Former Serbian general claims that the KLA was created by Westerners, without any basis in facts

Former Serbian general Vladimir Lazarevic, in an interview with the Serbian-language portal "Kosovo-online.com", claimed that internationals created the KLA, and that according to him, the Special Court will not convict any Albanian for serious crimes.

These claims were made by Lazarevic not based on any facts, but only on his own beliefs. Lazarevic made his claims in an interview with the Serbian-language media outlet, “Kosovo-online.com”. The same claims by this former Serbian soldier, accused of war crimes, have also been disseminated by several Albanian-language media outlets from Kosovo.

Excerpt from Lazarevic's interview where he talks about UThe Criminal Court and the Special Court, translated into Albanian:

"For 20 years and more, under the care of their mentors, they have been spreading the story that they are sinless, that Serbia is responsible for everything, and now suddenly the court that is theirs has serious charges against their former president, prime minister and various officials. Those who are left behind are trying, on the one hand, to reduce that pressure and help those criminals, and on the other hand, the international pressure is such that they will not allow the KLA and its members to be convicted of some serious crimes. Because they themselves created the KLA," said Lazarevic.

Link to the article published on Kosovo-online.com:

https://www.kosovo-online.com/intervjui/ekskluzivno-ii-lazarevic-ostao-je-neizvrsen-jedan-zadatak-vracanje-vojske-na-kosovo-1-3?fbclid=IwAR0mrhFDVrH-F7ZbQrH115B9Jy_07Gch7-Y6UYJjK1linKJqiWoXqT9EpAE

Below you can find Lazarević's interview published in several online media in the Albanian language:

https://www.arbresh.info/lajmet/ish-gjenerali-serb-nderkombetaret-krijuan-uck-ne-gjykata-speciale-nuk-do-te-denoje-asnje-shqiptar/

Analyze:

Lazarevic's statements about the creation of the KLA and the Special Court are allegations not based on any facts. The former Serbian general, through this interview, has claimed to present a "secret scenario" of the Western allies (Germany, France) about the creation of the KLA, but without providing any credible evidence.

Hibrid.info, after verification, assessed this statement by Lazarevic as a "conspiracy theory".

Reasoning:

"Conspiracy theories" are media reports that disseminate a false or unverifiable description of a phenomenon, event, or person, presenting it as part of or the result of a secret plan ("conspiracy"). A characteristic of these reports is that they present a series of claims, presented as facts, between which cause-effect relationships are established, without providing any credible evidence.