Kosovo commemorates today the 25th anniversary of the massacre in Recak, where Serbian forces killed over 45 innocent Albanian civilians. The former head of the OSCE monitoring mission in Kosovo, Ambassador William Walker, described the Reçak Massacre as a crime against humanity.

On January 15, 1999, 45 unarmed Albanians were barbarically killed and massacred in the village of Recak.

In the early hours of the morning of January 15, Reçak woke up surrounded. According to the witnesses, around 6:30 Serbian forces with heavy artillery started bombarding the village. After the cessation of bombing, Serbian forces entered the village and began raids.

The massacre in Recak horrified the world and awakened the conscience of world diplomacy by mobilizing for Kosovo. The horrors caused in the village of Reçak brought to the attention of the entire civilized world and revealed the truth about the genocidal plan of the ex-criminal Slobodan Milosevic.

After Recak, the Kosovo issue will be at an international conference in Rambouillet and Paris, the failure of which would affect NATO intervention against Serbian military forces, their departure from Kosovo and the establishment of an international administration in Kosovo. writes KosovaPress.

Reçak at that time had taken place in the media and offices of the most influential countries in the world. The former Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, had heard the news and had woken up anxious about what the next hours would bring to Kosovo.

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

After the Reçak Massacre, the 48-hour fighting between the KLA and Serbian forces resumed for the recovery of the corpses. Serbia wanted to eradicate the traces of the crime, but this attempt of theirs failed. The world saw the crime.

For the first time, the missionaries and diplomats of the world were terrified by the horrifying scenes and barbaric massacres committed by the Serbian forces on the Albanian civilian population.