User talk:HanzoHattori

Article improvement

Hello Hanzo. I've seen that you wrote Ahmići massacre article. I also write articles related to recent Balkan wars, but based just on relaible sources per WP:RS and WP:Verifiability policy, because I think that is the only way to write good article and to avoide edit wars and nationalistic vandalism. So I wrote very important article about Lašva Valley ethnic cleansing where I treated Ahmići massacre and other massacres which were part of the same war crimes plan according to ICTY, but I also linked your article for more information. So I didn't want to improve your article before you, as you are the author, and if you want you can improve it including paragraphs I wrote, because they are all sourced and double checked (from two or more verdicts). I would also like your opinion about my article as you are very good contributor. Regards. The Dragon of Bosnia 12:37, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

I didn't exactly write the Ahmići article, I only contributed to it. (Actually just a cleanup - now further.) --HanzoHattori 17:51, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Investigation of Politkovskaya case

Hi Hanzo, there is now English version of Novaya Gazeta; they just published interesting article [1]. Could you take a look please? According to them, Russian Procuror-General Chaika intentionally leaked the information to destroy the case, and they let go one of suspects who was actually involved. What do you think? Please feel free to correct articles about Politkovskaya as needed, if you want. Best wishes, Biophys 04:37, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I heard about this theory, it was also in other the Russian (Moscow Times?) and the foreign press. Previously it was alleged they wanted to frame Berezovsky into this too (he's now becoming being like Goldstein from 1984). I think you are doing the good work on the articles. --HanzoHattori 06:22, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. You might be interested in this : [2].Biophys 04:02, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

P.S. Yes, Berezovsky is painted exactly like "vrazina" Trotsky, the prototype of Emmanuel Goldstein. It is noteworthy that Golsteins book was called "The Theory and Practice Of Oligarchical Collectivism". Hence the oligarch Berezovsky.Biophys 04:32, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

I have a problem with

There is the third person, who has taken photos of the victims of the Chechen war and crimes of the Russian military. He is an author of the photographs of hundreds of Chechens who were tortured and violently killed in the town of Sadikurt. We hope that these photographs will be used as evidence in court, much like with the Nazis at Nuremburg, against political and military authorities of the Russian Federation.

I'm not sure, but I think these were the fighters who were killed during the withdrawal from Grozny. Now, it wasn't actually all that bad on the side of the Russian army. The heads sticking out from the ground look gruesomly, but it was actually to make their identification easier for the families. They didn't destroy the bodies, they didn't even just bury them in a large hole altogether. If you remember the pictures from Grozny in 1995, similar thing was done with the bodies of civilians, just not covered with earth.

Now they burn all the enemy bodies and call it "a law", but back then someone evidently took care to adhere to Geneva conventions (according to Highway of Death mass burials are prohibited, not to even mention the deliberate destruction of bodies being "legally" practicised since 2002). --HanzoHattori 09:25, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

The exhibition is unneceserelly biased on several points. For example, the picture captioned "marauders"[3] shows just a security check for weapons. all the "aggressors, murderers" vs "heroes" on the other side, etc, doesn't help. I see this often in Chechnya campaigning, and I think the much better effect would be archived by showing just the objective thruths. You know, the NPOV policy ;) I don't know how to contact the webmaster, you may forward this if you can. --HanzoHattori 09:35, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

And btw, one would make the article on the order legalising destruction of bodies (including Maskhadov's, who in 1995 posted armed guards to shoot the dogs eating heaps of Russian soldiers). --HanzoHattori 09:50, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Yes, all your points are valid. I just thought about a possibility to use some of those photos in WP articles. Maybe it worth asking organizers of the exhibition about a permission.Biophys 15:25, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

As about bodies, they are often sold for money to the relatives of the executed Chechens. Relatives of Russian soldiers often were not notified at all. Once, a Russian mother had received a coffin with a body of someone who was not her son.Biophys 15:39, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

I mean it's entirely possible that they were sold after the identifaction, but it's better than if they were destroyed (including "legally"), or simply buried in a secret location (like thousands of the "dissappeared"). The captions also seem to claim they're civilians, which I doubt I remotely remember this event (it was in 2000, you know). --HanzoHattori 17:36, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

2006 Digampathana truck bombing

Hi Hanzo. I see that you removed the Category:Suicide bombing from 2006 Digampathana truck bombing page without state the reason. Why was that :-) ?? --♪♫ ĽąĦĩŘǔ ♫♪ ^{walkie-talkie} 15:38, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Tiger attacks are all already in the cat. --HanzoHattori 15:40, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

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