[4], On 15 January, reports were received by the Kosovo Verification Mission (KVM), an unarmed observer force from the OSCE, of civilians being killed in Račak. In elf Fällen war ein anhaltender Beschuss wahrscheinlich. German: "Der Krieg um die 40 Toten von Racak im Kosovo Massaker oder "nur" die Opfer eines Tages? He told the media that he suspected that the bodies had been mutilated posthumously to fabricate the appearance of an execution. ", The journalists also provided first-hand accounts of the discovery of the bodies. 39 der Untersuchten waren männlich, einer war weiblich. [3] NATO's involvement in the Kosovo conflict in the months postdating the Račak incident altogether lasted 78 days and consisted of a series of tactical airstrikes against critical targets of military or strategic import. The report concluded that "there was no evidence that the victims had been anything other than unarmed civilians and that they had probably been killed where they were later found by the international monitors. Rene Girard: "The images filmed during the attack on the village of Račak contradict the Albanians' and the OSCE's version". They were denied permission to interview the villagers or explore the area around the village.[4]. A Finnish forensic team working for the European Union subsequently conducted a second post-mortem, which was more detailed but less contemporaneous than the first. Das durchschnittlich geschätzte Alter betrug 43 Jahre. Juni 2002, Tuesday, 06.11.2002 – trial in three (3) segments 09:30 – 13:45, Wednesday, 06.12.2002 – trial in two (2) segments 09:30 – 16:00, Transkript zur Zeugenvernehmung von William Graham Walker vor dem ICTY, 12. The men in black appeared to be in control and wore balaclavas over their heads. more_vert [4], On 8 and 10 January, the KLA mounted attacks on Serbian police posts in the neighboring municipalities of Suva Reka and Uroševac, killing four Serbian policemen. "Wenn Botschafter Walker sagt, dass es sich in Racak um ein Massaker gehandelt habe, hat diese Aussage keinerlei rechtliche Wirkung. [4] Liberation, Paris 21. The report was widely understood as saying that the Finnish team had disproved the finding released by the Yugoslav and Belarusian pathologists, whose tests had shown a positive for gunshot residue on the hands of 37 out of the 40 bodies. [33], Three forensic examinations were carried out on the bodies, by separate teams from FR Yugoslavia, Belarus (at the time an ally of Serbia) and Finland (under the auspices of the European Union). Das "Massaker von Racak" wird immer wieder bemüht, um die absolute Notwendigkeit der "Luftschläge" (Schröder) darzulegen. KVM monitors attempted to gain access to the area but were refused permission by security forces despite strong protests. The Contact Group also called for Yugoslav authorities to "work with the International Tribunal to ensure that those responsible for Račak are brought to justice [and] suspend those VJ and MUP officers operating in Račak on 15 January pending the results of this investigation becoming available".[46]. Mai 2002, Transkript zur Zeugenvernehmung von Zeuge K41 vor dem ICTY, 6. März 2005, Monitors’ Reports Provide Chronicle Of Kosovo Terror, Transkript zur Zeugenvernehmung von Franz-Josef Hutsch vor dem ICTY, 12. : Petrove) bei einer Razzia getötet wurden, nachdem zuvor ein Polizist getötet worden war. Sechs der 40 Untersuchten hatten nachhaltige postmortale Beschädigungen, höchstwahrscheinlich von Tieren zugefügt. Ranta stated that "...medicolegal investigations [such as scientific analysis of bodies] cannot give a conclusive answer to the question whether there was [in fact] a battle [between the police and insurgents]...", but she leaned towards the victims being non-combatants in part because "...no ammunition was found in the pockets" of the bodies she investigated. Was waren … Juni 2002, Lista e kosovarëve të masakruar nga regjimi serb, Nën patronatin e Kuvendit Komunal-Shtime, më 15 janar 2005 u shënua Gjashtëvjetori i Masakrës së Reçakut, Zweierlei Massaker? "Serbs rewrite history of Račak massacre". "Wenn Botschafter Walker sagt, dass es sich in Racak um ein Massaker gehandelt habe, hat diese Aussage keinerlei rechtliche Wirkung. (Berliner Zeitung, 12.9.1999). It had a population of around 2,000 people prior to the displacement of most of its inhabitants during Yugoslav military activity in the summer of 1998. 14/99, from RA-1 to RA-40) destined to the Investigative Judge of the District in Pristina. In all, 45 were reported killed, including a 12-year-old boy and three women. [citation needed], The full report of the EU team was handed over to the ICTY at the end of June 2000. Mai 2002, Transkript zur Zeugenvernehmung von Xhemajl Beqiri vor dem ICTY, 4. Die jugoslawischen Behörden hätten erklärt, dass dieselbe Gruppe für die Tötung von sieben regierungstreuen ethnischenA… Ranta bemängelte, dass die Anklageschrift gegen den jugoslawischen Ex-Präsidenten Milosevic im Fall Racak weitgehend der von Walker überlieferten Tatversion folgt. Flickr photos, groups, and tags related to the "deichmann," Flickr tag. Another five bodies had allegedly been removed by family members. [3] Die Welt, Berlin 21. Quoted in Marc Weller. The killings at Račak became the focus of an investigation by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Kugeln oder Kugelfragmente waren in einigen Körpern vorhanden. "Military 'death squads' behind Kosovo massacre". Racak am 16. During the trial, some witnesses allegedly presented testimonies that contradicted the forensic evidence, suggesting. Die seit dem Tod vergangene Zeit ist für alle Untersuchten als gleich eingeschätzt worden. Als Massaker von Račak wurde ein Ereignis in der innerstaatlichen Phase des Kosovo-Konflikts bekannt, bei dem am 15. und 16. ABOUT RACAK. Es gab keinerlei Anzeichen von postmortalen Verstümmelungen. listen starben. [26] Some eyewitnesses told reporters that "Serb troops shot and mutilated their victims, and the six-hour orgy of violence ended with a nationalist song. They were beaten and then were removed to a nearby hill, where the policemen shot and killed them. With noun/verb tables for the different cases and tenses links to audio pronunciation and relevant forum discussions free vocabulary trainer Juni 2002, Scope Of Milosevic’s Responsibility To Be Determined By Dates, Decision on motion for judgement of acquittal, 16. Diplomatie als Nullsummenspiel Jürgen Scheffran, Dr., Univer sität Marburg 1. [49] Stojanović's trial was highly controversial. Das „Massaker von Racak“ und seine Folgen Zum aktuellen Zwischenstand von Erfolgen und Drangsalen der NATO-Aufsicht über den Kosovo. Men had been separated from women and children before being led away to be executed. Gutachterin zu Kosovo-Massaker unter Druck gesetzt? [7][12], Bill Clinton, then president of the United States, condemned the massacre as a deliberate and indiscriminate act of murder,[13] and the administration launched a "propaganda blitz" in order to convince the American people that intervention in Yugoslavia was necessary. Massaker von Racak" wenige Tage vor Ausbruch des Kosovo-Krie ges durch seinen Abteilungsleiter mit der Begründung gerügt wurde, er habe „in unakzeptabler Weise Partei ergriffen " und sich „an die serbische Propaganda" angelehnt. [52], Serbian politician in Kosovo, Ivan Todosijevic denied the massacre took place, and said that the story was made up by "Albanian terrorists". The British journalist Julius Strauss, writing for the Daily Telegraph, described how he had "spent more than a week collecting evidence on the Račak massacre from Albanian witnesses, Western monitors and diplomats and a few Serbian sources who spoke privately and at some risk. "[25] According to the survivors that he interviewed, "a small group of men dressed all in black and wearing gloves and balaclavas ... co-ordinated the attack on the village and the subsequent executions." A memorial exists to the victims of the massacre at Račak. Following the international uproar about the killings, Sainović told Lukić to re-enter Račak and retrieve the bodies. Und 10 Obduktionen waren, am 23., 26. und 27. Juni 2002, Wednesday, 6. I will insist that justice will be done. The second reconstruction was prevented by an angry mob of Albanians. September 2002, Friday, 9. They certainly didn't deserve to die in circumstances like this. Insgesamt waren von den 40 Obduktionen 16, vom 19. bis zum 21. 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Julius Strauss. November 2020 um 23:18 Uhr bearbeitet. The massacre was prompted by the presence of Albanian separatist activity in the region, and perpetrated by Serbiansecurity forces. bullet holes, coagulated blood) and photographs of the scenes, it is highly unlikely that clothes could have been changed or removed. [41], The international reaction to the Yugoslav and Belarusian report on one hand, (which supported the view that those killed were KLA fighters, not civilians as claimed by the Kosovo-Albanians and NATO) and that of the EU expert team on the other (which did not find any evidence to suggest that the dead were combatants)[42] differed considerably, not least in the NATO-countries who were preparing to intervene to stop widespread human rights violations in Kosovo. Mit den damals aktuellen Stichwörtern wie "Rampe von Srebenica", "Massaker von Racak" und "Hufeisenplan" zur systematischen Vertreibung der albanischen Bevölkerung wurde einer breiten Öffentlichkeit suggeriert, die NATO müsse in Jugoslawien ein "zweites Auschwitz" verhindern. By 1998 it had become the scene of activity by the Albanian separatist organization Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The killings were investigated by two separate forensic teams, the first a joint Yugoslav–Belarusian team and the second an external Finnish team representing the EU. Juni 2002, Transkript zur Zeugenvernehmung von Dragan Jasović vor dem ICTY, 16. [21] On the same day, heavily armed Serbian police entered Račak under fire from the KLA, and removed the bodies, taking them to a morgue in Pristina to await a forensic examination. Bei 39 der 40 Untersuchten fand sich kein Beweis für Nahdistanz- oder aufgesetzte Schüsse. By January 1999, around 350 people were reported by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to be living in the village. The president of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi said that peace in Balkan will only be established when Serbia expresses shame, and not pride when discussing war crimes. [4] KVM head William Walker later described what he had seen: Walker immediately condemned what he labelled "an unspeakable atrocity" which was "a crime very much against humanity". [15] Kosovo annually holds a ceremony to honour the victims of the massacre. Racak Furniture is a furniture company. After shelling by VJ [Yugoslav Army] units, the Serbian police entered the village later in the morning and began conducting house-to-house searches. Most of them were in uniforms bearing the insignia of the ethnic Albanian terrorist organization calling itself the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA)." 14 Obduktionen waren, vom 22. bis zum 29. Several pro-war activists and writers wrote about, and quoted, the Finnish team's press-release. März 2010, Mit Krieg rechnen – von Diplomatie träumen – Das Kosovo-Desaster: Wie die USA gewöhnlich die Diplomatie zugunsten des Krieges ablehnen, Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs für das ehemalige Jugoslawien, Thursday, 1. English: "Were the Racak dead really clodly massacred?" Alternative Internetquelle des Video-Archivs und der Transkripte: Human Rights Watch (Koordination: Fred Abrahams = Frederick Cronig Abrahams): Juha Rainio, Kaisa Lalu, Antti Penttilä: Juha Rainio, Kari Karkola, Kaisa Lalu, Helena Ranta, K. Takamaa, Antti Penttilä: Reports of the Finnish Forensic Expert Team (from RA-1-7033F to RA-40-7005F). Bill Neely. [44], Many western governments, human rights groups and international organisations insisted that the Račak operation was a deliberate massacre, conducted in defiance of earlier Serbian agreements to end the violence in Kosovo. Report of medical examination on mortal remains, Racak, Stimlje, Kosovo, January 16th, 1999 (0070-7232 / 0070-7648). [51], Zoran Stojanović was pardoned in 2007 and released from custody. "[18] The dead were aged from 14 to 99 years old. [34] All three examinations took place in controversial circumstances; the Yugoslav and Belarusian forensic teams carried out their autopsies against the opposition of the KVM and ICTY, which had demanded that the outside experts from Finland should be the first to carry out post-mortems on the dead. The prosecutor, Tome Gashe, told the court during the trial that unless Stojanović were found guilty, the people would "take justice in their own hands". The bombardments led to possibly over 1000 Yugoslavian security forces deaths, several hundred civilian collateral deaths, billions of dollars worth of public and private-sector damage to infrastructure, the deterioration of Serbian leverage in Kosovo, and a mass withdrawal of Yugoslav forces from the region. [32] The Yugoslav government declared Walker to be persona non grata and demanded that he leave the territory of Yugoslavia within 48 hours. No amount of provocation could justify it. Dennoch wurden nur 40 Körper im Gerichtsmedizinischen Institut der Universität von PriÅ¡tina eingeliefert. Westfälischer Friedenspreis für Carla del Ponte? "Massacre village outraged by defence video". The Račak massacre (Albanian: Masakra e Reçakut) or Račak operation (Serbian: Акција Рачак/Akcija Račak) was the mass killing of 45 Kosovo Albanians that took place in the village of Račak (Albanian: Reçak) in central Kosovo in January 1999. [3][4][5] The Serbian government refused to let a war crimes prosecutor visit the site,[6][7] and maintained that the casualties were all members of the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) killed in combat with state security forces. [31] The Serbian media took a similar line, arguing that the Albanians had removed the KLA uniforms from the bodies and replaced them with civilian clothes. CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (. The UN Security Council and Secretary General on January 31 described the event as a massacre perpetrated by Yugoslav security forces. Originated from a family company, then continue growing and surviving up to 3 generations until now. 45 Leichen werden nach einem serbischen Angriff auf ein Dorf im Kosovo gefunden. Stojanović, a Kosovo Serb, was convicted by a joint UN-Kosovo Albanian panel of judges (two United Nations magistrates and one ethnic Albanian). [15], Račak is a small Albanian-inhabited village in the Štimlje municipality of southern Kosovo. The Contact Group also condemns the decisions by the FRY authorities to refuse entry into Kosovo by ICTY Chief Prosecutor Judge Arbour." The ICTY issued a sealed indictment on 27 May 1999 for crimes against humanity and violations of the laws and customs of war against a number of senior Yugoslav officials. Kosovo-Krieg Keine Beweise für Massaker von Racak Die Bilder von 40 Toten in Racak gingen kurz vor dem Kriegseintritt der Nato gegen Serbien um die Welt. The Račak massacre (Albanian: Masakra e Reçakut) or Račak operation (Serbian: Акција Рачак/Akcija Račak) was the mass killing of 45 Kosovo Albanians that took place in the village of Račak (Albanian: Reçak) in central Kosovo in January 1999. "[37] Addressing the claims that the dead had been killed wearing KLA uniforms which had then been replaced with civilian clothes, the report states that "...the clothing [of the dead] bore no badges or insignia of any military unit. Juni 2002, Transkript zur Zeugenvernehmung von Frederick Cronig Abrahams vor dem ICTY, 3. Juni 2002 – trial in four (4) segments 09:00 – 13:45, http://hague.bard.edu/past_video/09-2002.html, Transkript zur Zeugenvernehmung von Zeuge K2 vor dem ICTY, 9. Januar, von einem der vier jugoslawischen Professoren durchgeführt worden, unter Beobachtung eines der finnischen Pathologen und der zwei weißrussischen forensischen Pathologen. They received some support from the French newspapers Le Figaro and Le Monde, which suggested that the KLA could have fabricated evidence. [50], The reconstruction of events in Račak for the trial was prevented by two men, who chased off court officials, telling them, "we don't want any Serbs in our village." In Frankreich hat sich das schon anders gelesen. The lead Finnish investigator, anthropology expert Dr. Helena Ranta, called it a "crime against humanity", though refusing as a scientist to directly label it a massacre or assign blame to any specific party. Die Journalisten begaben sich indes auf ein abgesperrtes Trafo-Areal direkt neben dem Flüchtlings­lager und filmten die Männer durch einen Stachel­draht­zaun hindurch, was den Eindruck erweckte, die Männer sei… January 1999 French: "Neuf questions sur les morts de Racak" English: "Nine questions concerning the Racak dead" The Neue Züricher Zeitung , for example, spoke on Jan 18, 1999 of eight UÇK fighters and referred to Albanian sources. [10][11] Media outlets covering it more definitively described the event at Račak as a gruesome terrorist atrocity by a repressive Serbian government. а бомбардовање Србије, Helena Ranta: Foreign Ministry tried to influence Kosovo reports – Biography published of world-famous forensic dentist. Altogether, the forces of the FRY and Serbia killed approximately 45 Kosovo Albanians in and around Racak.