15/01/2025• News• Bianka Hada
President of the Republic, H. E. Bajram Begaj, today commemorated the event that occurred 26 years ago in Reçak, Kosova, where Serbian forces attacked the innocent Albanian civilian population, killing and massacring 45 of them.
On this anniversary of the Reçak massacre, President Begaj honored the victims and all Albanians who resisted the Serbian genocide for Kosova’s freedom.
The Head of State also expressed gratitude to American Ambassador William G. Walker, the then-head of the OSCE verifiers, who made the crime against humanity in Kosova known to the world from Reçak.
“The exposure of this massacre changed the history of Kosova and the international community’s approach to it,” wrote President Bajram Begaj in his message accompanied by photos from some media of the time that internationalized the facts of the Serbian genocide in Kosova.
“On January 15, 1999, in the village of Reçak in Kosovo, 45 unarmed Albanian civilians were barbarically executed and massacred by Serbian criminal units.
The exposure of this massacre changed the history of Kosova and the international community’s approach to it.
Eternal glory to the men and women of Kosova, who stood for its freedom!
Gratitude to American Ambassador William G. Walker, ‘Knight of the Order of the Flag!’” writes the President of the Republic of Albania, H. E. Bajram Begaj.