Wrote: Fatbardh Dema
It has been alleged that amid tensions in the Serbian Parliament on Tuesday (March 4), there were chants of "KLA, KLA".
The claim was made via a video of the tensions. “Cries of KLA, KLA are heard in the Serbian Parliament,” is the caption placed on the video published by “Al-Press” on Facebook on March 5.
The truth?
In the video released from this event, chants of "Ustaše" are heard, not for the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
In addition to being heard on the audio, this has also been confirmed by Serbian-language media reporting.n1serbia" on Instagram, who wrote that this term was used by ruling party MPs in Serbia towards opposition MPs, after they threw tear gas and there was even a physical clash.
The word "Ustasha"refers to a Croatian ultranationalist political-military movement and group that led Croatia during the Nazi era. It is now used as a term referring to extreme Croatian nationalists or persons with similar ideologies.
In addition to the “Al-Press” Facebook page, the same content with the same claim was also published on Instagram by the “albanian_is_illyrian_tv", which has so far received nearly 700 likes. There are comments on this post that said that the chants were "Ustasha" and not "KLA".
What happened in the Serbian Parliament?
On Tuesday (March 4), in the Serbian Parliament, opposition MPs caused an incident by activating pyrotechnic devices and throwing smoke bombs. This happened after the ruling majority approved the agenda, which the opposition opposed. The opposition MPs approached the speaker’s desk and unfurled a banner with the message “Serbia is rising to overthrow the regime.”
And the Speaker of the Serbian Parliament, Ana Brnabic, the political entity of Kosovo Serbs, Srpska Lista, and the head of the Office for Kosovo, Petar Petkovic, linked this development in the Serbian Parliament to Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti, saying that they are following his model and calling the latter a collaborator of the opposition in Belgrade. The statements of Srpska Lista, Brnabic and Petkovic baselessly link the opposition in Serbia to Kurti, presenting any opposition expression there as a conspiracy orchestrated by Kurti against Serbia. (See here)
Shih here also for the conspiratorial narratives that were published in the media in Serbia about the chaos in the Parliament and the Serbian opposition's connection to Kurti.
Analyze:
It has been claimed in a video that amid tensions in the Serbian Parliament on Tuesday (March 4) there were chants of "KLA, KLA".
But the audio calls "Ustasha" refer to extreme Croatian nationalists and not the Kosovo Liberation Army. This is also confirmed by the reporting of the Serbian language media "n1srbija".
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