Wars Ewok
While The U. S. Marks 10 Years After The Attacks In N. Y That Led Straight To Two Wars And Basic Changes In How North Americans View Their Security, Croatia Solemnly Remembers The 1991 Incursion Of Serbian Troops And Shelling Of One Of Their Most Loved Cities, Dubrovnik.
While the US marks 10 years after the attacks in N. Y that led to two wars and basic changes in how Northern Americans view their security, Croatia solemnly recollects the 1991 incursion of Serbian troops and shelling of one of their most adored cities, Dubrovnik. That started a two year war on their own soil.
“My mate Drojti was stationed at the stream tunnel that connects to our hydroelectric power station when the Serbs came thru it,” said our host, Ante. “He ran down the hill, jumped into the ocean and swam the 20 kilometers to the old city.
“The people who couldn’t leave Dubrovnik went into the old city because they suspected that the Serbs would never attack it,” Ante continued, with sourness in his voice. “But over 2,000 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 ancient city, over stone streets that were laid centuries back, it was tough to picture the destruction. Only when we saw the Serbian TV footage did the reality sink in. Now, lovingly and accurately rebuilt, Dubrovnik is once more a fabulous illustration of medieval life. And families still live there, doing most of the same stuff they did way back. Only now, the Universal Teen can be found even here. While Ante gave us a personal history lesson, a group of young people walked noisily by, dressed pretty much the same as in the US, earbuds wired into their smartphones, laughing at us tourists.
“What’s the economy like now?” I asked Ante.
“Not so good,” he responded. “After the war, we had to reconstruct our industry, but lots of our people had sold their property and left to the U.S, to New Zealand, England and other places. Many homes were deserted. After ten years, things started to enhance because Europeans started to build homes here, start enterprises, and tourists returned. Then in 2008, the worldwide economic recession just put everything into reverse. Tourism is just beginning to improve. But we need alternative sources of industry.”
I was thinking about the population emigrating, making a guess that most of them would be younger folk, those who hadn’t started a family. Taking a look at the striking natural beauty of the Dalmatian coast, I could see it’s a place of great nourishment for the adult soul and really dull for kids.
Ante confirmed that this was indeed the case.
“Our youth aren’t staying in enough numbers to form our future growth,” he claimed. “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 lawyer and historian, working for a research institute in his home country of 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 supposed ethnic ‘cleansing ‘ was what the Serbians were after.”
Sam explained, “Well, actually , Serbs, Slovenians, Croats and Bosnians are ethnically identical. We share the same traditional roots returning to the time of the Illyrians who formed the 1st regional identity beyond little clans about three thousand 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 occurred, Catholicism under a Roman pope dominated the western empire, while the Eastern Orthodox Church was predominant in what came to be called the Byzantine Empire. The orthodox religion doesn’t 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 truly about non secular ‘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 larger nation,” Sam claimed. “But the area of Slovenia was the commercial powerhouse. We had a small fraction of the total population, but we were the source of 30 percent of Yugoslavia’s GDP. Croatia had the gorgeous coast and many beautiful islands where traditional villages still flourished. Croatia was the holiday maker mecca for Yugoslavians and many EU nations on either side of the Iron Curtain. Ever since Yugoslavia was first created after World War I, the Serbians, who were the most in number, wanted to exercise the best power over the course of the country. When Tito died, Serbian ambitions re-emerged, and their need to control the 2 richest 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 tragic if he knew that in the name of claiming sole rights to his bequest, jealous people would try to take away what others had out of envy and greed. Perhaps he does know as reported tagza.com.
Star Wars Ewok Gospel (featuring Billy Dee Williams)
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