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Ethical and Scientific Approach to the Topic

This article does not offer any information about a planned, orchestrated and well-documented campaign to eradicate the Muslim population from the Eastern Bosnia and Sandžak regions relating to the Bukovica massacre or the campaign that resulted in the organised extermination of the Muslim population from the region - mostly of women, children and the elderly. The campaign was meticulously documented in the Dedijer-Miletić book cited in the references, from which the author chooses a document signed by a commanding officer of the army that perpetrated the massacre as a proof of the victims' collective guilt.

Secondly, this type of populist narrative: "In turn, one million Serbs murdered mostly by Muslims on the territory of the Independent State of Croatia which included Bosnia and Hercegovina," should not be allowed on Wikipedia. The sentence is irresponsible and factually incorrect on several accounts. You could start with the revised post-war figures about WW2 casualties done in Yugoslavia itself, which indicate that one million casualties - which included all former Yugoslav states and persecuted groups (Serbs, Jews, Roma, Muslims, communists, etc) - was the total number of people killed in WW2. Here's a place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_in_Yugoslavia.

These two facts alone put a question-mark next to this article, which seems unconcerned with an ethical and scientific approach to history. 124.168.64.252 (talk) 15:07, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. This article has a transparent POV justifying the mass murder of Bosnian Muslims. Much of it is unacceptable in Wiki voice, and engages in wholesale victim blaming. The sources need to be checked, and any source that claims that 1 million Serbs were killed by anyone in WWII needs to be carefully scrutinised for other egregious errors. If you look at the Djurisic article you will see a balanced article which mentions this massacre and uses appropriate reliable sources. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 20:46, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

And my assumptions who'd be the author of such claims and statements prove correct at last... –Vipz (talk) 22:01, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think personalising it helps. It just isn't well sourced and has a distinct POV. It is very bad, and almost a WP:TNT target. I have the sources to fix it, but not the time right now. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 07:57, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]