Wrote: Etrit Rexhepi
A content has been published with the image of former MP, Vasfije Krasniqi-Goodman, who is alleged to have addressed the commanders of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) with the words: Where were you brave people on FB when the Serbs were raping us... we were not 20 or 300... or two thousand, but 20.000!!!..
This post was published today (August 29) on Facebook, by the portal "lecanton27.ch", which calls itself the first Albanian newspaper in Switzerland.
Çdid Krasniqi-Goodman actually say?
The portal "lecanton27.ch" has published an article by the media outlet "Radio Free Europe" (REL), which reported on the speech of Krasniqi-Goodman in 2020, in the Kosovo Assembly, one of the survivors of the violence of the last war in Kosovo.
However, hibrid.info's findings show that the caption that "lecanton27.ch" placed on this article does not provide the information that was presented in the "REL" article.
Link to content published on Facebook by the portal "lecanton27.ch":
Hibrid.info has verified the "REL" article and found that in her comments, during the speech given on March 9, 2020, in the Assembly, Goodman-Krasniqi, at no time addressed the KLA commanders (see here).
Goodman-Krasniqi's quoted statements in the "REL" article:
"Our country, our society stigmatizes us. It makes us not feel like daughters, sisters, women, but also good mothers. Where were you then, 21 years ago, were you on the roof, when your wife was raped in the rooms? Where did you get the courage to abandon your wife and children, where were the boys who saw their mother being raped, drove the mother away, and kept the wife at home because they didn't know that her wife had been raped too. Where were you when seven-year-old Jeta was raped? And now what are you doing to make our lives easier? Everyone, the entire Kosovar society, should be ashamed because you are victimizing us every day,"
"You must change because the end has come. For 20 years, we have endured enough, but we can no longer forgive what you have done to us, to endure for two decades. Finally, I ask all MPs, Kosovo institutions to take war crimes and punishments seriously. For 20 years, no person has been punished for these crimes"
This can also be confirmed by the video of the full Krasniqi-Goodman speech (see here).
Hibrid.info has conducted a detailed verification by analyzing the full video of Krasniqi-Goodman's speech, which does not prove the claim of "lecanton27.ch".
Furthermore, a Google search by hibrid.info did not produce any articles or content confirming that Krasniqi-Goodman ever made such a statement (see here).
Analyze:
The claim that Vasfije Krasniqi-Goodman addressed KLA commanders with a specific statement is false.
According to hibrid.info's verification, neither in her speech from March 9, 2020 in the Kosovo Assembly, nor in any other article found through Google search, is there evidence that she made such a statement in relation to the KLA leaders.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses this content as "Disinformation".
Reasoning:
"Disinformation" is defined as information content that contains a "mix" of inaccurate sources or even half-truthful attributes, and that is created and/or distributed with the deliberate intention of causing harm. The motive behind the producers/distributors of disinformation content lies in achieving a political, financial, psychological or social goal.