Wars Leia
While The United States Marks Ten Years After The Attacks In New York That Led On To 2 Wars And Elemental Changes In How North Americans View Their Security, Croatia Solemnly Remembers The 1991 Incursion Of Serbian Troops And Shelling Of One Of Their Most Beloved Cities, Dubrovnik.
While the U. S. marks 10 years after the attacks in NY that led straight to two wars and fundamental changes in how Americans view their security, Croatia solemnly recalls the 1991 incursion of Serbian troops and shelling of one of their most beloved towns, Dubrovnik. That started a two year war on their own soil.
“My buddy Drojti was stationed at the stream tunnel that connects to our hydroelectric power station when the Serbs came thru it,” announced our host, Ante. “He ran down the hill, jumped into the ocean and swam the twenty kilometers to the old city.
“The folk who could not leave Dubrovnik went into the old city because they thought that the Serbs would never attack it,” Ante continued, with resentment in his voice. “But over two thousand shells struck the city, and 68 % of the buildings had damage, some completely gutted by fire.”
As Cheri and I walked thru the traditional city, over stone streets that were laid centuries ago, it was hard to picture the annihilation. Only when we saw the Serbian TV photographs did the reality sink in. Now, lovingly and meticulously rebuilt, Dubrovnik is once again a superb representation of medieval life. And families still live there, doing the majority of the same things they did long ago. Only now, the Universal Teenager can be found even here. While Ante gave us a private history lesson, a grouping of youngsters strolled noisily by, dressed pretty much the same as in the US, earbuds connected into their smartphones, laughing 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 many of our folk had sold their property and left to the U.S, to New Zealand, England and other places. Many houses were abandoned. After 10 years, things started to improve because Continentals began to build homes here, start businesses, and visitors returned. Then in 2008, the world industrial recession just put everything into reverse. Tourism is just beginning to get better. But we need other sources of industry.”
I was thinking about the population emigrating, guessing that a lot of them would be younger people, those who hadn’t started a family. Taking a look at the shocking natural sweetness of the Dalmatian coast, I could see it was a place of great nourishment for the adult soul and actually dull for youngsters.
Ante confirmed that this was indeed the case.
“Our youth aren’t staying in enough numbers to create our future growth,” he said. “Many of them are getting degrees in economics and business, but there are just a few growing industries here to employ 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 city 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 3,000,000 people. 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 the same ancient roots going back to the time of the Illyrians who formed the 1st regional identity beyond small clans 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 happened, Catholicism under a Roman pope ruled the western empire, while the Eastern Orthodox Church was primal in what came to be called the Byzantine Empire. The orthodox religion doesn’t recognise the pope as the representation of Jesus ‘ church, the priests can marry, and the sacraments are different, among lots of other things. Slovenia and Croatia are on the west side of the dividing line. The Serbian aggression was actually about non secular ‘cleansing, ‘ and, 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 bigger nation,” Sam claimed. “But the region of Slovenia was the industrial powerhouse. We had a little fragment of the total population, but we were the source of thirty p.c of Yugoslavia’s G. D. P. Croatia had the gorgeous coast and many picturesque islands where ancient villages still prospered. Croatia was the holiday maker mecca for Yugoslavians and many European nations on either side of the Iron Curtain. Ever since Yugoslavia was first made after World War I, the Serbians, who were the most in number, needed to exercise the best influence over the course of the country. When Tito died, Serbian ambitions re-emerged, and their wish to control the 2 richest regions of the old Yugoslavia drove them to occupy when Slovenia and Croatia declared 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 saying sole rights to his inheritance, jealous folk would try to take away what others had out of envy and greediness. Maybe he does know as reported tagza.com.
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