Talk:Bosnian genocide
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Capital G in "genocide".
editThis page is about a specific event, it says "The" Bosnian genocide, so it should be a capital G. Calling it "Bosnian genocide" makes it a generic thing instead of a specific event. I think this for every other specific genocide. Egezort (talk) 15:56, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
Roy Gutman
editThe opening sentence concludes: "...and included both the Srebrenica massacre and the wider crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing campaign perpetrated throughout areas controlled by the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS)." Gutman's book only mentions Srebrenica once, but not in relation to the description of genocide. It also doesn't seem to name the VRS in full. I added a page number that was the best connection I could make to the text in this article. Thoughts? JPHC2003 (talk) 07:05, 6 August 2025 (UTC)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the ICJ rule that only Srebrenica was a genocide and the rest of the war wasn't?
editThey're the legal authority on this seeing as the definition was invented and codified by the UN.
Even the page itself seems cluttered, offering multiple sets of dates and death tolls, some following the legal definition and some not. ~2026-10739-61 (talk) 19:23, 17 February 2026 (UTC)
The dates listed in the information panel stating "11–31 July 1995 (Srebrenica only)" are incorrect, the proceedings primarily used the date of the 19th not the 31st.
editPer THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
https://www.icty.org/x/cases/popovic_old/ind/en/pop-ii020326e.htm#:~:text=This%20joint%20criminal%20enterprise%20took%20place%20over%20a%20seven%20day%20period%20from%2012%20July%20until%20about%2019%20July%201995. Arksern (talk) 03:02, 24 February 2026 (UTC)
- The article is in a weird position of having two sets of data, because 'officially' according to the actual trial only Srebrenica was a genocide, but unofficially a lot of people claim the entire Bosnian war was a genocide ~2026-19794-12 (talk) 00:10, 2 April 2026 (UTC)
- I don't mean to be rude, but why would we ever accept the unofficial over the official? I'm not intimately familiar with Wikipedia's guidelines, but there has to be some hierarchy of source validity right? And surely the court itself is the ultimate source on what constituted the actual Bosnian Genocide? So the "unofficial" claims just seem irrelevant. Arksern (talk) 10:28, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
Source Link "Srebrenica - a Safe Haven" not working
editI was going through the External Links section of the page and I found that the Internet Archive link for "Srebrenica - a Safe Haven" (https://web.archive.org/web/20070929214505/http://srebrenica.brightside.nl/srebrenica/) no longer works. I've tried going through the Internet Archive manually to see if I could find it again, but had no luck. Should the broken link on the page get taken down? ~Hrgrant Hrgrant (talk) 00:18, 25 February 2026 (UTC)