The Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia, through a notice published today (August 3) on their official website, has claimed that in Kishnica, near Gracanica, a bilingual sign with the name of this place has had its Serbian name erased, covering it with black. Another claim is that on a road that separates Albanian and Serbian settlements in Kishnica, a sign with the symbol of the KLA has been placed.
Based on the verification of the facts, hibrid.info notes that, through the photographs, it is not being argued that the deletion of the Serbian name of Kishnica and the placement of the sign with the inscription "KLA Brigade 138 'Agim Ramadani'" occurred today.
Excerpts from the announcement of the Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia, translated into Albanian:
In the settlement of Kishnica, near Gracanica, where a bilingual sign with the name of this ethnically mixed place was placed, today the name in Serbian is scratched out in black.
At the same time, today on the road from the Serbian part of Kishnica to the part inhabited by Albanians, near the children's playground, a sign with the KLA terrorist symbol has been placed.
"Serbs from the Serbian part of Kishnica are confronted with this sign, which poses a clear threat to the Serbian people who have suffered terribly at the hands of this organization," the office said, labeling the KLA with defamatory terms such as "criminal" and "terrorist."
There is no doubt that this is another provocation led by Albanians that unites the anti-Serb policy of Pristina and Albin Kurti, whose main goal is the expulsion of all Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija.
Link to the announcement of the Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia on the official website:
This institution of the Serbian Government, apart from the photographs taken at a narrow angle, fails to prove the time of their realization.
Consequently, from the research, the above claims made by the Office for Kosovo cannot be proven to be true because, through these photographs, an adequate reflection of the surrounding space is not made, to prove that we are dealing with the claimed place, namely Kishnica.
Also, the claim that the action alluded to by this Serbian institution constitutes a provocation by the Albanians by linking it to, as it is said, the anti-Serbian policy of Pristina and Albin Kurti with the aim of expelling the Serbs, has no basis in argument. The Office for Kosovo raises its claims through photographs that are the source of the office itself, i.e. the photographs were taken by the office.
The article with the same photo was also published by online media in Serbian.novosti.rs","naslovi.net","pink.rs","telegraf.rs".
This announcement from this office has also been published by online media in the Albanian language as: "gazetaexpress.com","news.net","kosova.info".
Analyze
The Office for Kosovo in the Government of Serbia, through photographs, claimed that in Kishnica the name in Serbian on the sign has been erased and that on the road that crosses from the Serbian part of Kishnica to the Albanian part, a sign with the symbol and the inscription KLA has been placed.
This announcement from this office was also published by the Serbian media "novosti.rs", "naslovi.net", "pink.rs", "telegraf.rs" and the Albanian-language online media "gazetaexpress.com", "lajmi.net", "kosova.info".
After fact-checking based on the work methodology, hibrid.info rates this article as "Unverified Content". Although the office that published the photos to prove their claims considers itself the source of the photos as evidence of the claims, the photos do not contain details through which the location can be determined.
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The “Unverified” rating is given to those media reports that do not provide sufficient information to confirm the claims made in the report, and which have not been able to confirm the same due to the lack or non-possession of reliable sources.