Talk:Battle of Matejče

Vandalism by GoofyGoofson

Again GoofyGoofson is vandalising Pages by deleting Sources and spreading false info.

Here some examples

He changed the Result sayingg the Macedonian forces cease military operations citing 2 Source, one of which doesn't mention Matejce at all, the other one only mentioning shelling on 11 June by the Macedonian Army after they were forced to withdraw from the village.

He claims the NLA held civilians as Human shields, which was proven false by Taz, who interviewed local civilians, that clearly denied the claim.

https://taz.de/!1170171/

He deleted the 5 sources, one of which from the Macedonian Institute for Media, which clearly state that the Macedonian army withdrew from Matejce and that the NLA captured the village. Karadakli230 (talk) 20:38, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

The Macedonian offensives in the entire Kumanovo-Lipkovo region were cancelled so it doesn't have to mention Vaksince specifically as the entire region had civilians trapped in the villages.

The Macedonian source you claim is not Macedonian, it is an article written by several authors, the one you QUOTE is an article written by ISO RUSI an Albanian journalist who worked for the NLA. IT is literally an NLA claim.

The civlians in Vaksince and Kumanovo region WERE human shields whether they stayed there voluntarily or not. I also added citations from the Red Cross, and International Observers who also interviewed the civilians but they mentioned that it as impossible to know if they stayed on their own free will because there were always armed NLA members present.

>https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/05/09/in-rebel-held-towns-macedonians-remain-as-shells-rain-down/71bd89b4-58db-4e5f-a96d-a60d649a6085/

This is an article from the Washington Post

>For whatever reason, they are functioning as human shields in a combat zone. Their continued presence means the army cannot pursue the all-out war and ground assault it says is necessary to defeat the rebels and stamp out a new full-scale ethnic conflict in the Balkans.

>In brief interviews in the basement here, several women voiced support for the rebellion. But with armed fighters standing over them, it was not possible to know if they genuinely felt that way. Stamm said he believes that support for the insurrection, fear of the government and perhaps influence from the guerrillas may all play roles.

I never once claimed the NLA were using them as human shields i said the Macedonian government claimed that, which the NLA denied, you are the one vandalizing by claiming it was "Macedonian propaganda" because one Albanian woman said that for a German newspaper.

Regardless of the fact as my CITATION says they were still human shields and they still prevented the Macedonian Army from conducting an offensive, whether they stayed there as human shields or not.

All my sources were cited, the battle was inconclusive and lasted longer than June 5th, i also added citations that there was a ceasefire 4th-5th June to evacuate civlians which is when the NLA declared victory but you deleted them all without reading them because you edit articles in bad faith.

GoofyGoofyson (talk) 13:03, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

1. Why are you talking about Vaksince? We are on the Battle of Matejče, One source that you added doesn't mention the village at all, but they do have to mention the village, you can't just use an article that mentions other villages in the region and apply it to Matejče, which it doesn't mention.

2. It doesn't matter if its written by an Albanian or not, the source was still published by the Macedonian Institute for Media, also I found no backing up for the claim you put out, that this Author "worked for the NLA". Also even IF it is an Albanian claim, why did you delete the other 2 Sources literally claiming the same thing, that the NLA took Matejce and that Macedonian Units were withdrawn from the village?

3. The source you use to claim Human shields here is from 9 May 2001, when Macedonian Forces still had FULL control over the village.

4. "Regardless of the fact as my CITATION says they were still human shields and they still prevented the Macedonian Army from conducting an offensive, whether they stayed there as human shields or not."

Either you are trolling or you are just blind to read the sources, the Macedoian Army conducted TWO offensives on the village to drive the NLA out.

One on 26th-28th March

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1355824.stm

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-may-27-mn-3231-story.html

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/rebels-in-clashes-with-macedonian-troops-1.310146

And one on 2nd June

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/02/world/macedonian-troops-again-trying-to-retake-rebel-held-village.html

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/65502/Macedonian-Troops-Try-Again-to-Retake-Village

https://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/06/02/macedonia.clashes/index.html

5. "All my sources were cited, the battle was inconclusive and lasted longer than June 5th, i also added citations that there was a ceasefire 4th-5th June to evacuate civlians which is when the NLA declared victory but you deleted them all without reading them because you edit articles in bad faith."

NONE of your sources claim that the Battle was inconclusive. IN FACT none of them claim any outcome of the Battle, while Karadakli230's and Albanian 7's do. The Battle lasted until 5th June 2001 when Macedonian Forces withdrew from the village, ONLY the shelling of the village continued until 11th June, which is already cited in the results. Also stop misquoting the Citiations, the NLA claimed victory on 6th June, AFTER the ceasefire not on 5th June while the ceasefire was still going on.

Also that YOU claim anyone is editing articles in bad faith is hilarious, you literally vandalise every page that has anything to do with the Conflict in Macedonia, you only edited pages about the Conflict in Macedonia, Your WHOLE account exists only to edit on the Conflict in Macedonia and spread false information. Drenicak32 (talk) 18:50, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Issues with the article

Aside from the bad grammar and bare references, there is also the problem of the article claiming that the local monastery was destroyed while the article on the monastery says that it was looted and descecrated.--Catlemur (talk) 00:59, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

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Results of the battle

Macedonia won the battle of matejce accoryding to http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1355824.stm&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjn2rPgu-P_AhWFhP0HHZqkDWUQFnoECAUQAg&usg=AOvVaw2ctXaWsMsmwDsufGIRHfts witch is a source from BBC in 2001 unlike the albanian sources most albanian fascist use Walter white502930291 (talk) 12:42, 27 June 2023 (UTC)

The link does not work for me. --Local hero ^talk 01:42, 28 June 2023 (UTC)