ISSN ONLINE: 3006-5925, ISSN PRINT: 3006-5917
In 2020, construction commenced on an object known as the “Trinity Church”, as reported by Serbian public sources. This object is situated in Nakëll, Peja, a small structure surrounded by multiple old cemeteries, with easy access to the village’s main road.
The property housing the object lacks any substantial protective barriers, allowing unrestricted access to anyone interested.
The structure lacks clear identification as a religious building, such as an Orthodox cross. Until recently, it served as a shelter for drug addicts, transients, and homeless individuals.
Amid the escalation of tensions in the hybrid war, Serbia has resorted to inscribing graffiti on this religious building, attributing these actions to the Albanians.
The OCTOPUS Institute has carefully analyzed the gratifies on the interior walls of the church and has also analyzed in detail the surrounding situation and the security situation between Kosovo and Serbia.
According to these analyses, we have the following results:
Based on photo number 2, upon analyzing the phrase “Allahu Akbar,” noticeable spelling errors indicate a lack of proficiency in the Albanian language by the individual who wrote this graffiti.
The person who wrote the gratifies has the main handwriting is Serbian with Cyrillic letters and he or she also has no knowledge of the Islamic religion.
The word “AKbaR”, Muslims do not write with a capital letter, and also the last letter is still capital, which resembles the psychological learning of writing letters in the form of Cyrillic letters. Because of the non-comparison with Allah, Muslims do not capitalize Akbar either, and these two words contradict each other.
The sentence above in the same picture has even more problems where it actually says “Islani është feju(y) e votme e Vertet”, they wanted to write “Islam is the only true religion” but they wrote something like “Islan is the unly True religiu(y)”, then the author, not knowing the Albanian language, did not know how to write the word “religion”, he or she wrote “feju(y) (religiu(y))”, so, not knowing the correct word, he or she did not know how to mark the letter “a” in Albanian language at the end. The author also, not knowing the Albanian language, did not know how to write the word “vetme (only)” and wrote “votme (omly)” and at the end the author also wrote the word “vërtetë (truth)” as “Vertet” where he or she started with a capital letter and the same one who put the letter “ë” to the word “është (is)” did not know how to put the same letter in the word “Vertet”
In photo number 3, we notice even more arguments that the people who wrote the graffiti were not Albanians, they do not know the Albanian language, and also the main handwriting is the Serbian language with Cyrillic letters.
So, from the beginning of the sentence he has started with the letter “C” which in the Serbian Cyrillic language is understood as the letter “S”, then he made a re-note trying to align it with the Albanian letter “S” but did not succeed. Likewise, the letter “j” is written without a dot above the letter, just as the letter “i” which is written without a dot above the word “church”. Likewise, the word “we want” begins with a capital “D”, with a “j” without a dot, and the word “mosque” is written as “gjami”. This last word is known by all Muslims how to spell it correctly, regardless of their level of education. So, this shows that in photo 3 there is also a second person who writes graffiti inside the walls and also has the Serbian language with Cyrillic letters as the primary language. The author of the graffiti has also tried to draw a graffiti but has fail to reach the aim.
In the photo we also notice a shovel which was placed or re placed after the graffiti was written. The shovel was not used by the craftsmen who did work there, because the craftsmen do not leave their work equipment dirty in order to avoid their damage.
In photo number 4, we notice a new manuscript where we can talk about the third person involved in the writing of the graffiti, who also has no knowledge of the Albanian language. The author of the graffiti really wanted to write “remove this church from here, there are only Muslims here”, but in reality he failed and revealed himself and the purpose of the graffiti. The person did not know how to write a single word in the correct form, but his handwriting also betrays him by revealing that he knows how to write in Cyrillic letters and very little in Latin letters and even less in the Albanian language. In the word “church” he did not know how to write it properly in the Albanian language, even the letter “s” has more resembled to the Cyrillic letters.
Likewise, the word “ka” has been betrayed by the manuscript by deviating to the second letter in the form of Cyrillic letters.
In photo number 5, in the word “ALLAHU” there are errors. Since the letter “LL” does not exist in the Serbian language, then the author did not know how to write it correctly and deviated by writing “II” two capital letters “I” in the Albanian language or two small letters “l” but which are in conflict with other capital letters. As for the word “Ekbar” we also have many testimonies, where in photo 1 we saw that the same word was written with the letter “A”, in photo number 5 they were written with “E” which do not resemble with the letters in the Albanian language but with the Cyrillic ones, and at the end, the word ends with a thick meaningless black line.
In photo number 5, we also notice that there are keys on the door. The door can only be opened only by responsible persons and that the door was not opened by force, but it was opened in a normal way.
Photo 5 shows the keys inside the locker of the door, which shows that the perpetrators had legal access to the facility and the keys are usually kept by the foreman and the owners of the facility, so they had free access. The perpetrators wrote on the inner walls so that they would not be noticed by passers-by or residents who could then be denounced and discovered by the security agencies in Kosovo.
From all the photos, we notice that there were some people who have poor knowledge of writing the Albanian language.
The purpose of graffiti
These graffiti come after the strong Serbian engagement in the hybrid war against Kosovo in the security and political sphere.
In the continuous activities of Serbia’s hybrid war against Republic of Kosovo, the issues below were also used:
– The insistence of Serbian patriarch Porfirije entering Kosovo without permission from the Kosovo authorities.
– Serbia’s campaign against Kosovo for membership in the Council of Europe.
– The insistence of the Government of Serbia on the illegal use of the dinar despite the decision of the CBK on the use of the euro as the only official currency in Kosovo.
– The issue of granting association to Serbs.
– Arms smuggling in the north of Kosovo.
Serbia has included these issues in the hybrid war against Kosovo and uses them in a constant manner, also fueling inter-ethnic tensions in its fake narrative of “endangered Serbs” in other regions of the Republic of Kosovo.
The current President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, at the time when he was the Minister of Propaganda in the regime of Slobodan Milosevic, also known as the Serbian Gebelsi, had the role of spreading fake news and propaganda. He now continues with the same attitude even when he is in charge as the autocrat of Serbia’s institutions. These news and similar news are firstly spread by the Serbian medium Kosovo Online.
The issue of graffiti is argued to be mounted by the government of Serbia, since in Serbia the media is controlled by Vučić, and thus through these graffiti he would succeed in in its propaganda to evoke victimization among internationals and chauvinism among the Serbian people. For this reason, it is not by chance that he chose Dejan Ristici as Minister of Information, who, before becoming a minister, has taken care to indoctrinate in students, teachers and the Serbian people the feeling of victimization, genocide and chauvinist nationalism among the Serbs.
In the past, as is known to the world, Serbian politicians in cooperation with the Serbian secret service have done even more rude acts by accusing Albanians to justify their actions afterwards.
It is worth mentioning the “Panda” case in Pejë, where 6 young men of Serbian nationality were killed in a cafe in 1998. For this case, several Albanians were accused and sentenced by the Serbian courts. The special unit of the UDB “Red Berets” immediately took revenge on other innocent Albanians with murder, torture, violence, imprisonment, looting and various mistreatment. In 2013, Aleksandar Vučić himself publicly admitted that this ugly criminal act was committed by the Serbian security institutions themselves, members of the special police and Serbian criminals operating at the time, but as an action it was planned by the Serbian UDB.
Whereas, after the terrorist attack in Banjska in September 2023, it has been proven that the Vučić regime uses Serbian churches in Kosovo for sheltering weapons and terrorists.
Therefore, the facts, analysis and political and security circumstances lead us to the fact that this act was organized by Serbia itself and its secret service.