by Toplica | Jan 15, 2023 | English, Events, Featured, News
On January 15, 1999, the village of Reçak/Račak/Racak in Kosovo was the site of a brutal massacre in which approximately 45 Albanian civilians were killed by Serbian police and paramilitaries. The victims, mostly men and boys, were rounded up and executed in what was...
by Toplica | Oct 6, 2021 | English, News
An ethnic Serb was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Kosovo on Tuesday after being convicted of war crimes, including involvement in a massacre during the 1998-1999 war. The court in Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, handed down the ruling against the man, who was arrested...
by Toplica | Dec 23, 2020 | Featured, News
“In the coming weeks, following the joint hard work of the forensic team, more families will be able to close a very dark chapter in their lives,” Fabien Bourdier of the International Committee of the Red Cross said in early December. Bourdier was speaking at an old...
by Toplica | Jul 26, 2020 | Community, English, Featured, News
Dua Lipa has issued a statement that seeks to clarify “controversy” surrounding a picture she shared from her Twitter account a week ago. The pop singer posted a picture of a map of Albania with its eagle emblem and a sentence appearing to suggest that...
by Toplica | Jan 16, 2020 | English, Featured, News
The Raçak massacre was the mass killing of 45 Kosovo Albanians that took place in the village of Raçak in central Kosovo on 15th January 1999. Albanian civilian men, some in their 60s, set off at gunpoint, according to survivor Rame Shabane. The men were ordered to...
