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[edit] Original Research

It seems to me that there is a lot of original research in this article. For example, the Yugoslav Wars section is 12 paragraphs long and contains only one citation. A great deal of this article needs to be re-written. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.162.196.155 (talk) 17:51, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

I have no particular objection to the material I deleted today except that none of it is verifyable. There was not a single citation or reference note in any of it. There are allegations of backroom deals (i.e. that the SFRY presidency supported the 1989 amendments to the Serbian constitution so that Serbia would support Ante Markovic's election as Premere). If this kind of thing is going to be alleged, then we need to know who is saying it and they need to be attributed. As far as I know Markovic was already the Premere when the amendments were adopted so I can't see how that would even be possible -- but I digress, there needs to be citation and attribution. If something is in the article that can not be verified it needs to be deleted until there is some documentation to back it up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.162.196.155 (talk) 20:12, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Citation for milosevic illegal tribunal icty

http://www.un.org/icty/transe54/020214IT.htm

Page 269

"I

7 consider that it is an illegal tribunal, and I have already stated that." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.61.141.171 (talk) 15:53, 8 January 2008 (UTC)


http://www.un.org/icty/transe54/010703IA.htm Initial Appearance:

3 THE ACCUSED: I consider this Tribunal a false Tribunal and the

4 indictment a false indictment. It is illegal being not appointed by the

5 UN General Assembly, so I have no need to appoint counsel to illegal

6 organ.

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/spch-icty.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.61.141.171 (talk) 16:11, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Birthday

Both Encyclopedia Britannica (a pretty authoritative and researched source) and CNN report Milošević's as August 29, not August 20, as previously noted in the article.
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9001502/Slobodan-Milosevic
http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/profiles/milosevic/frameset.exclude.html
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/03/11/milosovic.obit/index.html
Does someone have concrete proof of his precise birthday? Poldy Bloom (talk) 05:53, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

He was definitely born on the 20th of August. The SPS published his biography in 1991 and listed his birthday as the 20th of August, and the indictment at the Hague listed his birthday as August 20th. http://www.un.org/icty/indictment/english/mil-2ai011029e.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.162.196.155 (talk) 20:39, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Aftermath Section

The statment that Milosevic is cleared of Genocide and criminal activities because the ICJ ruled that Serbia only failed to prevent the Genocide commited by the Bosnian Serbs is false. A person(individual) is not the same as a state.If the state is cleared of involvment in Genocide that doesn't mean the president was. ICTY found Slobodan Milosevic guilty of a joint criminal enterprise in the case ICTY vs Milan Martic (Serbian leader in Croatia). So this statement in the Aftermath section is an attempt of cheap propaganda to mislead an impartial and uninformed reader.--(GriffinSB) (talk) 13:30, 28 May 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Trial section

The whole trial section is written in a apologetic way.Rather then focusing on the facts and the core of the trial,some editors want to confuse people and white-wash attrocities,genocide and massacres. Carla Del Ponte,The chief prossecutor of the ICTY said that ALL 66 ACCOUNTS of GENOCIDE were supported by evidence. So some Serb apologis found few phrases that can be taken out of context(something they usualy do) and put that in the spot-lite instead the evidence and witness accounts. Strange isn't it?

First of all ,where the F are the refferences(NPOV) that describe the trial as contraversial. After Milosevic's death and his escape from justice,Serb nationalists try to white-wash everything he did simply because he was not convicted.--(GriffinSB) (talk) 20:19, 30 May 2008 (UTC)