{"id":79389,"date":"2026-01-14T14:46:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/?p=79389"},"modified":"2026-01-14T14:46:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:46:42","slug":"recak-an-open-wound-of-kosovo-denial-of-serbian-crimes-threatens-regional-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/recak-an-open-wound-of-kosovo-denial-of-serbian-crimes-threatens-regional-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Re\u00e7ak, an open wound of Kosovo: Denial of Serbian crimes threatens regional peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>The denial of Serbian crimes in Kosovo poses a direct threat to the future, it was said on the 27th anniversary of the Re\u00e7ak massacre, during a scholarly roundtable organized by the Shtime Intellectuals Forum on the topic \u201cSerbian Denial of Crimes and Genocide, Destabilization for the Balkans.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mayor of Shtime, Qemajl Aliu, stated that the Re\u00e7ak massacre marked a major turning point in the history of Kosovo. Among the 400 massacres committed by Serbia, he said, the Re\u00e7ak massacre was internationally denounced, reports KosovaPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also mentioned the indictment filed at the end of last year by the Special Prosecution, which charges 21 Serbian criminals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chairman of the Shtime Intellectuals Forum, Banush Imeri, said that Re\u00e7ak remains one of the heaviest wounds in Kosovo\u2019s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The denial of this massacre by senior Serbian officials, according to Albania\u2019s ambassador to Kosovo, Petrit Malaj, constitutes a direct threat to the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On January 15, 1999, Serbian forces brutally killed 45 Albanian civilians in the village of Re\u00e7ak, Shtime municipality. The first person to tell the world that a crime against humanity had occurred there was the head of the OSCE Verification Mission in Kosovo at the time, William Walker. This tragic event in Re\u00e7ak prompted an international response, leading NATO to target Serbian military and police sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The denial of Serbian crimes in Kosovo poses a direct threat to the future, it was said on the 27th anniversary of the Re\u00e7ak massacre, during a scholarly roundtable organized by the Shtime Intellectuals Forum on the topic \u201cSerbian Denial of Crimes and Genocide, Destabilization for the Balkans.\u201d The Mayor of Shtime, Qemajl Aliu, stated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":79390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,306,296],"tags":[726],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79391,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79389\/revisions\/79391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosovapress.com\/eng\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}