User:Antidiskriminator/Sandbox/Old sandbox/Pavle Đurišić

Summary of my A-class review of Pavle Đurišić article
I began reviewing of this article based on the Peacemaker67's request at WikiProject Serbia diff and permanent link to the version of the article at the moment of this request. I immediately realized it has a very serious issue with neutrality. Since this topic was never subject of my particular interest, I hoped that this issues would soon be resolved. I was wrong. Not only because resolving of this issues was obstructed by a couple of editors who struggled to present demonized Pavle Đurišić who was as Nazi/Fascist lover and collaborationist as possible, irrational hater of people of Muslim religion, impatient to kill all Muslims and Albanians he can lay his hands on, especially women and children. The whole anti-Axis period (April 1941 - February 1942) including his important role in Uprising of Montenegro was overlooked. His actions against Moslem militia were presented as actions against Muslim civilians and "self-protection" Muslim forces, without any context. His cooperation with Muslims and Albanians was/is completely overlooked. Now, after I researched this subject more and after I learned more about attitude of main contributors of this article, I realize that it was more logical to propose renaming this article to Demonized image of Pavle Đurišić, then to resolve its neutrality issues.

Neutrality issues of the article were consequence of sources, more precisely:
 * 1) source selection:
 * 2) The article predominately relies on Western/Yugoslav communist era biography which is more or less biased toward Chetniks.
 * 3) no Chetniks sources are used in this article, even for the simpliest assertions like family members or songs
 * 4) usage of controversial Hoare/Judah/Cohen works
 * 5) cherry picking of sources to give undue weight to Subnor/Heinz/.... biased views without presenting the opposed views
 * 6) source interpretation - even the most neutral sources can be misinterpreted by cherry picking only details aimed to present somebodies demonized image.

As consequence the text of this article which had GA rating was a massive POV. Many of those POV issues were resolved, after a couple of major contributors of this article prepared a "hot rabbit" to me (not only in this article) for every small improvement of this article I managed to implement. Unfortunately, this has not resulted with NPOV article. The more I researched this topic, the more other POV issues I discovered.


 * 1) Every bad thing done to Djurisic and his Chetniks is presented as revenge or punishment for bad things they done. Bad things done by them was presented without any context, giving impression about their inherent bad nature.


 * "This was probably the largest combat action between NDH forces and the Chetniks in the previous two years" - The article presents Chetniks and Ustaše as allied. This sentence contradicts it because it mentions some major battles between Chetniks and Ustaše in 1943.
 * Work of Nikica Barić is used to support above assertion, a member of Croatian team on the trial against Serbia.
 * Demonization of Đurišić and Chetniks:
 * In 1943, troops under his command carried out several massacres against the Muslim population
 * a "frontier" mentality towards Muslims
 * Đurišić and his Chetniks impatient to continue with the uprising by turning on the Muslims and Albanians
 * "cleansing the Muslim population from Sandžak and the Muslim and Croat populations from Bosnia and Herzegovina"
 * In early 1942, his Chetnik detachment became more active, especially in eastern Montenegro and the Sandžak against local Muslims
 * The conference was dominated by Đurišić and its resolutions expressed extremism and intolerance,
 * In early January 1943, the Chetnik Supreme Command ordered Montenegrin Chetnik units to carry out "cleansing actions" against Muslims in the Bijelo Polje county in the Sandžak region of north-eastern Montenegro.
 * On 10 January 1943, Đurišić reported that Chetniks under his command had burned down 33 Muslim villages, killed 400 Muslim fighters (members of the Muslim self-protection militia also supported by the Italians), and had also killed about 1,000 Muslim women and children.
 * Despite the fact that both Đurišić's Chetniks and the Muslim self-protection militia were supported by the Italians, these "cleansing actions" represented partial achievement by Đurišić of Mihailović's directive of 20 December 1941 to clear the Sandžak of Muslims.
 * In mid-February, during their advance north-west into Herzegovina in preparation for their involvement in Case White, Đurišić's Lim–Sandžak detachment received further orders for "cleansing actions" against Muslims.
 * It committed further atrocities against the Muslim population, this time in part of the Pljevlja county in Sandžak, and Čajniče county and part of the Foča county in Bosnia.
 * In a report to Mihailović dated 13 February 1943, Đurišić reported that his forces had killed 9,200 Muslims, including approximately 1,200 Muslim combatants and about 8,000 women, children and the elderly.
 * Is authenticity of this report disputed? (link to Pogledi) He also reported that: “	The operations were executed exactly according to orders. ... All the commanders and units carried out their tasks satisfactorily. ... All Muslim villages in the three above mentioned districts are entirely burnt, so that not one of the houses remained undamaged. All property has been destroyed except cattle, corn and hay. In certain places the collection of fodder and food has been ordered so that we can set up warehouses for reserved food for the units which have remained on the terrain in order to purge it and to search the wooded areas as well as establish and strengthen the organization on the liberated territory. During operations complete annihilation of the Muslim population was undertaken, regardless of sex and age.[41]	”
 * A further massacre of about 500 Muslims, mostly women, children and the elderly, was carried out in Goražde in March.
 * Several women were raped. -
 * The total number of deaths caused by the anti-Muslim operations commanded by Đurišić between January and February 1943 is estimated at 10,000.
 * The casualty rate would have been higher had a great number of Muslims not already fled the area, most to Sarajevo, when the February action began.
 * The NDH forces were motivated by the mass terror committed by Đurišić on the Muslim population in Sandžak and southeastern Bosnia while Drljević was opposed to Đurišić's support of a union of Serbia and Montenegro which ran counter to Drljević's separatism
 * the killing of the Montenegrin Chetniks by the Partisans at Kočevski Rog was an "act of mass terror and brutal political surgery", similar to those carried out by the Chetniks themselves earlier in the war.
 * It was partly an act of revenge for the mass terror carried out by the Chetniks against the Partisans and pro-Partisan segments of the population, and partly in order to stop the Chetniks from continuing an armed struggle against the communists, perhaps with Western assistance.
 * Muslim "self-protection militia"? Is there an article about this militia?