Talk:Martyrs' Cemetery

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Did You Know An entry from Martyrs' Cemetery appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 19 October 2006.
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[edit] Good Sourcing

It's great that this article is so thoroughly sourced. --Impaciente 22:31, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, always glad to see work appreciated :) I was lucky though, in fairness, it seems during a one-week span, a slew of journalists decided to cover burials here and write near-identical articles, basically only varying in whether they called it football or soccer, and which epitaph/description to include as an example :) Sherurcij (Speaker for the Dead) 00:19, 20 October 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Questionable Sources

Don't you think that it is ironic that a slew of journalist release almost identical articles? And not one single article mentions that mostly insurgents are buried there, or that the civilian deaths may be caused by the insurgents themselves. Or that every article is decidely 'anti-American'. One article you referenced (#1) is even an Editorial Article (no POV there). Yet another article is incorrectly cited (#11). You state that a young Omar was killed, whereas the article states it was his older insurgent brother who was.

There was a makeshift graveyard made in the main cemetery in Fallluja in 2004. However, in Arabic, a martyrs cemetery is roughly the same as our veterans cemetery. Virtually every town over here has one. After asking around for nearly four months, the residents here in Falluaja can only identify one 'martyrs cemetery'. It is located north of Fallujah, and has had no one buried in it for more than 125 years. From this and other Wiki contributions regarding Iraq, I understand the author's position; as long as it is in print somewhere, then it is the truth, regardless of what is happening on the ground. It seems that you have become yet another sheep to the propaganda put out by insurgents in the form of 'NEWS'. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Angncon (talk • contribs) 11:26, 8 January 2008 (UTC)