Talk:32 Battalion (South Africa)

message: I get a couple of things from this article:
#1: Battalion 32 was a mighty and wonderful combat machine, the likes of which will never be seen again.
#2: They were betrayed and treated shamefully.
In other words, this article is severely NPOV, and reads like a tribute to Battalion 32.
ManicParroT (talk) 01:08, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, have done something about the first paragraph. Babakathy (talk) 08:33, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: and the rest.Babakathy (talk) 10:05, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

text: It isn't biased at all.  It is true that the members were betrayed by the politicians - a common fate of good soldiers.JohnC (talk) 07:07, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

text: I would suggest that it is neither fair not accurate to state that the battalion was "used 'immorally' (value judgement, I know, but it's a useful shortcut to what I mean) by an oppressive minority government both in action against that government's enemies and held as a threat against their own citizens." It was a military force, used by a highly professional armed forces in entirely military operations. That sounds pretty moral to me. As for the government being oppressive, that is your opinion. The suggestion that it was used against "that government's enemies and held as a threat against their own citizens" is an entirely false claim. It was never used politically either in SWA or in RSA115.188.155.200 (talk) 03:15, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: Boys will did what we were required to do,... all glory too you
Maj AS.Muller (MMM)
75371849  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.19.4.153 (talk) 21:21, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Glory to the Solders 

message: There is nothing about the Battalion's modus operandi - eg the fact that the frontline platoons ordinarily wore SWAPO uniforms and carried AK47s, or the arrangement by which these platoons were screened from the rest of the then SADF for obvious reasons. There is nothing indicating the specific bases which were used by 32 Battalion: Omauni (main operational base), Buffalo Base in the Caprivi Strip (home base for the Battalion enlisted men), Elundu (signals and supply only; shared with other SADF units). Should something of this not be included?
David FLXD (talk) 14:57, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  More detailed information about operations and equipment 

message: The last line under History in the 32Bn article refers:
"Although the main bulk of the battalion was based at Buffalo on the banks of the Okavango, the HQ was in Rundu, 200 km to the east" [citation needed]
I was stationed in Rundu from October 1984 to December 1985 and can confirm that 32 battalion's HQ was in Rundu during this period. By the way, one reason it was called Buffalo battalion was the badge on their camoflage beret was the head of an African Buffalo, face on.
Tjc1961 (talk) 09:26, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  32 Bn HQ location 

message: It is not logical to say that "Because they were arrested in Zimbabwe, it is not clear whether any of those arrested had full knowledge of their final destination or the alleged coup d'état". There is not association between the two parts of the sentence. They could have been arrested on the Moon, that does not suggest that they did or did not know the final destination.115.188.155.200 (talk) 03:10, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Knowledge of destination of coup 

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message: A quick google search for "32 battalion war crimes" gets TONNES of results including first person accounts and reports by high profile outlets by the likes of Vice, but as far as I can see the only mention of any untoward behaviour in this entire article is one line mentioning Phola Park that leaves out, for instance, that members of the unit were accused of a number of rapes during the incident in addition to shooting civilians. 118.210.209.65 (talk) 15:53, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Very little mention of controversial actions