In Racak, south of Pristina, the deaths of 45 civilians at the hands of Serbian paramilitaries in 1999 convinced the West to intervene.

1999年在西方干预下的那次准军事行动中，位于普里什蒂纳以南的城镇拉察克有四十五名平民葬身塞尔维亚人之手。

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And, after the Racak killings, most Albanians are in no mood to compromise.

ECONOMIST: Kosovo on the brink, again

Mr Milosevic accused Mr Walker of bias because he had openly and immediately expressed his disgust at the killings in Racak, the Kosovo village.

ECONOMIST: Kosovo on the brink, again

And, while the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, which monitors Kosovo on the ground, has closed ranks around Mr Walker and told him to stay, some European diplomats (especially French ones) were muttering that the American envoy might have been overhasty in his reaction to the Racak slaughter.

ECONOMIST: Kosovo on the brink, again