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− | '''Wikipedia's''' article on the Bleiburg massacre,<ref> Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases by Inc Icon Group International</ref> is an article that reads as if it was written by the former ''Communist Party of Yugoslavia''. It is written in a non-encyclopaedic fashion and it has a dated writing approach that is reminiscent of the propaganda of the former Yugoslavia. | + | '''Wikipedia's''' article on the Bleiburg massacre, is an article that reads as if it was written by the former ''Communist Party of Yugoslavia''. It is written in a non-encyclopaedic fashion and it has a dated writing approach that is reminiscent of the propaganda of the former Yugoslavia. |
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| The article are mainly written by Editors from [[Croatia]] (Communists extremists) and supported by other Editors and Wikipedia-Administrators who have [[Communists|communist]] leanings and does not represent contemporary views. Sections of these articles are written in a child-like manner and reads like Communist's rhetoric '''spin'''. | | The article are mainly written by Editors from [[Croatia]] (Communists extremists) and supported by other Editors and Wikipedia-Administrators who have [[Communists|communist]] leanings and does not represent contemporary views. Sections of these articles are written in a child-like manner and reads like Communist's rhetoric '''spin'''. |
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− | '''Update''': Currently Wikipedian Editor ''Joy'' and others are attempting to make the article read as less biased. | + | '''Update''': Currently Wikipedian Editor ''Joy'' and others are attempting to make the article read as less biased. The article has been renamed ''Bleiburg repatriations''. |
| == Yugoslavia and the Bleiburg Massacre == | | == Yugoslavia and the Bleiburg Massacre == |
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| Aleksandar Rankovic at a Belgrade government meeting stated: {{Cquote|''Through our prisons has passed between 1945 and 1951, 3 777 776 prisoners, while we killed 586 000 enemies of the people.'' Taken from ''Politika'', Belgrade/1 February 1951 (p.1) <ref>[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7laAd_LLA6YJ:www.hic.hr/images/komunisticke-zlocinci-nisu-antifasizma.pdf+Zločina+počinjenih+od+strane+totalitarnih+režima+su+izvješća+i+postupak+Europske+javne+rasprave+u+organizaciji+slovenskog+predsjedništva+Vijeća&cd=4&hl=hr&ct=clnk&lr=lang_hr&source=www.google.com Communist Crime is not Antifascism] Released on International Human Rights Day, 10 DECEMBER 2008. On behalf of the participants in public meetings Maja Runje, a member of the Steering Committee- Zagreb (p. 19). Article is in Croatian: ''KOMUNISTIČKI ZLOČINI NISU ANTIFAŠIZAM] POVODOM MEĐUNARODNOG DANA LJUDSKIH PRAVA,10. PROSINCA 2008. U ime sudionika javnog okupljanja Maja Runje, članica Koordinacijskog odbora Kruga za trg10 000 Zagreb, Jurjevska 47a (str. 19)'' </ref>}} | | Aleksandar Rankovic at a Belgrade government meeting stated: {{Cquote|''Through our prisons has passed between 1945 and 1951, 3 777 776 prisoners, while we killed 586 000 enemies of the people.'' Taken from ''Politika'', Belgrade/1 February 1951 (p.1) <ref>[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7laAd_LLA6YJ:www.hic.hr/images/komunisticke-zlocinci-nisu-antifasizma.pdf+Zločina+počinjenih+od+strane+totalitarnih+režima+su+izvješća+i+postupak+Europske+javne+rasprave+u+organizaciji+slovenskog+predsjedništva+Vijeća&cd=4&hl=hr&ct=clnk&lr=lang_hr&source=www.google.com Communist Crime is not Antifascism] Released on International Human Rights Day, 10 DECEMBER 2008. On behalf of the participants in public meetings Maja Runje, a member of the Steering Committee- Zagreb (p. 19). Article is in Croatian: ''KOMUNISTIČKI ZLOČINI NISU ANTIFAŠIZAM] POVODOM MEĐUNARODNOG DANA LJUDSKIH PRAVA,10. PROSINCA 2008. U ime sudionika javnog okupljanja Maja Runje, članica Koordinacijskog odbora Kruga za trg10 000 Zagreb, Jurjevska 47a (str. 19)'' </ref>}} |
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| + | ==Joze Dezman== |
| + | '''Joze Dezman''' (director of the National Museum of Contemporary History in Ljubljana, (Slovenia) described the fundamental characteristics of the post-Second World War crimes: |
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| + | {{Cquote|''Killing civilians and prisoners of was after [[Second World War]] is the greatest massacre of unarmed people of all times in [[Slovenia|Slovenian]] territory. Compared to Europe, the Yugoslav communist massacres after the Second World War are probably right after the Stalinist purges and the Great Famine in the Ukraine. The number of those killed in Slovenia in spring of 1945 can now be estimated at more than 100,000, Slovenia was the biggest post- War killing site in Europe.'' |
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| + | ''It was a mixture of events, when in Slovenia there are retreating German units, collaborator units, units of Independent State of Croatia, Chetniks and Balkan civilians; more than 15,000 Slovenia inhabitants were murdered as well. Because of its brevity, number of casualties, way of execution and massiveness, it is an event that can be compared to the greatest crimes of [[Communists|communism]] and National Socialism.'' [http://internationallawobserver.eu/2009/06/22/responding-to-post-second-world-war-totalitarian-crimes-in-slovenia/ International Law Observer -''link'']}} |
| + | == Croatian Medical Journal == |
| + | * [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2705010/ Identification of Skeletal Remains of Communist Armed Forces Victims During and After World War II: ''LInk'']: Combined Y-chromosome Short Tandem Repeat (STR) and MiniSTR Approach. |
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| + | *'''Aim''':To report on the use of STR, Y-STRs, and miniSTRs typing methods in the identification of victims of revolutionary violence and crimes against humanity committed by the Communist Armed Forces during and after World War II in which bodies were exhumed from mass and individual graves in Slovenia. |
| + | * In 2006, the Commission for Recording and Managing Hidden Graves of the Major of the Municipality of Skofja Loka (a city located around 40 km to the northwest from the Slovenian capital Ljubljana) put in a significant effort to identify victims of the Communist Armed Forces discovered in 2 hidden mass graves uncovered at the location Lovrenska Grapa. <ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2705010/#R14 Identification of Skeletal Remains of Communist Armed Forces Victims During and After World War II:] Combined Y-chromosome Short Tandem Repeat (STR) and MiniSTR Approach-Croatian Medical Journal.</ref>}} |
| == Yugoslavia and Repatriated! == | | == Yugoslavia and Repatriated! == |
− | '''George Orwell''' once stated: | + | The article had this one very dubious sentence at the bottom of the ''Events'' chapter. Events chapter [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bleiburg_massacre&diff=prev&oldid=380511739#Events link]: |
| + | {{Cquote|[[Wikipedia]]: ''The vast majority of the refugees were returned to Yugoslavia and were repatriated as Yugoslav citizens via forced marches under inhumane conditions over long distances''. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bleiburg_massacre&diff=prev&oldid=380511739#Events|title=Wikipedia:Bleiburg Massacre |date=[[2010]]|accessdate=2010-10-07}}</ref>}}The key words are "'''repatriated''' as Yugoslav citizens".'''George Orwell''' once stated: |
| {{Cquote|''Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable'' <ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=my7MokQsXxIC&pg=PA258&dq=Political+language+is+designed+to+make+lies+sound+truthful+and+murder+respectable&hl=en#v=onepage&q=Political%20language%20is%20designed%20to%20make%20lies%20sound%20truthful%20and%20murder%20respectable&f=false The State of the Language] by Christopher Ricks & Leonard Michaels</ref>}} | | {{Cquote|''Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable'' <ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=my7MokQsXxIC&pg=PA258&dq=Political+language+is+designed+to+make+lies+sound+truthful+and+murder+respectable&hl=en#v=onepage&q=Political%20language%20is%20designed%20to%20make%20lies%20sound%20truthful%20and%20murder%20respectable&f=false The State of the Language] by Christopher Ricks & Leonard Michaels</ref>}} |
− | The article had this one very dubious sentence at the bottom of the ''Events'' chapter. Events chapter [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bleiburg_massacre&diff=prev&oldid=380511739#Events link]:
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− | {{Cquote|[[Wikipedia]]: ''The vast majority of the refugees were returned to Yugoslavia and were repatriated as Yugoslav citizens via forced marches under inhumane conditions over long distances''. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bleiburg_massacre&diff=prev&oldid=380511739#Events|title=Wikipedia:Bleiburg Massacre |date=[[2010]]|accessdate=2010-10-07}}</ref>}}
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− | The key words are "'''repatriated''' as Yugoslav citizens".
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| '''Concerning''' these events of repatriation into Yugoslav society (''via'' forced death marches- referring to Way of the Cross massacres), the [[Titoism and Totalitarianism#European Public Hearing on “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes"|European Public Hearing]] on “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes" stated: | | '''Concerning''' these events of repatriation into Yugoslav society (''via'' forced death marches- referring to Way of the Cross massacres), the [[Titoism and Totalitarianism#European Public Hearing on “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes"|European Public Hearing]] on “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes" stated: |
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| *''Amongst those documents are those mostly relating to Croatian territory although a majority of concentration camps and execution sites were outside of Croatia, in other parts of Yugoslavia. The author hopes that the readers will receive a complete picture about events related to ''Bleiburg'' and the Way of The Cross and the suffering of numerous Croats, which is confirmed directly in many documents and is related to the execution of a person or a whole group of people and sometimes non-stop for days.''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=27516&lang=en|title=Hrcak Portal of Scientific Journals of Croatia: An Addition to the Research of the Problem of Bleiburg & Way of the Cross|date=[[2010]]|accessdate=2010-10-07}} Scientific Journal by Zdravko Dizdar [http://www.unizg.hr/homepage/ University of Zagreb] </ref>}} | | *''Amongst those documents are those mostly relating to Croatian territory although a majority of concentration camps and execution sites were outside of Croatia, in other parts of Yugoslavia. The author hopes that the readers will receive a complete picture about events related to ''Bleiburg'' and the Way of The Cross and the suffering of numerous Croats, which is confirmed directly in many documents and is related to the execution of a person or a whole group of people and sometimes non-stop for days.''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=27516&lang=en|title=Hrcak Portal of Scientific Journals of Croatia: An Addition to the Research of the Problem of Bleiburg & Way of the Cross|date=[[2010]]|accessdate=2010-10-07}} Scientific Journal by Zdravko Dizdar [http://www.unizg.hr/homepage/ University of Zagreb] </ref>}} |
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− | '''Note''': The article has been edited on the 26 August 2010, current version:
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− | {{Cquote|[[Wikipedia]]: ''The vast majority of the refugees were returned to Yugoslavia via forced marches over long distances under inhumane conditions and the remaining survivors were repatriated as Yugoslav citizens.''}}
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− | ''It was a mixture of events, when in Slovenia there are retreating German units, collaborator units, units of Independent State of Croatia, Chetniks and Balkan civilians; more than 15,000 Slovenia inhabitants were murdered as well. Because of its brevity, number of casualties, way of execution and massiveness, it is an event that can be compared to the greatest crimes of [[Communists|communism]] and National Socialism.'' [http://internationallawobserver.eu/2009/06/22/responding-to-post-second-world-war-totalitarian-crimes-in-slovenia/ International Law Observer -''link'']}}
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− | *'''Aim''':To report on the use of STR, Y-STRs, and miniSTRs typing methods in the identification of victims of revolutionary violence and crimes against humanity committed by the Communist Armed Forces during and after World War II in which bodies were exhumed from mass and individual graves in Slovenia.
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| == Notes== | | == Notes== |