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Six Albanian districts, Kukës, Shkodër, Lezhë, Tiranë and Durrës, are affected by the practice.
This sentence says there are six affected districts/counties, but it only names five. The underlying six-area study included Dibër (Dibra) in addition to Kukës, Shkodër, Lezhë, Tiranë, and Durrës.
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The statement is internally inconsistent and also does not match the source material it appears to summarize.
A UK Home Office fact-finding report describing the same blood-feud study says the research covered six counties: Kukes, Diber (Dibra), Shkodër, Lezhe, Tirana and Durres. It repeats that the study proceeded through Kukës, Dibër, Shkodër, Lezhë, Tirana and Durrës.
The underlying project report is titled "Blood Vengeance in Six Albanian Districts" and includes a dedicated section labeled "6. Dibra’s District Data", confirming that Dibër/Dibra is one of the six areas.
So the article's list is incomplete: it says there are six affected districts, but names only five and omits Dibër/Dibra.
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- Report of a fact-finding mission: blood feuds, Albania, January 2023 (accessible) - GOV.UK
"In 2017 I made a study in 6 counties including; Kukes, Diber [Dibra], Shkodër, Lezhe, Tirana and Durres" and "We started from Kukes district then Dibër, Shkodër to Lezha and to Tirana, ... we then went to Durres".
- Blood Vengeance in Six Albanian Districts
The report is explicitly titled "Blood Vengeance in Six Albanian Districts" and includes a section headed "6. Dibra’s District Data", confirming Dibra as one of the six studied districts.
in 1993 not a single homicide occurred in Kosovo.
This is contradicted by UN human-rights reporting from 1993. Contemporary reports documented killings in Kosovo that year, including two police officers killed and several Albanians killed by police or dying in custody.
Full reasoning
The claim is too absolute to be correct.
A 1993 report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the former Yugoslavia states that the Serbian Ministry of the Interior reported 52 attacks against police in Kosovo between 1 January and 30 September 1993, and that "Two police had been killed and 15 wounded." Even on its own, that disproves the statement that not a single homicide occurred in Kosovo in 1993.
A separate UN document submitted to the Commission on Human Rights also describes named Albanian victims killed in Kosovo in August 1993, including Sefer B. Cukovci, who it says was killed by police on 25 August 1993, and Arif M. Krashigi, who it says died after severe police torture on 30 August 1993.
Because documented killings occurred in Kosovo during 1993, the article's blanket statement that there was "not a single homicide" that year is factually incorrect.
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- Situation of human rights in the territory of the former Yugoslavia: Report by the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights (E/CN.4/1994/47)
Paragraph 193 states that the Ministry of the Interior reported that between 1 January and 30 September 1993 in Kosovo, "52 attacks against the police had taken place" and that "Two police had been killed and 15 wounded."
- Written statement on the situation of human rights and freedoms of the Albanians in Kosovo in 1993 (E/CN.4/1994/NGO/22)
The statement says that in Kosovo in 1993, "Albanians are killed by the police and the army" and gives examples: on 25 August 1993 "Sefer B. Cukovci ... was killed by the police," and on 30 August 1993 "Arif M. Krashigi ... was so severely beaten and tortured that he died."