First, I must differ with you on the blood feud--there have been many KLA members killed due to feuds over the last few years. And as you said yourself in one of your previous posts: "good old fashioned revenge bloodshed based on family honor casts aside political views very quickly" plus "Things never really change in Kosovo as Albanians continue to kill Albanians." So, again, I believe the absence of blood feuds or killings by the Racak family members mitigates against the Alb on Alb theory.
Further, the villagers are still very bitter about the Serbs--when the court trying one of the Racak suspects came out to do a reconstruction of the crime a couple years back, the local Albanians became enraged when they saw the Serb lawyer and the entire party had to bug out.
You advanced a competing theory of what happened, but I saw nothing in your posts that refuted the known evidence; i.e. the various eyewitness reports from the villagers & the report of the team under Dr. Ranta. I had the opportunity to engage in a disucssion with Dr Ranta personally on this issue--there is no doubt in her mind as to what happened--the Albanians were murdered--not killed in a fight or executed elsewhere & then dragged in.
Finally, there was combat between Yugo & KLA forces vicinity Racak shortly before with some KLA casualties. As you said, the KLA removed those casualties. If it was a set-up, they would have left those bodies in Racak to drive up the massacre count even higher.
Wraith, thanks for a post free of histrionics.
G.O.M. Lawn. As a lifelong Detroit Lions fan, I know what bad football looks like. And I sure could recognize it watching the Bears on Monday night. Time for Ditka & Butkus to put the pads back on!
Because this would have been evidence of armed/uniformed combatants at the scene, some of whom would have been known to the Serbs.
If you do get around to reading all of my posts how will you will get a better gist of what I have been saying? You find the lack of revenge from the villagers to be strange. The explanation is in my posts i.e. the KLA had control of Racak after the Serbs had left. The Military observers and of course the villagers who had evacuated from the obvious Serb MUP advance were not allowed into Racak until the KLA were ready for Walker and the show. The villagers were told by the KLA that the Serbs had killed their men and that is what they were left to believe. I hold no weight on the witness statements that were obviously motivated by the KLA. Very few female victims considering those mad Serb MUP just pounced on Racak. Have you ever had the chance to hear what a T-55 Soviet erra tank sounds like a few kilometers away? I have and it’s a very sobering sound. The Racak villagers and most of all the KLA knew what was coming considering the KLA had just recently shot some Serb Policeman to death in the area? Thaci himself has publicly stated this was a chosen method to attract a response from the Serbs.
You may have spoken to Ranta whose investigation was flawed and drawn over a long period. I believe she has been described as a forensic dentist. The fact the KLA in Racak refused any investigation as you had mentioned is a bit curious don't you think, considering the Albanians were the victims in all of this and the Albanian Investigating Judge with a Serb accused were there for a criminal investigation. You would think the KLA would have welcomed their own judicial process that had on trial a suspected Serb criminal? The KLA have something to hide and I know this. The LDK walk very lightly in Racak under the watchful eye of the KLA. I worked on them extensively while in Kosovo.
Just because their is this old Albanian Blood fued or Kanoun as it is know in that region of the Balkans, not all Albanians practice revenge. It is more common in the small villages. A good majority of the LDK who the KLA have prayed upon even before the NATO invasion are pacifists and easy targets. I interview one of these LDK people who was left for dead by the very understanding KLA. You mentioned that some of the KLA have been killed as a result of the Albanian blood feud. This is due to conflicts within the KLA itself or with the traditional Albanina criminal groups who moved into Kosovo with a vengnendce. I have seen a few of these unfortunate KLA on the slab at the Pristina Hospital. The most memorable one was Besim Mala. You must understand that your everyday villager will not mess with the KLA who control what goes on in Kosovo. Never the less their conflicts between clans. Just ask yourself why didn’t all the villagers leave and what was the purpose of those 45 who remained? You should ask Ranta this.