On the 18th anniversary of a massacre of Kosovo Albanians in Racak, a statue of the former chief of OSCE Verification Mission to Kosovo, William Walker, was unveiled in the village of Racak, where 45 Albanian civilians were reportedly massacred by Serbian forces on January 15, 1999. US diplomat William Walker, who at the time was the chief of the OSCE ceasefire verification mission to Kosovo, first reported the event and said it was a “crime against humanity”, and that the victims were civilians.
However there is a widespread belief, that Walker’s role in Racak was to assist the KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) in fabricating a Serb massacre that could be used as an excuse for military action. The theory was that the KLA had gathered their own dead after the battle, removed their uniforms, put them in civilian clothes, and then called in the observers.
Zbulohet shtatorja e Walkerit në Reçak (VIDEO)
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Anyway William Walker is the man who sold the world the story of the Racak so-called massacre, used to create a climate to justify the bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. In my opinion Racak might be a hoax. A quote related to Walker published earlier in my article High pressure to fabricate Racak reports :
Walker was U.S. ambassador to El Salvador in November 1989 when six leading Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her daughter were dragged from their beds and murdered by the Salvadoran Army. The killings were carried out by the Atlacatl Battalion, which was recruited, trained, and deployed by the U.S. military, supposedly in order to improve the Salvadoran Army’s human rights performance. The Atlacatl was responsible for the worst atrocities of the entire war.
Walker first emerged in the Iran-Contra Scandal as the right-hand man of Oliver North and Elliott Abrams in illegal arms shipments to the Contras out of Ilopango airbase in El Salvador. Before that, he was deputy chief of mission at the embassy in Honduras when U.S. authorities were recruiting officers from Somoza’s deposed National Guard to establish the Contras, and forming military death squads that murdered hundreds of Honduran workers, labor organizers and students.
The truth might be as Canadian Major General Lewis MacKenzie, former UN Protection Force commander in Bosnia, cited the admission in an April 2008 statement to the Lord Byron Foundation:
The current Prime Minister Hashim Thaci was the leader of the KLA. He has admitted that the KLA orchestrated the infamous Racak “massacre” dressing their KLA dead in civilian clothes, machine gunning them and dumping them in a ditch and claiming it was a Serbian slaughter of civilians. NATO bought into the ruse and on its 50th birthday looking for a role in the post cold war world the alliance became the KLA’s air force and bombed a sovereign nation from the safety of 10,000 ft.
Conclusion
Walker’s OSCE mission was crawling with CIA operatives and employees of two US paramilitary companies (Dyncorp and MPRI) that had close ties to US military intelligence and to the CIA at least since Bosnian war a half decade earlier . This personnel was there to establish close links with the KLA, to train them, and to prepare the ground in advance of the NATO bombing. Also the CIA had been training the KLA already, since early in 1998, in Albania, where the KLA had its bases. So the decision to bomb had been taken long before. What was needed was an excuse to start, and furnishing that excuse was Walker’s job.
More about Racak in articles published as the work started to build a statue of William Walker. He participated in an inauguration ceremony on Friday [15.Jan.2016] to lay the foundations for a statue which is being erected in his honour:
Čovek bez časti i morala: Kreator „Račka“ ponovo na Kosovu Vokeru još dva albanska odlikovanja: Ordenje za laži o Račku Kreator „slučaja Račak“ u Dečanima i pljuje po Srbima! ZBOG NJEGA SU BOMBARDOVALI SRBIJU! – Telegraf Latest Posts Page – – информативни портал ЗБОГ ЊЕГА СУ БОМБАРДОВАЛИ СРБИЈУ! – Правда
Also a following documentary movie might be interesting:
Appendix
The Milosevic Trial: William Walker’s role as provocateur By Keith Lee in World Socialist Web Site :
Milosevic asked for a series of photos of the bodies to be shown in the correct order and asked, “Where is this blood by the bodies or by individual bodies? Where did you see traces of blood there?”
This began the following exchange:
Walker: “On that picture?”…
Milosevic: “Are there any traces of blood here anywhere?”
Walker: “I assume that’s blood.”
Milosevic: “You’re talking about pools of blood on the soil, and on the soil there is no blood at all.”
Walker: “Not in this picture.”
Milosevic: “Not on the previous picture either. Is there any blood, any traces of blood, any pools of blood here on the soil either?”
Walker: “Not on that picture.”
Milosevic: “Not even here, there is no trace of blood anywhere on the ground, and we see that there are rocks all around.”
Keith Lee concludes: Whether there was a massacre at Racak will need further study, although sufficient evidence has been shown for any objective observer to err on the side of caution. What is certain is that Walker played a pivotal role in providing NATO with justification for the bombing of Yugoslavia.
This article first appeared in Conflicts By Ari Rusila site.
