Europe had long forgotten these macabre scenes since the end of World War II.
The Racak massacre was evidence that shocked the international community and made them understand the truth of what was happening in Kosovo.
Ethnic cleansing of the Albanian population by Serbian forces. The horror of Recak in Shtime became the main reason for NATO intervention in Kosovo. The world became aware of the reality that the Albanians of Kosovo were experiencing.
"Over 460 massacres were committed in Kosovo by Serbian Chetnik paramilitary forces", said Hysni Gucati from the War Veterans Organization, KLA, to Inside Story.
Another large-scale massacre took place in Gjakova. In April 1999, 376 Albanian men and boys were executed. Their bodies were later found in mass graves in Serbia, in Batajnica.
241 civilians were killed in the Kruše e madhe massacre in Prizren in March 1999. The village was burned to the ground and the women were forcibly evicted. In the Suhareka massacre, over 50 members of the Berisha family were killed. They were shot in their home.
In the Poklek Massacre, 54 Albanians, mostly women and children, were mercilessly burned alive in a house. In the Izbica Massacre, 147 unarmed civilians were executed in the village.
Further on in Peja, 44 civilians were shot. In the Qyshku Massacre, houses were also burned. This village became a symbol of crimes against the civilian population in Dukagjin. Dozens of civilians were also killed in the massacre of Pastor, a small village in Gjakova.
98 men were shot and their bodies thrown into mass graves in Skenderaj in what is known as the Rezallë Massacre. In the Dubrava massacre, Serbian forces executed 160 prisoners following NATO bombing.
According to data from the United Nations Commission and the Government of Kosovo, during the war: over 13.500 Albanians were killed or disappeared. 20 thousand women were mistreated and raped. Over 800 thousand Albanians were expelled from their homes. The most inhuman torture, murders, rapes of women and girls, imprisonment, mass shootings.
"There are over 13,500 Albanians executed, massacred, 120,000 homes and properties of Albanians burned and destroyed, 20,000 women and girls raped by Serbian soldiers and police. There were 3600 Albanians missing, of whom 1660 are still missing today, there are 1492 children massacred," said political scientist Enver Bytyci.
Not only have these crimes not been punished, but today, the war has given way to new dangerous scenarios. This time without weapons, tanks and combat ammunition. With diplomacy. What it could not achieve on the battlefield, Serbia seeks to achieve in The Hague, changing history by desecrating the war of the Kosovo Liberation Army. By treating the victims, the freedom fighters, as criminals. Former KLA commanders, Hashim Thaçi, Jakup Krasniqi, Kadri and Rexhep Selimi have been held in solitary confinement in The Hague prison since November 5, 2020.
"The Kosovo Special Court in The Hague came about as a result of the accusations of Dick Marty, a Swiss member of the Council of Europe Assembly, a member of the Swiss parliament who raised scandalous accusations in response to the criminal activity of KLA soldiers," said political scientist Enver Bytyci.
"If there is justice somewhere, it is not easy to overturn everything we have done, but apparently there is no justice in Europe," said Hysni Gucati from the War Veterans Organization, KLA.
With materials and false witnesses coming from Serbia to The Hague, they accuse the liberators of Kosovo. Placed before an international court established under pressure from Kosovo's allies to dispel any doubts about the KLA war, they actually make every effort to do the opposite. Kosovo's own MPs voted to establish the special court.
It all started with the accusation of the existence of the yellow house, which turned out to be a farce.
"The accusations were extreme, up to accusations of transplanting internal organs of Serbian victims raped by the commandos and the KLA, accusations of a yellow house supposedly built on the white stone, in the Mati district, inside Albania or in Cahan i Has, accusations that were fabricated and have been fabricated by the Serbian secret service by the general prosecutor for war crimes in Serbia and were given to Dick Marty to propagate.", said political scientist Enver Bytyqi./TCH/
