The story of Syelejman Kllokoqi, the cameraman who told the world about Reçak
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"Man without a head" is the image that will forever remain in his memory. The footage he shot with his camera on the morning of mid-January ’99 marked a turning point in Kosovo's history. As he walked near the massacred bodies, he cried but did not let go of the camera. In addition to the January cold, war reporter Sylejman Kllokoqi, who works for the Associated Press, recalls the massacred bodies of dozens of innocent Reçak victims.

He will never forget the view of this village, which is not far from Prishtina, that morning where children, adults, and the elderly were brutally killed...
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