Drecun: In the West, it is still not time to find out the truth about Racak

The President of the Parliamentary Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, Milovan Drecun, said that it was still not time for the West to find out the truth about Racak but added that Serbia needed to respond much more actively to Pristina's propaganda moves and campaign, RTS reported.

"If you leave them and don't publish your truth, then their lies will win," Drecun says.

The Kosovo Prosecutor's Office issued international warrants for 18 Serbs suspected of having committed crimes in Racak 24 years ago, and Drecun assessed that it was a deliberate political campaign.

"This is an integral part of a political campaign that should ultimately confirm those stories from Pristina about the alleged genocide of Albanians in Kosovo and Metohija during the conflict in 1998 and 1999, all in order to strengthen the story about the fake state of Kosovo, about how they are victims, that it is necessary for them to get a state, for all those who did not recognize them to do it, and to prove something that did not happen in Kosovo and Metohija," Drecun says.

He points out that the basis of that story is the reason why Serbia was formally bombed, and that is the event in Racak.

"The Racak case does not represent any crime against the civilian population, there is not a single piece of evidence that any crime was committed. Helena Ranta said it best – she accused William Walker of pressuring her to tell the truth according to his interpretation of events, she then accused the German ambassador at the time that he instructed her before the press conference. But even later, two years after that, Ranta said she was threatened with death if she did not confirm the variant that suited certain Western countries," Drecun adds.

He also indicates that the Racak case was dropped from the indictment against six state, police, and military officials of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia at the Hague Tribunal.

"Under the explanation that the prosecution should not prove such a large number of war crime cases in Kosovo and Metohija, when in fact there was a danger that the prosecution would not be able to prove that a war crime happened," emphasizes Drecun.

Drecun notes that the key thing is that two foreign television crews, who were present during the action itself, filmed that day when the action ended that the ravine was empty, in which the bodies of the murdered Albanians were allegedly found.

"Which means that the bodies were subsequently transferred there. Also, a list of 126 terrorists was found because the headquarters of the terrorist brigade was there. There were also four surnames on that list which indicated that they were foreigners, no matter if they were instructors or mercenaries. We have a story that was forced and that was necessary for our country to be bombed then, but Pristina now insists on it and justifies the practical and verbal delict that it introduced and wants to place all that in the context of this what it is doing now - they formed an institute for researching war crimes, they talk non-stop about some kind of genocide and it should not be accepted just like that, they are doing it very systematically and persistently and they will certainly have the support of the leading Western countries who still won't admit that no crime happened in Racak," Drecun emphasizes.

He indicates that all leading Western countries' representatives were at the commemoration on Sunday.

"This raises the importance of what Kurti is talking about about the alleged genocide, about the alleged crime in Racak, even though all the evidence shows that there was no crime," Drecun adds.

"Kurti is trying to push aside the story about the trial of Thaci and the KLA"

Drecun reminds that the trial of Hashim Thaci and a group of accused KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) leaders will begin soon.

"Kurti is certainly trying, as an accomplice in all of this, to somehow push aside the whole story about the trial of the terrorist KLA. The indictment is extremely difficult for the KLA and for the Albanians themselves because it speaks of a joint criminal enterprise in which all members of the KLA participated, from the top to the last soldier. That is very difficult for the Albanians and Pristina, and now he wants to marginalize that upcoming trial a little bit because that's where the truth will come out about the terrible crimes committed by the KLA. I don't think Kurti can achieve anything with that story about Racak. When they could have used them when there were trials of the state, police, and military leadership of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, they had no evidence and gave up on it," Drecun emphasizes.

William Walker is writing a book about Racak, and as reported by the media, Pristina is financing it with 70,000 euros. Drecun says that the book will contain "Walker's and the Albanian side of the story, which is fictional and does not correspond to the truth".

"It will be a creation of a bunch of lies to bury the truth. I think we should also publish a book about how the truth about the Racak events was turned into a propaganda campaign, a justification for the bombing of our country. There are many respectable people in the world who could talk about that whole political game, to turn that event in Racak into something that should serve as a justification for the bombing of our country. We should talk to them, and publish all these facts in the Western media as well," Drecun says.