[2] Between 9:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. on 17 April 1999, three-year-old Rakić was struck by shrapnel while in the bathroom of her second-floor apartment at 8 Dimitrije Lazarov Raša Street, in the Belgrade suburb of Batajnica.

[2] The same day, Yugoslavia's Minister of Information Milan Komnenić released a statement attributing her death to "NATO cowards".

[10] The final NATO report on the bombing of Yugoslavia made no mention of Rakić's death, even under the category of "special incidents".

[11] Human Rights Watch (HRW) investigators visited the site of her death on 7 August 1999, inspected the damage and interviewed eyewitnesses.

It featured a bronze sculpture of Rakić in front of a marble block inscribed with the words "we were just children" written in Serbian and English.

[13] In 2004, the Tvrdoš Monastery near the town of Trebinje, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, unveiled a fresco of Rakić which contained an inscription describing her as a neomartyr.