Today marks 19th anniversary of the Recak massacre

The president of the Republic of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, and Kosovo Assembly Speaker Kadri Wessel will pay their respects at the Recak Memorial Complex, as well as participate in a memorial academy organised in this case in the care of Kosovo Republic President.

Former O Mission Chief The SEU in Kosovo, Ambassador William Walker, had singled out the Recak massacre as a crime against humanity.

On January 15, 1999, 45 unarmed Albanians were murdered and slaughtered in the village of Recak.

Early in the morning hours of January 15th, Recak woke up surrounded. According to witnesses, at around 6:30 p.m., Serbian forces with heavy artillery have begun bombing the village. After the bombing ended, Serbian forces have entered the village and the raids have begun.

Recak's massacre terrified the world and awakened the conscience of world diplomacy by mobilizing for Kosovo. The horrors caused in the village of Recak brought the entire civilized world into focus and revealed the truth about former criminal Slobodan Milosevic's genocide plan.

After Recak, the Kosovo issue will be at an international conference in Rambouillet and Paris, whose failure to succeed would influence NATO's intervention against Serbian military forces, their departure from Kosovo and the deployment of international administration in Kosovo, writes Kosova Prees.

Rezacking that world had taken place in the media and Chancellors of the most influential states in the world. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had heard the news and had waken up anxious about what the next hours of Kosovo would bring.

Meanwhile, O mission chief The SEU, William Walker, had gone to the scene of crime very quickly and had pointed his finger at the valley of massacre, defining the crime in three words: crime against humanity.

Following Recak's massacre, fighting 48 hours again between the KLA and Serbian forces for the seizure of corpses resumed. Serbia wanted to eliminate the crime trail, but their attempt failed. The world saw crime.

For the first time by the thrilling scenes and the barbarous massacres of Serb forces in the Albanian civilian population, missionaries and diplomats of the world had also been terrified.