15 January 2009. 17:53

Today is a decade since the armed conflict in the village of Racak in Kosmet, which was the immediate reason for the NATO bombing of FR Yugoslavia, reminds the POLITIKA daily. On January 15, 1999, the Serbian security forces took the action against the members of the terrorist KLA organization and killed 40 of them, and then OSCE Head in Kosmet William Walker described that as a “massacre of civilians”, which was the beginning of the media preparation for the NATO intervention. Investigative judge in Pristina at the time, Danica Maksimovic, has once again confirmed for the POLITIKA that at issue was an armed conflict, of which there has been much evidence, and certainly not a civilian massacre. She was accompanied during the entire time by three OSCE members, who had a clear understanding of the situation. Last year, head of the international forensic team in the Racak case, Helena Renta from Finland, wrote in her autobiography that the report was made under the pressure of William Walker and the Fin Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and she was required to define the 9incident as the Serb crime. In a documentary film of Russian authors, she has also admitted that terrorist bodies were found in Racak. At the trial of Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague, the event in Racak was also described as a massacre, but such qualification was later excluded from the indictment.