Marusic told The Crimson two weeks ago that while the bombings might not stop the genocide, "the likelihood they will stop is greater." Now he calls his former comments "kind of hesitant." The Serbs are "aggressors," he said, adding that the latest news coming from Kosovo is proof of the necessity of the bombings.

"I think the Serbs are the aggressors. They attacked first Slovenia, then Croatia, then Bosnia, then Kosovo...If you look at what happened in Croatia, I can not help but conclude that there's a massive genocide going on in Kosovo," he said.

Kamenica, who recalls running across bridges while being shot at and being captured by the Serbians during the war in Bosnia, agreed that the NATO bombing was necessary.

"The Serb pattern of ethnic cleansing, genocide, and other war crimes has continued basically uninterrupted for almost seven years... [The NATO bombing is] signaling to the Belgrade government that they can't continue with their pattern that they've engaged in for the past seven years," he said.

But students from Serbia said that the bombings were unlikely to accomplish anything, and are making the situation worse.

"I believe and I pray that [peace] will come but I also think that bombing is not going to solve any of the problems," Tanjga said.

"The strikes are not going to achieve anything. In the past 13 days that they've been bombing what we've seen is only the worsening of the crisis," Jovanovic said.

"I also don't see how the airstrikes are going to end because NATO has not really stated a goal that they are trying to achieve so there really isn't a NATO strategy," she added.