Drecun on Racak: It is incomprehensible that a lie has been persistently presented as the truth for 25 years

Milovan Drecun, President of the Parliamentary Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, says it is incomprehensible to persist for 25 years in presenting a lie as the truth and accusing Belgrade of a non-existent massacre.

Speaking on the Morning Program of RTS, Milovan Drecun mentioned that he had returned from Kosovo the previous day to compile material for RTS.

"I was the first to disclose what really happened in Racak, the entire operation in the book 'The Second Kosovo Battle.' The late Slobodan Milosevic quoted this in the opening words of his defense at the Hague Tribunal. The Racak case was a fundamental pillar of the indictment against Milosevic regarding events in Kosovo and Metohija. After that quote that Milosevic pulled from my book and some other events, the court abandoned that part of the indictment. The indictment related to the Racak case was completely withdrawn. It says enough that there was no evidence, there was no massacre," Drecun said.

However, he emphasized that it was incomprehensible to persist for 25 years in presenting a lie as the truth and accusing Serbia of a non-existent massacre.

Drecun noted that he had previously met with William Walker in Rogovo, as well as with a British general, and saw "how these people are ready to manipulate what happened."

He also mentioned that Walker had arrived in Racak before the journalists and prepared the scenery. When the media teams arrived, some bodies had been moved to a neighboring village, and some members of the KLA had changed into civilian clothing. Despite talking about a massacre, there was no blood or shells.

He reminded that before the action, Serbian security services had informed the OSCE that the operation would take place.

"If someone wants to commit a massacre, he is not crazy enough to tell someone. The OSCE is coming, they are deploying when the action is about to begin on the road in front of the village, and they are present all the time during the conflicts in the village of Racak," Drecun said.

Investigative judge Danica Marinkovic, who worked on the Racak case, has repeatedly stated that Walker's assessment of a massacre and war crime in Racak was a lie.

In her latest statement, she emphasizes that the truth has been known from the beginning to everyone, including those who decided to bomb the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, but it was not in their interest.