Recak: a crime against humanity, a massacre or a matter of interpretation?

A completely unknown village, the tragic developments in which the world shook and international politics moved. A village that presented a turning point for both developments in Kosovo and the international community. Just 20 years ago, on January 15th 1999, images of the macabre murder of 45 Albanian civilians in the village of Recak by Serb police and military forces -- associate the world -- writes Koha Ditore today.

The international community, first of all, condemned this inhuman act in the most severe way possible. As a result, Recak influenced the strengthening of unity within European states and necessarily eliminating possible hesitations among them.

For the West, this crime should not be allowed to remain just an inflow of unforeseen developments in Kosovo, since it was clear to them that this act meant only continuing politics (Serbs) by the same means as in Bosnia. William Walker, head of O'S drones The SEU in Kosovo, which on the morning of January 16th on the village hill saw closely the bodies of murdered Albanians, spoke of an unfathomable “-mix1> citing it as a “crime against humanity”. His deputy, German Bernd Borchardt, had without hesitation expressed his view following the discovery of the massacre, that it was “a classic” execution.