Talk:Commission of Truth and Reconciliation (Yugoslavia)

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Searching for verifiable source on this
I've been Googling trying to find this 1999 Truth Commission being mentioned and I'm having trouble. Lugevas (talk) 15:33, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

Problems
This article has a number of serious problems and reads like a high school history essay. For starters:


 * 1) "However, there would be a number of reconstructions of the land until World War II." What does "reconstructions of the land" mean?
 * 2) "The population of Yugoslavia was made up of two main ethnic groups." Which ones?
 * 3) "The Narodi..." Readers who don't speak a Slavic language have no idea what this means.
 * 4) "The Narodnosti..." Likewise.
 * 5) "There have been four notable ethnically based conflicts in Yugoslavia: Serbs and Croats, Serbs and Muslims, Serbs and the multiethnic population of Sarajevo, and Muslims and Croats." This is referring to B-H, not the former Yugoslavia. Omits the Slovene-JNA conflict, Albanian-Serb conflicts and Albanian-Macedonian conflict.
 * 6) "During the years of the Kosovo Conflict (1998–99), Yugoslavia saw a dramatic increase in anti-Serb propaganda which caused Serbs to react violently towards other ethnic groups, mostly Albanians." Anti-Serb propaganda? In Yugoslavia? What propaganda? Other ethnic groups? The conflict was with Albanian separatists. Only Serbs and Albanians were involved.
 * 7) "Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milošević, a Serb himself, attempted to re-write the historical narrative by countering with his own propaganda to make the Serbs look like victims. It was well-known that the Serbs were the cause of many past conflicts in the region..." So, presumably (non)-Serb propaganda within Yugoslavia called Serbs the opposite of victims and Milosevic responded by... What!? Doesn't make any sense + major NPOV and WEASAL problems in the last sentence.
 * 8) "The Kosovo region was historically and culturally significant to Serbs and needed to remain a part of Yugoslavia." According to whom?
 * 9) "It is estimated that the Kosovo Conflict saw 200,000 deaths and millions more displaced." No, more like 10,000 killed and 900,000 displaced. Anyway, the source isn't referring to Kosovo, but the Yugoslav Wars as a whole (which is overblown as well, since the wars combined resulted in ca. 130,000 deaths, according to the ICTY). I'm seeing a pattern of conflating Bosnia and Kosovo as one conflict for some reason.
 * 10) "It was believed by many that Milošević's actions led to these consequences." WP:WEASEL

And if the commission "never conducted any interviews, held any hearings, or filed any reports", what's the point of having the article to begin with? 23 editor (talk) 22:25, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Serious issues
Reading through this article it's easy to spot multiple serious issues. I had briefly looked over it last year and spotted the extraordinarily fringe claim that 200,000 were killed during the Kosovo War and millions displaced (!) and removed it. I thought it was a one-off, but clearly I should have looked more closely at the rest of the text. It looks like this was written as part of a school assignment and the author may not have been fully acquainted with Wikipedia's rules (and had a very rudimentary understanding of the region's history, for that matter). For now, I'll leave the essay and POV tags, but this needs further scrutiny, and should possibly be entirely rewritten. Amanuensis Balkanicus (talk) 18:08, 31 July 2021 (UTC)