Talk:South West Africa People's Organization

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Contents 1 Question 2 Removed broken link 3 NPOV 4 Norwegian aid 5 Weasel Words

[edit] Question

I don't really know enough about SWAPO to know if this is written in a NPOV, but it seems a little suspect - anyone know a bit more about this organization? --81.134.153.235 22:53, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

It may not be perfect, but lacking further details about what is "suspect", and lacking further input over the past month, I'm going to remove the npov tag. It looks potentially fair to me; here's a military force that fought for independence, did some bad stuff, and runs the country now. CDC (talk) 18:15, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Removed broken link

The link to the official website was broken, so I removed it --Werdna648 12:39, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

wasn't connected to the lives of future Namibians not in exile.

What does this mean? I think it's potentially POV. aliceinlampyland 11:26, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

I have removed this section, as well as (temporarily) fixing another which I feel to be a problem NPOV-wise. The section that alleges human rights abuses is unsatisfactory without a reference. aliceinlampyland 19:09, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

It seems that User:Sooibrand has been filling this article with South-African POV on July 9th this year. The article should either be completely reverted or completely rewritten. --213.220.104.152 11:08, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Norwegian aid

"The Norwegian government began giving aid directly to SWAPO in 1974." The way it's written, it looks like the Norwegian government is still giving them aid. I find this hard to believe; more likely, they gave them aid during the liberation struggle, and now that Namibia is democratic, Norway gives aid to the government rather than one political party. LittleDan^talk 04:04, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Weasel Words

"Some say SWAPO was responsible for human rights abuses against its own cadres during the period of exile. The most serious of these was the detainee issue, which remains a divisive issue"

I've tagged these two sentences as using weasel words ("Some say" is a classic example). I know that the ANC was found guilty of torturing/killing some of its members who were suspected of being spies, so it wouldn't surprise me if SWAPO did the same thing. However, we do need to find a citation for this. Pjones (talk) 11:59, 24 March 2008 (UTC)