Wars Endor
‘My Buddy Drojti Was Stationed At The River Tunnel That Connects To Our Hydroelectric Power Station When The Serbs Came Through It,’ Asserted Our Host, Ante.
While the U. S. marks ten years after the attacks in N. Y that led to 2 wars and basic 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 cities, Dubrovnik. That started a two-year war on their lonesome soil.
“My buddy Drojti was stationed at the brook tunnel that connects to our hydroelectric power station when the Serbs came through it,” announced our host, Ante. “He ran down the hill, leaped into the sea and swam the 20 kilometers to the old town.
“The folk who couldn’t leave Dubrovnik went into the old city because they thought the Serbs would never attack it,” Ante continued, with bitterness in his voice. “But over two thousand 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 ago, it was hard to picture the elimination. Just when we saw the Serbian television pictures did the actuality sink in. Now, lovingly and meticulously rebuilt, Dubrovnik is once more a superb illustration of medieval life. And families still live there, doing almost all of similar things they did way back. Only now, the Universal Teen can be discovered even here. While Ante gave us a personal history lesson, a bunch of young people strolled noisily by, dressed pretty much the same as in the United States, earbuds connected into their smartphones, guffawing at us tourists.
“What’s the economy like now?” I asked Ante.
“Not so good,” he answered. “After the war, we had to rebuild our industry, but plenty of our folk had sold their property and left to the U.S, to New Zealand, Britain and other places. Many houses were deserted. After ten years, things started to boost because Continentals started to build homes here, start companies, and tourists returned. Then in 2008, the worldwide economic recession just put everything into reverse. Tourism is just beginning to improve. But we need different sources of industry.”
I was thinking about the population emigrating, making a guess that most of them would be younger folk, those who had not started a family. Having a look at the stunning natural beauty of the Dalmatian coast, I could see it had been a place of great nourishment for the adult soul and really boring for youngsters.
Ante confirmed this was indeed the case.
“Our youth are not staying in enough numbers to create our future growth,” he revealed. “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 liked to be called “Sam”), a person 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 folk. We were lucky to have such a credible source of info, and we made use of it.
“So, Sam, what was the civil war about?” I asked. “It was portrayed by our media as an ethnic war, that supposed ethnic ‘cleansing ‘ was what the Serbians were after.”
Sam explained, “Well, actually , Serbs, Slovenians, Croats and Bosnians are ethnically identical. We share identical ancient roots going back to the time of the Illyrians who formed the 1st regional identity beyond tiny tribes about three thousand years ago. The conflict goes back to when the Roman Empire broke 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 paramount in what came to be called the Byzantine Empire. The orthodox religion does not recognise the pope as the illustration of Jesus ‘ church, the priests can marry, and the sacraments are dissimilar, among many other things. Slovenia and Croatia are on the west side of the dividing line. The Serbian aggression was truly about spiritual ‘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 often equality across the bigger nation,” Sam expounded. “But the region of Slovenia was the commercial powerhouse. We had a tiny fraction of the total population, but we were the source of 30 % of Yugoslavia’s GDP. Croatia had the gorgeous coast and many picturesque islands where ancient villages still flourished. Croatia was the holiday maker mecca for Yugoslavians and many 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, wanted to exercise the greatest power over the course of the country. When Tito died, Serbian ambitions re-emerged, and their wish to control the 2 wealthiest regions of the old Yugoslavia drove them to attack 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 exclusive rights to his legacy, envious folk would try and take away what others had out of envy and greediness. Perhaps he does know as reported tagza.com.
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