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in 1993, not a single homicide occurred in Kosovo.
This is false as written: contemporaneous human-rights reports documented multiple killings in Kosovo in 1993, including police killings of civilians.
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The claim is an absolute statement about all homicides in Kosovo in 1993, and it is contradicted by contemporaneous reporting.
Human Rights Watch documented that on 25 August 1993 police in Kosovo "shot and killed" 16-year-old Sefer Qukovci in Cernila/Cërnille. A UN-submitted human-rights report for the Commission on Human Rights also stated that during 1993 there was evidence of 15 murders in Kosovo. Even a single documented killing is enough to disprove the statement that "not a single homicide occurred in Kosovo."
If the intended point was that a reconciliation campaign reduced blood-feud killings, the article should say that specifically. As written, the sentence claims there were zero homicides of any kind in Kosovo in 1993, which is not correct.
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- Open Wounds: Human Rights Abuses in Kosovo (Human Rights Watch)
On August 25, 1993, police shot and killed sixteen-year-old Sefer Qukovci in Cernila/Cërnille, an Albanian village in the vicinity of Uroševac.
- E/CN.4/1994/NGO/22 (UN Commission on Human Rights submission)
During 1993, IFHR and CDHRF have evidence of 15 murders, 14 woundings, over 2,300 arrests and over 120 sentences for peaceful political activities in Kosovo.
in which seven people were killed at a mourning gathering
The Nag Hammadi massacre did not happen at a mourning gathering; the victims were shot outside/after a Coptic Christmas Eve Mass.
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This description misstates the setting of the Nag Hammadi massacre.
Contemporaneous reports describe the attack as a drive-by shooting outside a Christmas Eve Mass / against churchgoers leaving Christmas Mass, not killings at a mourning gathering. BBC reporting (mirrored by ecoi.net) says clashes broke out after seven Coptic Christians were killed in a drive-by shooting outside a Christmas Eve Mass. Al Jazeera likewise reported that the victims were killed in a Coptic Christmas shooting, and that churchgoers were attacked around the time of Christmas Mass.
So the event being described is real, but the article's phrasing about a "mourning gathering" is incorrect.
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- BBC News (Author): "Egypt clashes after Copt killings"
Southern town of Naga Hamady: Clashes have broken out after seven Coptic Christians killed in a drive-by shooting outside a Christmas Eve Mass.
- Fatal attack outside Egypt church | Al Jazeera
Seven killed at Coptic Christmas shooting suspected to be revenge for Muslim girl's rape.