Serbian president denies Kosovo massacre

Gazeta Express

05/12/2019 17:28

Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic has reacted Thursday after the Basic Court in pristina sentenced a former Serb minister in Kosovo Government to two years in prison for inciting ethnic hatred when he denied a massacre of Kosovo Albanian civilians in Recak in 1999.

Vucic said conviction of former Kosovo minister of Local Government Administration, Ivan Todosijevic, was “terrible” and reiterated the same statement Todosijevic said in March 2019 that the Recak massacre was “fabricated.”

“All members of the Srpska List will reiterate the same thing, and I will reiterate now – the crime in Recak was fabricated, when everything was falsified by the world falsifier, thief and vagabond called William Walker,” said Vucic referring to former head of the OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission during the war in Kosovo. Walker after visiting the village Recak and saw the massacred bodies declared that this was “a crime against humanity”. The Recak massacre, in which 45 Kosovo Albanian civilians were killed by Serbian forces in January 1999, prompted NATO’s intervention to stop the war and ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. Vucic during Kosovo war was minister of Information in the Government of ex-president Slobodan Milosevic who died in The Hague in 2006 while on trial for war crimes. /GazetaExpress/