{"id":46972,"date":"2023-01-15T12:11:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T11:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/?p=46972"},"modified":"2023-01-15T16:00:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T15:00:54","slug":"24-years-since-the-recak-massacre-where-45-albanians-were-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euronews.al\/en\/24-years-since-the-recak-massacre-where-45-albanians-were-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"24 years since the Recak massacre where 45 Albanians were killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\">Kosovo commemorates today the 24th anniversary of the Re\u00e7ak Massacre, where over 45 innocent Albanian civilians were killed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\">The former head of the OSCE monitoring mission in Kosovo, Ambassador William Walker, described the Recak Massacre as a crime against humanity. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\">On January 15, 1999, 45 unarmed Albanians were barbarically killed and massacred in the village of Re\u00e7ak. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\">In the early hours of the morning of January 15, Re\u00e7ak woke up surrounded. According to witnesses, at around 6:30 a.m. Serbian forces with heavy artillery started bombarding the village. After the bombing stopped, Serbian forces entered the village and began raids.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\">The Re\u00e7ak massacre horrified the world and awakened the conscience of world diplomacy by mobilizing for Kosovo. The horrors caused in the village of Re\u00e7ak brought to the attention of the entire civilized world and revealed the truth about the genocidal plan of the ex-criminal Slobodan Milosevic. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\">After Recak, the issue of Kosovo will be at an international conference in Rambouillet and Paris, the failure of which would affect NATO&#8217;s intervention against Serbian military forces, their departure from Kosovo and the establishment of international administration in Kosovo. writes KosovaPress. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\">Recak at that time had a place in the media and chancelleries of the most influential countries in the world. The former Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, had heard the news and had woken up anxious about what the next hours would bring to Kosovo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\">Meanwhile, the head of the OSCE mission, William Walker, had gone to the scene of the crime very quickly and had pointed his finger at the valley of the massacre, defining the crime in three words: Crime against humanity. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\">After the Recak Massacre, the 48-hour fighting between the KLA and the Serbian forces resumed for the recovery of the corpses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\"><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\"> Serbia wanted to eradicate the traces of the crime, but this attempt failed. The world saw the crime. For the first time, missionaries and diplomats of the world were horrified by the horrific scenes and barbaric massacres that the Serbian forces carried out on the Albanian civilian population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" data-placeholder=\"Translation\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kosovo commemorates today the 24th anniversary of the Re\u00e7ak Massacre, where over 45 innocent Albanian civilians were killed. The former head of the OSCE monitoring mission in Kosovo, Ambassador William Walker, described the Recak Massacre as a crime against humanity. 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