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	Racak incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Racak incident (also called the Racak massacre or Racak operation) was a clash in the Kosovo village of Racak on January 15, 1999 between Yugoslav security forces and Kosovo Liberation Army guerillas, in which 45 Albanians died.
		The Racak incident later featured among the war crimes charges for which Milošević was eventually indicted and put on trial by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
		Racak is a small Albanian-inhabited village in the Stimlje Municipality of southern Kosovo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Massacre_in_Racak (2510 words)

	Activist : The Racak Forensics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The killings on Jan. 15 at Racak, an ethnic Albanian village southwest of Pristina, outraged the international community and became a turning point in the year-long conflict between security forces and the Kosovo Liberation Army, the main ethnic Albanian rebel group fighting for Kosovo's independence from Serbia, the dominant republic in the Yugoslav federation.
		The Yugoslav government contends the victims in Racak (pronounced RAH-chak) were armed separatists or civilians accidentally caught in the crossfire of battle, and that Western powers accused its forces of a massacre in order to justify a push for military intervention in the province.
		We should remember what happened in the village of Racak back in January, innocent men, women and children taken from their homes to a gully, forced to kneel in the dirt, sprayed with gunfire -- not because of anything they had done, but because of who they were.
	users.westnet.gr /~cgian/racakfor.htm (8589 words)

	FAIR MEDIA ADVISORY: Update on Racak
		She emphasized that her investigation into the Racak incident comprised not just the autopsies discussed in the Berliner Zeitung but also a forensic inspection of the crime scene--a small gully in the village of Racak--which was carried out by her team of investigators several months afterward.
		Ranta declined to say definitively whether or not she thought it was a massacre, explaining that she wanted to avoid prejudicing the international war crimes tribunal at the Hague that is working on the case.
		We should remember what happened in the village of Racak back in January -- innocent men, women and children taken from their homes to a gully, forced to kneel in the dirt, sprayed with gunfire -- not because of anything they had done, but because of who they were.
	www.fair.org /press-releases/racak-update.html (1120 words)

	Racak 1999 - Atrocity propaganda 'in vivo.' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the case of the Racak 'massacre', the Albanians were the stage managers, the victims and ultimately, the political benefactors.
		The voice of Serbian and Yugoslav authorities who had invited the media to come to Racak to witness the operation against KLA terrorists was silenced and their allegations that the bodies were KLA terrorists that had fallen in pitched battles with security forces was dismissed as Serb propaganda.
		Racak was organized and carried out by the KLA to create an apparent scenario where the international community would fold to pressure and have no choice but to intervene against Yugoslavia to defend the Albanians.
	www.balkanpeace.org /our/our04.shtml (1212 words)

	Forensic report throws doubt on US/NATO claims of Racak "massacre"
		The Serbian authorities denied their forces had carried out any executions in Racak, and said the bodies could well be those of dead KLA fighters.
		Although the precise circumstances of how those in Racak came to be killed are still unclear, there are compelling political reasons for at least considering an alternative scenario to that presented by NATO and the US.
		If the Racak killings were a deception, aimed at eliciting Western support for the KLA, it would not be the first time that such a subterfuge has been employed in the Balkans.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/feb2001/yugo-f12.shtml (1136 words)

	Serbia Info News / Finish pathologists in the name of the EU: there was no massacre at Racak
		The statement about the massacre at Racak is a lie, an attempt of manipulation aimed at putting the blame on the Serbian police and people, wrote the mentioned French newspapers stating that corpses of killed Albanians were removed and put in a certain position to look like massacred.
		At the entrances to the village of Racak, terrorist groups from trenches, bunkers and fortifications attacked members of the police from automatic firearms, bazookas and mortars.
		Conducting of the investigation scheduled for 17th January 1999 in the period from 8.00 to 13.00, with invitation to Walker (KVM) to verify the procedure of the investigation conducting, did not even begin due to the action of Albanian terrorists with mortars and heavy machine guns from the area of Rance and Petrovo villages.
	www.serbia-info.com /news/1999-03/17/9795.html (2194 words)

	Complete Analysis of the Incident at Racak on Jan. 15,1999 by Chris Soda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This is entirely possible given the known circumstances of both the bodies and the events at Racak on Jan 15/99; the bullet holes between the clothing and the bodies would still line up, and the results of her teams' study of the coagulated blood would just as easily be consistent with uniformed bodies as without.
		I'm sure homes in Racak consisted of men, women, and children - and yet during this so-called indiscriminate "shelling of the village of Racak" we find not even one casualty listed as dying in their home from Yugoslav government bombs; nor is their any mention of women and children running from the shelling.
		Not even residents of Racak are reported to have said this - although in interviews, some of these residents claimed that the Serbian police went into their homes (during a pitched battle!), separated the males, locked the women and children in basements, and removed those males to nearby hilltops where they were executed.
	www.bernal.co.uk /Research/Racak.html (11688 words)

	The "Hoax" Hoax
		In the case of Racak, the consequences were historic and the issues remain unresolved, with Americans positioned on the front lines, although attention to the American presence in Kosovo is drowned out by the current conflicts with al-Qaeda, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
		The Racak massacre account is more or less true, and should appear so to the informed critical observer, regardless of viewpoint on the rights and wrongs of the NATO assault.
		The remaining villagers of Racak would thus be imputed to be terrorists, because they knew about the KLA headquarters in their midst.
	www.spectacle.org /1202/hogan.html (4676 words)

	Encyclopedia: Racak incident (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Racak (Recak in Albanian) is a village in central Kosovo, Serbia and Montenegro, located at 42Â° 25â€² 46â€³ N 21Â° 00â€² 59â€³ E. It became notorious in January 1999 after 45 people were killed in the village during the conflict between state security forces and Albanian guerrillas.
		A war crime is a punishable offense, under international law, for violations of the law of war by any person or persons, military or civilian.
		May 27 is the 147th day (148th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 218 days remaining.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Racak-incident (3714 words)

	The Racak Massacre, A Brief for the Defense
		Public opinion in western countries sees the Racak massacre as the straw that broke the camel's back, the camel being the do-nothing attitude of the west towards a new little Hitler who brought death and instability to the Balkans.
		Thus the Racak massacre would have brought the leaders of the west to realize that the evil dictator in Belgrade must be crushed before he can realize his sick dream of an ethnically cleansed Greater Serbia.
		The next morning newsmen were invited to Racak, now again under KLA control, and were taken to what is described as a sunken path or a gully, at the edge of the village, where they encountered 23 bodies.
	www.kosovoforum.net /racakD.htm (7388 words)

	The Bloodbath in Racak was a Massacre
		That was in November 1999, ten months after the massacre in Racak, in which a total of 45 Albanians were killed, including two women and a child.
		Serb authorities had let it be known that in Racak "several dozens" of soldiers of the Albanian freedom forces UCK [KLA] were slain in the conflict.
		The massacre in the Kosovar village Racak, which in 1999 was the motivation for the NATO bombardments of Yugoslavia, was not staged by Albanians.
	racak.homestead.com /files/ranta.htm (1695 words)

	Carl K. Savich VIEWPOINT: RACAK AND CONSEQUENCES - Propaganda of the Deed - February - March, 2001
		The Racak Massacre was merely an example of a routine propaganda technique known as Propaganda of the Deed, the manufacturing of a propaganda event.
		The Racak Massacre was merely a staged, manufactured propaganda event concocted by the US State Department and the media propaganda machine it controls.
		Racak is a classic example of the Propaganda of the Deed technique in propaganda.
	www.snd-us.com /Liberty/cksavich_propaganda.htm (2812 words)

	Questions about the "Racak massacre"
		French newspaper and television reports today feature evidence apparently ignored by U.S. media, suggesting that the "Racak massacre" so vigorously denounced by the U.S.-imposed head of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) "verifiers" mission to Kosovo, William Walker, was a setup.
		Doubts are cast on the reality of the "Racak massacre" even by LE MONDE, which for years has led the crusade against the Serbs.
		It announced that the police had "encircled the village of Racak with the aim of arresting the members of a terrorist group who killed a policeman" the previous Sunday.
	members.tripod.com /~sarant_2/ksracak1.html (1963 words)

	AIM Report - April A, 2000
		On January 15, 1999, Serbian security forces had gone in force to Racak, a KLA stronghold 15 miles from Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, allegedly to arrest suspects in the killing of a policeman in a village nearby.
		This was the alleged massacre of 45 "innocent civilians" at Racak on January 15, 1999.
		If the AP had reported this, the Racak "massacre" would have been exposed as a hoax and Clinton would not have been able to use it as a justification for launching the air war.
	www.aim.org /publications/aim_report/2000/04a.html (3832 words)

	RACAK WAS A LIE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The following article shows that the so-called massacre at Racak in Kosovo five years ago was an invention of the U.S. "ambassador" William Walker and the imperialist media to attempt to justify the planned military attack on Yugoslavia.
		Finnish pathologist Helena Ranta said the work of the Hague tribunal regarding the so-called Racak massacre was incomprehensible.
		Western politicians used the tragedy in the village of Racak, where 40 Albanians died exactely 5 years ago, to prove to the public that the upcoming NATO attack on Yugoslavia was necessary.
	www.iacenter.org /rc/rcak.htm (493 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Racak massacre haunts Milosevic trial
		Of all the charges against former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, the first crime most likely to be dealt with in detail is the massacre at the village of Racak.
		Racak remains one of those timeless places which looks and feels much as it did hundreds of years ago.
		The Serbs claim that Racak was a base for fighters from the Kosovo Liberation Army.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1812847.stm (485 words)

	BBC News \| Inside Kosovo \| Clickable Map
		The killing of 45 ethnic Albanian men and women in Racak proved a major turning point on the road to confrontation - and is included in the Milosevic indictment.
		Monitors found 22 of the dead, all of whom were wearing civilian clothes, in a gully outside the village.
		Jacky Rowland in Racak: "I counted the bodies, they were all men"
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/inside_kosovo/racak.stm (186 words)

	Human Rights Watch, Kosovo: Focus on Human Rights
		As the police were in the Racak, many villager made their way, running and hiding, to the large house of Sadik Osmani near the place called, in Albanian, Kodra e Bebushit.
		Members of the OSCE's Kosovo Verification Mission (KVM) entered Racak late in the afternoon of January 15, after having been prevented from entering the area during the day by VJ and police forces.
		On January 18, Chief Prosecutor of the ICTY, Louise Arbour, attempted to enter Kosovo through Macedonia in order to "investigate the reported atrocities in Racak." She did not have a Yugoslav visa, having been denied one by the authorities, and was refused entry into the country.
	www.hrw.org /campaigns/kosovo98/racak.shtml (2759 words)

	Liberation 21 Janury 1999 : "Nine questions concerning the Racak dead"
		In the fall, a massacre, of a family with babies, in Gornje Obrinje, affected world opinion and moved NATO to act; Belgrade was menaced with airstrikes and the mediator R. Holbrooke got S. Milosevic to stop the campaign which had sent thousands of refugees onto the roads.
		If the villagers had truly informed the OSCE that 24 men had been taken away, why does OSCE not say where they got that information, nor who were those observers, and why do they insist that none of their teams were in the village the night in question.
		The movements of troops or a crowd in a village, battles in the hills, are thus observable from the sky.
	www.srpska-mreza.com /ddj/Racak/Articles/Liberation990121_Eng.html (2033 words)

	The Racak Massacre
		In the investigation of the victims from Racak, 60% were autopsied either by ourselves or in our presence, and for 40% we performed an external examination.
		Slobodan Milosevic accuses the West of fabricating a massacre at Racak as a pretext for NATO intervention.
		Albanians who stated that Racak victims were KLA fighters apparently did so under torture by Serbian police, according to testimony at the trial of Milosevic.
	www.glypx.com /BalkanWitness/racak.htm (2432 words)

	FAIR Misrepresents the Racak Massacre
		In an interview reported in two articles in the March 10, 2001 issue of the respected Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad, she characterizes the Berliner Zeitung article and similar articles as “nonsense.” She completely rules out the Serbian scenario, that the Albanians were KLA soldiers.
		Subsequent visits to Racak by the forensic team, as described above, provided more data, and a supplementary report was submitted to the ICTY on June 21, 2000.
		Subsequent visits to Racak by the forensic team established further details of the killings and were incorporated in a report completed in July 2000.
	www.glypx.com /BalkanWitness/fair.htm (2318 words)

	Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
		Troubling questions soon emerged, however, about whether or not there had actually been a massacre at Racak, or whether the incident had been manipulated to push NATO into war-- questions almost completely ignored by the U.S. media at the time.
		According to the Berliner Zeitung (1/16/01), the Finnish investigators could not establish that the victims were civilians, whether they were from Racak, or even exactly where they had been killed.
		News outlets continue to refer to the Racak massacre without qualification, despite the cloud of uncertainty hanging over the story.
	www.commondreams.org /news2001/0201-16.htm (625 words)

	A WEEK OF TERROR IN DRENICA
		Together, the testimonies suggest a well planned and executed attack by government forces on civilians in Racak, where the KLA had a sizable presence and had conducted some ambushes on police patrols.
		The attack on civilians in Racak is one in a long series of war crimes committed by the Yugoslav Army and Serbian police during the Kosovo conflict.
		One young women said that the police stayed on the hill singing songs and calling her relative by name in the Albanian language (“Aziz, comehere to see your dead relatives!”), which suggests that local policemen from Stimlje who were familiar with the residents of Racak may have participated in the attack.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1999/kosovo/Obrinje6-07.htm (3585 words)

	Behind the Headlines
		Racak, a stronghold of the UCK, was that morning swarming with armed Kosovars, who escorted the media to the alleged massacre site.
		For the Racak "massacre" was cited not only by Clinton but also by German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer as "the turning point" when the moral imperative of making war on Serbia became apparent.
		The road to Racak has been renamed "Rruga William Walker," after the US diplomat who declared on the spot that "From what I saw, I do not hesitate to describe the crime as a massacre, a crime against humanity.
	www.antiwar.com /justin/j070201.html (2693 words)

	Serbs also killed in Racak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		BELGRADE -- Monday – Five years after the alleged massacre in the Kosovo village of Racak which eventually led to the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, Finnish pathologist Helena Ranta, who led forensic investigations into the case, has said for the first time that Serb security troops were also killed.
		Ranta told B92 today that she had received information about the death of Serb troops in Racak in 1999.
		Asked why, of 45 bodies transferred from Racak to a nearby mosque, only forty were eventually delivered to the Pristina Forensic Institute, Ranta said she had did not know.
	www.slobodan-milosevic.org /news/b92011904.htm (190 words)

	Sorting Through the Lies of the Racak Massacre.. (by Stephen Gowans) - Media Monitors Network
		It was Walker, at the time head of the Kosovo Verification Mission (KVM) who, on the morning of January 16, 1999, led the press to the Kosovar village of Racak, a KLA stronghold.
		The film showed that as soon as the Serbs entered Racak they came under heavy fire from KLA guerillas positioned in the surrounding hills.
		The KLA, the Serbs charge, faked the massacre by laying out their fallen comrades in the trench they, themselves, prepared, and the United States used the staged massacre as a pretext for the bombing.
	www.mediamonitors.net /gowans1.html (1584 words)

	Bad Subjects: Racak, Mon Amour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The bodies of Racak villagers stretched out in a Kosovan mosque repeat and extend this decade's history of massacre in the Balkans.
		Those unnamed Racak villagers, lying in rows beneath a bare glass bulb, are the product of a nationalism that punishes assertions of equal history, of equal humanity.
		We are all from Racak — we bear their names.
	bad.eserver.org /editors/1999/1999-02-03.html (745 words)

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