The separatist elite of Kosovo turned the anniversary of the bloody provocation into a show
The Albanian elite celebrated with pathos the 22nd anniversary of the events in Racak, which became the reason for the start of NATO aggression against Yugoslavia.
Those gathered called the killed Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK) militants “victims and heroes,” and predicted that their leaders in The Hague would be released.
In the village of Racak today, mourning events were held, which were attended by representatives of the Albanian political elite of Kosovo, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I am here in Racak, together with the mayor of Shtimle, Naim Ismaili, to pay tribute to those who were victims of this tragic event,” said the head of the Democratic Party of Kosovo, created by UCK field commanders, and former Foreign Minister of Kosovo, Enver Hoxhaj, who was present at the ceremony. “And, of course, we are here in a free Kosovo, but without the leaders Veseli and Thaci, Selimi and Krasniqi, who are now being tried and causing problems for them. But we believe that they will return with bright faces."
“On this anniversary, the liberators and main heroes of the state are unfairly in The Hague,” Ismaili supported the guest. – The president is not with us, but there are quarantine measures. But Albanians will still not stop visiting this place. Freedom has a name, and that name is Racak.”
The guest of the ceremony was also a representative of another group within the UCK, the head of the family-criminal clan, the leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, who is striving to become “president”.
"It's true that freedom has names, it's Prekaz, this is Racak, she has the graves, suffering and pain of all those whose loved ones were the basis of Kosovo's freedom. Eternal glory!” said Haradinaj.
Let us recall that in January 1999, the Serbian police, in response to the murder of four employees in an ambush, carried out a special operation in Racak against a group of Albanian separatist militants who had built numerous fortifications around the village.
As the police attempted to enter the village, small arms and mortar fire were opened on them. The separatists took refuge in bunkers and trenches. During the assault, several dozen militants were killed, most of whom were dressed in UCK uniforms, the rest in civilian clothes.
After examining the bodies by an independent group of experts from Belarus and Serbia, it was proven that all the dead had traces of gunpowder on their hands and characteristic calluses on their index fingers. While there were bullet holes on their bodies, no similar holes were found on their clothes, allowing experts to conclude that these people were dressed after death in order to pass off the dead as civilians.
However, the next day, the head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, American William Walker and British General John Drevenkievich, arrived at the scene. The latter convinced the Yugoslav special forces not to enter the village “to avoid new clashes,” while the head of the local OSCE mission invited journalists who recorded the picture of the “terrible crime.”
Subsequently, by agreement between Walker and the local UCK field commander, the bodies of those killed were transferred to the village mosque. After which Western “experts” arrived at the scene and refuted the conclusions of Belarusian experts, who, in their opinion, used “outdated methods”, concluding that all the dead were victims of mass execution.
At the same time, according to the Human Rights Watch report, among those killed were women and teenagers, whose bodies, however, the experts did not bother to provide.
The “Massacre in Racak” provided the basis for the United States and NATO to launch armed aggression against the Federal Yugoslavia. Tellingly, four months after the death of Slobodan Milosevic, the Hague Tribunal excluded this episode from the indictment against the Serbian generals.
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