Walker retorts the vulin for Recak, mentions how Vucinic wanted her to hide.

In a conversation with Radio Free Europe, Walker says the Recak massacre, in which Serb forces killed 45 Albanian civilians in January 1999, is an event that no one can deny or modify.

Some of the people who today are promoting [the stipulation] as a big lie have actually been involved in hiding it from the start. I think [Serbia's president, Aleksandar] Vuchy, that's a good example. He has been minister of information in Slobodan Milosevic's time. He has been participating in the decision-making of then”, Walker says.

He holds the Serbian president responsible for “key profile” in hiding crimes that Serbian security forces committed against the civilian population in Recak, but also in other parts of Kosovo.

“He [Alexandar Vuciq] has been involved since the beginning in trying to protect the vulnerable, which is the fact that Serbia's security forces have not only been involved in what happened in Recak, but have been involved in many massacres and crimes against humanity”, Walker says.

At the time, Walker was chief of an observer mission of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSBE). After visiting the site of the massacre, he held a conference in Pristina, where for the first time he declared that what he had seen was “a serious crime against humanity”.

Serbia's Interior Minister, Aleksandar Vullin, again named Friday as “trination” the Recak massacre.

After a visit to a location near Nis, where shoots are being made for events in the village of Recak, Voulin said that the “description of the massacre is a major insult to all mankind”.

Recak's massacre has been one of the crucial moments for the launch of NATO bombings against the Serb Army targets on 24 March, 1999.

“Agrition of NATO began after a terrible lie about Recak. At that time, we were neither capable nor smart enough to tell the whole world what a terrible lie it was. The task of this generation is to show the whole world that we were bombed and made criminals for lies, and our children's blood is upon those who invented this lie”, Voulin was quoted as saying, according to the Serbian Interior Ministry.

According to him, Serbs “will never again allow others to write for them”.

We will never again allow others to invent truth for us, because the truth is on the side of the Serbian people”, Voulin said.

Commenting on this statement by Serbia's Interior Minister Walker, Walker says Serbia strives, through such statements, to build a false ideal for crimes it committed during the war of 1998-99 in Kosovo.

I think maybe Belgrade, at least the Government there, believes that if they repeat the expression "great liar" in Recak, where I was witness and the world was a witness, it's not a big lie, but a great truth”, says Walker.

This is not the first time that Voulin denies the Recak massacre. Authorities in Serbia, led by President Aleksandar Vuciq, have named this massacre “fabricated crime”.

Serbia's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Serbia's Radio Television are in a co-production of a six-data series called “The Kosovo File”, which, as it has been warned, deals with “the history of events and the fate of civilians and police in Kosovo” from 1998 to 2001.

Commenting on Voulin's statements, European Union spokesman Peter Stano tells Radio Free Europe that there is no room for denying the Recak massacre.

Whatever happened in Recak, Kosovo and the atrocities committed there in January 1999 are well documented”, Stano says.

According to him, modification of the events that took place in Recak of the Investment Community is contrary to European Union values and the Western Balkans integration project.

The “E re-exercise that there is no place to deny or underestimate what happened in Recak”, Stano says.

He adds that the EU calls on authorities throughout the region to work for a genuine and true assessment of the past, as, according to him, the region needs reconciliation, stability and normalisation of relations.

Followed: Serbia's strategy to produce a new “history”

Former director of Serbia's Humanitarian Law non-governmental Fund Natasa Ka persecuted, says Serbia's Interior Minister, Aleksandar Vullin, again provides an incorrect mirror of Recak and what has been proven for that crime.

It tells Radio Free Europe that it's Serbia's strategy to produce a new <x0-historic”.

It is his political duty and, while it is in Government and it is his duty to interpret what happened in the past, we have no way out of this climate that has cemented the extreme ethnic nationalism”, says Ka exactly.

It has been persecuted that the investigation of The Hague Tribunal and international organisations has found that these claims are not true

“Human Rights Watch has talked to at least 15 witnesses and the findings are quite precise. Police knew that civilians were also in the village, and action was completely unselectably implemented. It's not exactly the conclusion that civilians were killed during the shootout, but it's been shot at houses where they had sheltered”, Ka persecuted notes.

According to her, the Fund for Humanitarian Law has talked with witnesses and the findings of this fund indicate the inaccuracies of all victims in Recak have been members of the Kosovo Liberation Army.

No data, not from Human Rights Watch, nor from the Fund for Humanitarian Law, that the action in Recak was planned, has ever been questioned”, says Persecuted.

Recak's massacre has also been part of the indictment filed by The Hague tribunal against then former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and several other Serbian officials.

However, the trial has been interrupted after Milosevic's death, and none of the other indictees have been convicted of crimes committed in Recak.