as 03-Q-09L004 and agrees with the Commons caption series and the held Serbian version.

[← "Don't wait for me!" Serbian-language leaflet 03-Q-09-L004, Operation Allied Force](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kosovo-nato-leaflet-dont-wait-for-me-1999/) ["You are a NATO bombing target" English-language leaflet text addressed to named Yugoslav Army units, Operation Allied Force →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kosovo-nato-leaflet-you-are-a-bombing-target-1999/)

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