Even after 19 years, Recak requires that the blood of the slain not be lost

Now eight years, every January 15th, 8-year-old Lutfi Bilal comes to Grandpa's grave, who was killed in the Recak massacre. Lutfi, who inherited the name of his murdered grandfather even though he was born long after Recak's massacre, was informed of how his grandfather had died.

He was very proud to bear Grandpa's name, Lutfi Bilal, who had been killed along with about 45 other residents of this village.

My name is Lutfi Bilalli, my grandfather's name has been killed in the war. I know that Grandpa was when it was war fought”, he told me as he stood beside Grandpa's tombstone.

The great - grandfather of eight - year - old Lutfi, the mother of slain Lutfi Bilal, Arife Bilall, who was under pressure and could hardly stand, had not been able to stay home and visit his dead son's grave.

She says she remembers very well the day they took her son and that the pain remains the same as it did that day.

The speaker bear was held on the stone of his son's grave, saying that he expects those who killed his son to be brought to justice and that his blood should not be lost.

I wait outside, I don't expect to lose that blood, whoever loses that blood is cursed. Because their blood doesn't get lost, it's a blood that rain does not leave it with the heat of the sun. It's a heavy blood”, she said.

The death of Recak massacre has also remained Ragip Bajrami, who for his brother Ejup Bajrami the day he was killed remains fresh as it would happen today.

Ejupi, who had just come to his brother's grave each year, is skeptical that his brother's murderers will be brought to justice.

I remember him a lot in deep pain, not just for my brother, but we have 13, this order is all our brothers. It's hard not since, but we know we're facing an evil enemy, but what to do now that our people, our people, are suffering, crying with tears. Those leaders of ours go into rude conversation, they don't think of people, they don't think of these martyrs, they've been breaking their blood, they're stepping on their two legs. They form courts to condemn UCK war crimes, while the UCK has defended the threshold of the house, has not gone to Serbia”, he stressed.

He even says that with these leaders that today Kosovo regret being alive and he sees them coming to pay their respects near the graves of those killed.

While Burim Osmani, who had only been 18 years old by 1999, was beaten and persecuted by the Serbian Army, while his father, Sadik Osmani, had been killed.

The source said that the weather of January 15, 1999, has been the same as the one who reigned today in Recak, and that this weather reminds him of how he was tortured and what was the only one Serbian army had stopped him from the crowd, who had later been killed.

The “has been 19 years and I have completely experienced the massacre of Recak, with my father, who has been a teacher and leader of the country. On that day, January 15, we've been in our home, we've been taken by paramilitary forces from our home, and we've been taken by all of those in this country today from that house. We remember that day as it is today, now 19 years the same weather has been as it is today. That day we were at the home of Sadik Osman, my father, me, my father, and all these residents of Recak village, we were in the basement of the house, from morning till evening after four we were surrounded by Serb military police forces. We've been taken from that basement, tortured in the backyard there in the most brutal forms, we've been lied to even younger than me, then I was 18 years old, 17 years old, got it slaughtered. The last of all the men who separated me after those tortures put me in the basement there locked our door”, he said.

Since The Source had been saved, he showed how they could not leave the village after being surrounded.

And now after 19 years of Recak's massacre, he says he still holds out hope that those who committed this massacre will be brought to justice