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Kosovo Slides Into War
The Significance of the Racak Massacre January 1999
William Walker, A US diplomat and head of the Kosovo Verification Mission (KVM) was taken to the village
Walker accused Serbians of perpetrating a massacre in front of journalists
His statements about Racak events incited international opinion in favor of Kosovar Albanians
US adopted a more forceful policy against serbs
led to the NATO bombing campaign and withdrawal and defeat f Serbian forces in Kosovo
Walker called for an independent enquiry by the international community to investigate what happened at racak
Two days later, Serbs shelled Racak and took the corpses to Pristina and performed autopsies
two weeks later, Finnish pathologists conducted a second post mortem
Subsequent investigations have failed to clearly establish what took place
45 Kosovar Albanians were killed in Racak, a small village in central Kosovo
the village had been the centre of actions by the KLA
a week before, 4 Serb police officers were killed nearby
this led to Serb police launching an offensive on KLA fighters in the village
they herded a number of civilians to the outskirts and shot them.
Serbs have contested this version of events as they were pursuing KLA fighters who has swapped to civilian clothing
The Slide Into War 1996-98
Creation of KLA and initial actions
Founded in the early 1990s, disorganized collection of disaffected Kosovar Albanians.
After the Dayton accrods, the KLA began actively engaging in coordinated attacks targeting Serbian individuals
this included attacks on Serbian police stations and public places where Serbians gathered
in 1996, three Serbs were killed in a café in Pristina
attacks against Serb targets and politicians escalated over the years
effects of the collapse of albania
The Killing of Adem Jashari