Talk:Army of Republika Srpska/Archive 1

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:53, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Bosnian Serb POV

 * founded in 1992 from remnants of the old Communist Yugoslav People's Army and made up entirely of officers and recruits born on the territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina

This is pretty much typical Bosnian Serb POV:
 * that they did not have actual JNA support, but that JNA had been reduced to remnants by this time, which I don't think there's any reason to believe is true
 * that they had no help from the outside, whereas it's pretty much common knowledge that there were Serbian (as in, from Serbia, not from BiH) volunteers and mobilized men active in the Bosnian war, not unlike how there were Croatian (as in, from Croatia, not from BiH) soldiers on the other side

--Joy &#91;shallot&#93;   22:51, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia is the only place in the world where the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia was a worse war crime than the 1995 Srebrenica Massacre. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.52.97.173 (talk) 14:12, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Non-neutral contributions
I have removed the edits by User:87.116.148.82 below as I feel that they violate NPOV:

The VRS was made up almost entirely of Serb Orthodox officers and recruits from Bosnia-Herzegovina. The army formations that fought for Republika Srpska also included various Serb paramilitary units, as well as Russian, and other volunteers fighting for the right of Serbs to live freely. There were also a few Bosniaks, mostly from the area of Teslić and Derventa (major Ismet Đuherić and his Meša Selimović company consisted of 120 men including Serbs and Croats) in the north of the country.

The VRS has falsely been designated by the International Court of Justice in the Hague as the institution that participated in the commission of war crimes and genocide in Bosnia against Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats. The military leader of VRS was General Ratko Mladić, who is now indicted at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for alleged genocide, which has no firm evidence.

82.21.146.100 (talk) 21:50, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Wasn't it disbanded lately?
I heard they were merged with the Bosniak/Croat federal army.
 * It is. --HarisM 22:05, 8 January 2007 (UTC)