Wars Death
While The United States Marks Ten Years After The Attacks In N. Y That Led On To 2 Wars And Elemental Changes In How USA Citizens View Their Security, Croatia Solemnly Recalls The 1991 Incursion Of Serbian Troops And Shelling Of One Of Their Most Loved Towns, Dubrovnik.
While the US marks ten years after the attacks in N. Y that led on to two wars and basic changes in how Americans view their security, Croatia solemnly recalls the 1991 incursion of Serbian troops and shelling of one of their most adored towns, Dubrovnik. That started a two-year war on their own soil.
“My friend Drojti was stationed at the brook tunnel that connects to our hydroelectric power station when the Serbs came thru it,” announced our host, Ante. “He ran down the hill, leaped into the sea and swam the 20 kilometers to the old city.
“The folk who couldn’t leave Dubrovnik went into the old city because they suspected the Serbs would never attack it,” Ante continued, with sourness in his voice. “But over two thousand shells struck the city, and 68 p.c of the buildings had damage, some totally gutted by fire.”
As Cheri and I walked thru the traditional city, over stone streets that were laid centuries back, it was hard to fantasize the destruction. Only when we saw the Serbian television pictures did the reality sink in. Now, lovingly and accurately reconstructed, Dubrovnik is once more a fabulous illustration of medieval life. And families still live there, doing most of similar things they did long ago. Only now, the Universal Teen can be found even here. While Ante gave us a personal history lesson, a bunch of youngsters mooched noisily by, dressed just about the same as in the United States, earbuds plugged 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 lots of our folk had sold their property and left to the U.S, to New Zealand, England and other places. Many homes were abandoned. After ten years, things started to enhance because Continentals started to build homes here, start companies, and visitors returned. Then in 2008, the global economic recession just put everything into reverse. Tourism is just starting to improve. But we need different sources of industry.”
I was thinking about the population emigrating, making a guess that many of them would be younger people, those that had not started a family. Taking a look at the shocking natural beauty of the Dalmatian coast, I could see it was a place of great nourishment for the adult soul and actually boring for youngsters.
Ante confirmed this was indeed the case.
“Our youth are not staying in enough numbers to create our future growth,” he said. “Many of them are getting degrees in economics and business, but there are few growing industries here to use them.”
This same story was repeated by Samoj (he loved to be called “Sam”), a person we shared drinks and a table with in Korcula, another walled city on an island of the same name further north. Sam is a Slovenian, trained as a solicitor and historian, working for a research institute in his home country of approximately 3 million folks. We were lucky to have such a convincing 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 fact Serbs, Slovenians, Croats and Bosnians are ethnically matching. We share similar ancient roots returning to the time of the Illyrians who formed the 1st regional identity beyond tiny clans about three thousand years ago. The conflict goes back to when the Roman Empire split up and was divided between an eastern area and a western one. When that occurred, Catholicism under a Roman pope ruled the western empire, while the Eastern Orthodox Church was predominant in what came to be called the Byzantine Empire. The orthodox faith does not recognise the pope as the illustration of Jesus ‘ church, the monks can marry, and the sacraments are dissimilar, among lots of other things. Slovenia and Croatia are on the west side of the dividing line. The Serbian aggression was really about religious ‘cleansing, ‘ and obviously, it was about money.”
“How did economics play into the war?” I asked.
“Under Tito, when we were all one country, there had been typically equality across the larger nation,” Sam claimed. “But the region of Slovenia was the industrial powerhouse. We had a small fragment of the total population, but we were the source of thirty percent of Yugoslavia’s G. D. P. Croatia had the gorgeous coast and many beautiful islands where ancient hamlets still prospered. Croatia was the holiday maker mecca for Yugoslavians and many Western european states on each side of the Iron Curtain. Ever since Yugoslavia was first made after World War I, the Serbians, who were the most in number, wished to exercise the greatest power over the course of the country. When Tito died, Serbian ambitions re-emerged, and their need to control the two richest regions of the old Yugoslavia drove them to invade when Slovenia and Croatia declared 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 legacy, jealous folk would try to take away what others had out of envy and gluttony. Maybe he does know as reported tagza.com.
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