Talk:Safe Area Goražde

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Contents 1 Corrected publishing date 2 Resources 3 Misrepresentation, etc. 4 Bias and all that. 5 Eisner award.

[edit] Corrected publishing date

The first hardcover edition came out in 2000. Safe Area Gorazde was republished in softcover in 2002. btpnlsl

[edit] Resources

Some pages to help a man get going. Or a woman: God knows I'd love to have more around here. Hope they help! Good luck, lads. Snoutwood (talk) 06:14, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

• Fantagraphics summary of the book
• Interview with iComics
• Review by iComics
• Review by January Magazine
• Review by the Crimes of War Project
• Review by Gorazde.info

[edit] Misrepresentation, etc.

Any issues regarding Safe Area Gorazde telling only "one part of the story" should be backed up with some references. A judgement to the effect that it should "be read carefully" shouldn't be in a wikipedia article. Back up what you're saying - if you do that I've no problem. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.192.211.24 (talk) 20:42, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Bias and all that.

"Therefore the book should be read carefully, as it portrays only part of the story." - comments like that are unacceptable in any encyclopedia, anywhere. It amounts to a direction to the reader, and wikipedia shouldn't be doing that.

The book deals with the experiences of living with muslims in Gorazde. Just say that, leave it to the reader to decide what is biased or not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.192.211.24 (talk) 10:06, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

The fact is there is a kind of “Serb Nationalist Cabal” of Milosevic-Mladic-Arkan apologizers here in Wikipedia that has been successful in distorting many articles about Yugoslavia and Serbia. For those who read them, it seems like the serbs were always the victimes, and never the perpetrators.

All of this is very sickening.

I'm removeing the “Controversy” section in the article because it was clearly fabricated to indulge a pro-Serb nationalist bias, and the book cited is clearly irrelevant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.42.20.236 (talk) 18:31, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

The book is a very biased unreliable depiction of the war. I am not talking about pro-Serb nationalism, what I am talking about are the facts that Sacco's comic leaves out. He makes it seem like the people in Gorazde are helpless, yet he does not state some facts like that they had an arms factory, Also, for example, there were ceasefire agreements that the muslims broke, which triggered some harsh Serbian responce, and Sacco portrays this as Serbs unprovokedly going in and slaughtering innocent civilians. Then to claim that the Serbs used chemical weapons in Srebrenica. However, there are some truths to the book, but it's heavily biased. (LAz17 15:28, 22 October 2007 (UTC)).

If you think that what happened in Gorazde was not a civil Bosnian massacre perpetrated by Serbian forces and put the Serbian atrocities commited there and in another Bosnian cities as a mere “reaction to Muslim atrocities”, sorry but you are being really a full Orthodox pro-Serb nationalist — it’s like to say that the Srebrenica Massacre never happened or that Mladic and Arkan were just “combative Serbs who defended their nation”. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.13.104.222 (talk) 09:19, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Of course it was not a civilian onslaught. Sure, civilians were victims, but they were not the only victims. I do not deny that the Srebrenica massacre did not happen. I do feel that self defense was a key thing, and that the use of fear of muslims dominated again caused much of what happened to happen. But that is beside the point. The clear fact is that you are someone who has lots of serbophobia. And it seems that you are posting off of a few IPs... please make a user-name. This book is extremely biased. It mentions nothing of the fact that Gorazde had a munitions factory - its name was Pobjeda in case you want to look into that. The book ignores other happenings, like many muslim reinforcements entering the enclave in march of 1993. Or for example that on March 1994, the muslims in Gorazde shattered the cease fire agreement. Just check the report on May 1994, published by the Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, House Republican Research Committe of the House of Representatives (USA). (LAz17 04:12, 3 November 2007 (UTC)).

[edit] Eisner award.

Safe Area Gorazde won an Eisner award in 2001, it is a verifiable fact, the end. Have a nice day. Too bad if you don't like it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.192.211.24 (talk) 13:52, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

I added some more awards that the comic received. (LAz17 00:48, 29 October 2007 (UTC)).