“Kosovo File” is the new movie project funded by the Serbian Government, dedicated to war in Kosovo, specifically the Reçak Massacre. Images from the filming-location were shown by Serbian Minister of Interior, Aleksandar Vulin. From the shooting site, he accused NATO for aggression against the Serbian state and called the Reçak massacre a fabrication by the international community.
The inability of the Serbian government to face its dark past and the Milosevic mentality heirs, have begun producing movies for specific events such as the Reçak Massacre, this doubtless due to the involvement of many current state officials to this crime, but also to influence the Serbian local public by offering the “Serbian truth”.
Serbian Government’s offensive to rewrite the history in Balkans does not begins here, this campaign has recently increased, concentrating mainly on rewriting the history of the war in Bosnia and Kosovo.
All this seems like an early plan of the Serbian state together with its eternal ally Russia. The way this whole joint plan started by causing crisis in Montenegro, then in BaH the attempt for the secession of Republika Srpska, in order to join Serbia, the attempts to cause a crisis in Kosovo, always with Russia’s footprints, has the same goal to complete a puzzle of creating the “Serbian world”. Both countries are using every opportunity to achieve their goals, by organizing “scientific” conferences that produce works which present the aggressor as a victim and vice versa, up to the movie types like the latest one about Reçak. Meanwhile in the Russian media, Vulin has been praised for his work and “the real content of Russian policy pursued by Belgrade.
The truth about the Reçak Massacre is documented to the world that is one of the most horrific events, which made the whole world turn its head from Kosovo. On January 15, 1999, the Serbian police- military forces in Reçak, a village of Kosovo, located about 30 km away from Pristina, barbarically massacred 45 civilian, residents of the village, among them women, and children and old men. According to witnesses who survived the crime, large military forces had started shelling the village in the early morning of 15 January 1999. Iron barricaded village had made the escape impossible. The bodies of the 45 civilians killed were subsequently massacred by Serbian military forces.
On the morning of January 16, William Walker, at the time was head of the OSCE Verification Mission in Kosovo, arrived at the crime scene and described the Reçak massacre as follows, “massacre, it seems clear, is definitely a grave crime against humanity”. Walker was the first to alert the international community to what was happening in Kosovo.
The denial of the crime in Reçak by the Serbian state, has started only two days after the world have seen the whole event, and here lies the link why the Serbian state finances this movie after 23 years. Immediately after William Walker’s statements about the massacre he witnessed up close, the Serbian police withdrew bodies of the victims, to camouflage crime sent them for autopsy in Pristina. According to them, the autopsy report had shown that this event has nothing to do with a massacre. At that time, in Kosovo all institutions were controlled by the Serbian state, and such a report which denies a crime, would be the easiest thing that could be done.
That 45 bodies of the victims were barbarically massacred, later was confirmed by the Dutch forensic expert, Helena Renata and her team. In addition to Reçak, the same thing happened to the other massacres of Meja, Kralan, Rezalla, Abria, Izbica, Likoshan and Qirez, Rogova, and other massacres, which Serbia has been constantly denied. Twenty-three years after the war in Kosovo, crime committers of the above-mentioned massacres have not been convicted, and this is the space given to Serbia to wage the movies war and everything else, aimed at victimizing the Serbian state by drawing a parallel between aggressor and the victim.
Serbia’s struggle to deny the crime committed in Kosovo is tantamount to the crime it committed in the 1990s.
The Serbian government is as much responsible for the crime in the Recak massacre and other massacres, as it is for the efforts to hide these crimes and the attempt to change the history of the Kosovo war. Official Belgrade instead of bringing responsible for the crimes committed in the Kosovo, to justice, invests millions in the cinematographic field to hide the dark truth of its state.
Historically, Serbia has rewarded war criminals, including Lieutenant-Colonel Goran Radosavljevic, who is responsible for the military operation in the Racak massacre on January 15, 1999, also responsible for the Cusk massacre and implicated in the murder of the Bytyci Brothers. Radosavljevic is currently an Executive Committee member of Aleksander Vucic`s political party, SNS. The Recak massacre was the main event that changed the international community approach towards war in Kosovo and led to the NATO bombing of Serbia.
