Kurt in Recak: Denying Justice Is Continued Crime Against Our People

Family and citizens today are paying their respects and honoring martyrs who fell 21 years ago at Recak Massacre.

On the 21st anniversary of Recak's Massacre, which is considered the most painful massacre of humanity in Kosovo's history, Vetevendosje Movement leader Albin Kurti paid tribute to the cemetery of martyrs with crérast, said it is the duty of local institutions that all those who ordered and carried out this massacre be punished.

Until he said Recak's massacre awareness of the democratic world and brought NATO's intervention, Kurti said that denied justice represents continued crime against the people and the state of Kosovo.

“Lajm for Recak's Massacre shocked and terrified Kosovo but briefed and alarmed the democratic world and international diplomacy. Recak's massacre was crucial for NATO to bomb Milosevic's Yugoslavia....21 years later there is no justice for victims and families, and this denied justice represents continued crime against our people, our people, against our country, is the duty of our local institutions and our international partners to bring justice, to add pressure on Serbia so that all criminals who executed and those who ordered the Recak massacre to be brought before judicial processes and be punished<1>, Kurti said.

On January 15, 1999, 45 unarmed Albanians were murdered and massacred in Recak.

Shortly after conducting this barbarous act by Serbian paramilitary forces, major international powers decided on the intervention of NATO in Kosovo.