Wrote: Fatbardh Dema
A photograph showing victims of the Racak Massacre of January 1999 is being falsely presented as an event that took place in Azerbaijan by Armenian forces.
Hibrid.info has managed to find that the same photo is published on several websites in Turkish, Azerbaijani, Russian and English. These websites have presented the photo of the Racak Massacre in the published articles, as an event that took place in Azerbaijan in 1992.
Links to foreign websites that published the photo:
https://medeniyyet.az/page/news/18663/Guney-azerbaycanlilarin-soyqirimi.html?lang=en
https://www.timeturk.com/kultur/ceyrek-asirlik-aci-hocali-katliami/fotogaleri-502491
https://newsland.com/post/2230525-khodzhalinskii-genotsid
The photo of the Racak Massacre has been found published as a massacre that took place in Azerbaijan on several foreign language websites. Hibrid.info, after conducting online research, has managed to find that it has been published online as such since 2009. (see here)
To confirm the fact that the photograph depicts a massacre during the last war in Kosovo (1999), hibrid.info found it published in the British media outlet "DailyMail.co.uk". (see here)
In the photo caption it says, "The bodies of 23 ethnic Albanians killed by Serbs lie in a ditch in 1999", which is translated into Albanian “The bodies of 23 ethnic Albanians killed by Serbs lie in a pit in 1999”. (see photo below)
Screenshot from the article published on DailyMail.co.uk
Hibrid.info found the same photo published on "Wikipedia", in which explanations are given that it was taken by the photographer Louisa Gouliamaki nga EPA (European Pressphoto Agency). The photograph is titled “KOSOVO-MASSACRE” (Kosovo Massacre).
Description of the photo taken by Louisa Gouliamaki, translated into Albanian:
The bodies of 23 ethnic Albanians who were shot dead on January 15 near the town of Recak lie by the roadside on January 16. US diplomat William Walker, head of an international monitoring mission in Kosovo, said the deaths looked “like executions.”
Analyze:
The photograph depicting some victims of the Recak Massacre (1999) has been found and published on a foreign language website.
On these websites, which publish articles in Turkish, Azerbaijani, Russian and English, the photo is falsely presented as a massacre that took place in Azerbaijan in 1992.
Based on its work methodology, hibrid.info assesses these publications as "Manipulation of facts".
Reasoning:
“Factual manipulation” is a rating given to informational content that uses facts known to be accurate but interprets them in a distorted manner. These reports typically use accurate information to draw incorrect conclusions or claims, thereby misleading consumers of media content about the actual meaning of the facts presented.