Talk:Kosovo student poisoning

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On the 22nd March 1990, over 400 students and children were treated for displaying symptoms characterizing poisoning. The out-break was seen as a Serb plot to exterminate ethnic-Albanians, and fulfill nationalistic goals and desires. Serb officials called it "mass hysteria" and propaganda perpetrated by Albanian separatists. The out-break was followed by protests and assaults on Kosovar Serbs and Montenegrins by 4000 ethnic-Albanians.

There are no independent sources that can verify claims in the article, and medical studies showed there was no poisoning. It looks like we have another case of mass hysteria, right here on Wikipedia. Perunova straža (talk) 22:50, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There are medical studies cited throughout the article. Also, At the same time, a mysterious episode, apparently of poisoning provoked fury among the Albanian population. ... The authorities did not permit a proper investigation by Albanians but offered a diagnosis of mass hysteria. --— ZjarriRrethues — ^talk 17:57, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That particular publication mentions an "alleged" poisoning. WikiuserNI (talk) 12:51, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

POV nightmare[edit]

This article is awful POV battleground. Not a single proper neutral source, and almost all sources are Albanian newspapers and comments with 0 credibility and neutrality. Most of the article is misrepresented, and entire article is just classical piece of propaganda. The best possible way for this would be to delete it, and STARTOVER. --Ąnαșταη (ταlκ) 20:01, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. These types of incidents seem to happen quite frequently in Albanian communities, with officials pointing to mass hysteria almost every time. See this incident in Macedonia in 1996, this one in Macedonia from 2005 , this one, again in Macedonia, in 2014 , and this one from Albania just last year . There was also an incident in Kosovo after the war in which Kosovo Albanian students reported similar symptoms, with their parents accusing Serbs of attempting to poison their children (this was after the Yugoslav government's withdrawal in 1999). 23 editor (talk) 13:07, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Who is Göran Wassenius and why is his self-published and unreferenced view presented as the main in the article?--Zoupan 23:39, 30 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]