Wars Aurra Sing
‘My Friend Drojti Was Stationed At The Stream Tunnel That Connects To Our Hydroelectric Power Station When The Serbs Came Through It,’ Asserted Our Host, Ante.
While the U. S. marks 10 years after the attacks in New York that led to 2 wars and fundamental changes in how American citizens view their security, Croatia solemnly recollects the 1991 incursion of Serbian troops and shelling of one of their most beloved towns, Dubrovnik. That started a two-year war all alone soil.
“My mate Drojti was stationed at the river tunnel that connects to our hydroelectric power station when the Serbs came through it,” recounted our host, Ante. “He ran down the hill, jumped into the ocean and swam the twenty kilometers to the old town.
“The people who could not leave Dubrovnik went into the old city because they thought the Serbs would never attack it,” Ante continued, with sourness in his voice. “But over 2,000 shells struck the city, and 68 percent of the buildings had damage, some totally gutted by fire.”
As Cheri and I walked through the ancient town, over stone streets that were laid centuries back, it was hard to picture the elimination. Only when we saw the Serbian television pictures did the reality sink in. Now, lovingly and meticulously reconstructed, Dubrovnik is once again a wonderful representation of medieval life. And families still live there, doing almost all of the same stuff they did long ago. Only now, the Universal Teen can be discovered even here. While Ante gave us a personal history lesson, a group of youngsters strolled noisily by, dressed pretty much the same as in the United States, earbuds connected into their smartphones, giggling at us visitors.
“What’s the economy like now?” I asked Ante.
“Not so good,” he responded. “After the war, we had to rebuild our industry, but plenty of our people had sold their property and left to the U.S, to New Zealand, Britain and other places. Many homes were deserted. After ten years, things started to enhance because Europeans began to build homes here, start businesses, and visitors returned. Then in 2008, the world business recession just put everything into reverse. Tourism is just beginning to improve. But we need other sources of industry.”
I thought about the population emigrating, making a guess that most of them would be younger folk, those that had not started a family. Looking at the shocking natural sweetness of the Dalmatian coast, I could see it’s a place of great nourishment for the adult soul and truly uninteresting for kids.
Ante confirmed that this was indeed the case.
“Our youth are not staying in enough numbers to create our future growth,” he claimed. “Many of them are getting degrees in economics and business, but there aren’t many growing industries here to employ them.”
This same story was repeated by Samoj (he liked to be called “Sam”), a man we shared drinks and a table with in Korcula, another walled town on an island of the same name further north. Sam is a Slovenian, trained as an attorney and historian, working for a research institute in his home country of about 3,000,000 people. We were fortunate to have such a credible source of information, and we took advantage of it.
“So, Sam, what was the civil war about?” I asked. “It was portrayed by our media as an ethnic war, that so-called ethnic ‘cleansing ‘ was what the Serbians were after.”
Sam explained, “Well, in actual fact Serbs, Slovenians, Croats and Bosnians are ethnically identical. We share similar ancient roots returning to the time of the Illyrians who formed the first regional identity beyond little clans about 3,000 years back. The conflict goes back to when the Roman Empire split up and was divided between an eastern area and a western one. When that happened, Catholicism under a Roman pope ruled the western empire, while the Eastern Orthodox Church was paramount in what came to be called the Byzantine Empire. The orthodox faith does not recognize the pope as the representation of Jesus ‘ church, the clergymen can marry, and the sacraments are dissimilar, among plenty of other things. Slovenia and Croatia are on the west side of the dividing line. The Serbian aggression was really about non secular ‘cleansing, ‘ and of course, it was about money.”
“How did economics play into the war?” I asked.
“Under Tito, when we were all one country, there had been often equality across the bigger nation,” Sam expounded. “But the area of Slovenia was the economic powerhouse. We had a little fragment of the total population, but we were the source of thirty % of Yugoslavia’s GDP. Croatia had the attractive coast and many beautiful islands where ancient villages still prospered. Croatia was the traveller mecca for Yugoslavians and many Western european nations on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Ever since Yugoslavia was first created after World War I, the Serbians, who were the most in number, wished to exercise the greatest influence over the course of the country. When Tito died, Serbian ambitions re-emerged, and their desire to control the 2 wealthiest areas of the old Yugoslavia drove them to attack when Slovenia and Croatia announced their independence.”
It occurred to me as I listened to Sam that Jesus would find it sad if he knew that in the name of saying sole rights to his bequest, jealous people would attempt to take away what others had out of envy and greed. Perhaps he does know as reported tagza.com.
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LEGO Star Wars 7930 Bounty Hunter Assault Gunship $49.99 From the Season 2 Clone Wars episode “Bounty Hunters!” Sugi, Embo, and Aurra Sing get their LEGO figure debut! Big vehicle ready to hunt or to protect! Defending farmers on Felucia or tracking down a quarry in the stars, this amazing ship is ready for anything! With poseable wings, pirate gangs will need to watch their backs. 389 pieces. |
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Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing $9.89 Acclaimed journalist Ted Conover sets a new standard for bold, in-depth reporting in this first-hand account of life inside the penal system. When Conover’s request to shadow a recruit at the New York State Corrections Officer Academy was denied, he decided to apply for a job as a prison officer. So begins his odyssey at Sing Sing, once a model prison but now the state’s most troubled maximum-security facility. The result of his year there is this remarkable look at one of America’s most dangerous prisons, where drugs, gang wars, and sex are rampant, and where the line between violator and violated is often unclear. As sobering as it is suspenseful, Newjack is an indispensable contribution to the urgent debate about our country’s criminal justice system, and a consistently fascinating read. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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