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While The US Marks Ten Years After The Attacks In N. Y That Led Straight To Two Wars And Elemental Changes In How 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 United States marks 10 years after the attacks in New York that led straight to two wars and elemental changes in how American citizens 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 lonesome soil.
“My friend Drojti was stationed at the stream 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 sea and swam the 20 kilometers to the old city.
“The people who couldn’t leave Dubrovnik went into the old city because they thought 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 completely gutted by fire.”
As Cheri and I walked through the ancient city, over stone streets that were laid centuries ago, it was tough to imagine the elimination. Just when we saw the Serbian TV pictures did the actuality sink in. Now, lovingly and meticulously reconstructed, Dubrovnik is once again a superb illustration of medieval life. And families still live there, doing the majority of similar things they did long ago. Only now, the Universal Teen can be discovered even here. While Ante gave us an individual history lesson, a bunch of youngsters strolled noisily by, dressed just about the same as in the US, earbuds plugged into their smartphones, giggling at us tourists.
“What’s the economy like now?” I asked Ante.
“Not so good,” he answered. “After the war, we had to reconstruct our industry, but many 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 improve because Continentals began to build houses here, start enterprises, and tourists returned. Then in 2008, the world economic recession just put everything into reverse. Tourism is just starting to get better. But we need alternative sources of industry.”
I was thinking about the population emigrating, making a guess that a lot of them would be younger people, those who hadn’t started a family. Taking a look at the striking natural wonder of the Dalmatian coast, I could see it had been a place of great nourishment for the adult soul and truly boring for youngsters.
Ante confirmed this was indeed the case.
“Our youth aren’t staying in enough numbers to form our future growth,” he said. “Many of them are getting degrees in economics and business, but there are few growing industries here to employ them.”
This same story was repeated by Samoj (he loved to be called “Sam”), a man 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 3,000,000 folks. 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 the same traditional roots returning to the time of the Illyrians who formed the 1st regional identity beyond little tribes about three thousand years back. The conflict goes back to when the Roman Empire split up and was split between an eastern area and a western one. When that happened, Catholicism under a Roman pope dominated the western empire, while the Eastern Orthodox Church was primal in what came to be called the Byzantine Empire. The orthodox religion doesn’t recognize the pope as the illustration of Jesus ‘ church, the monks 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 actually 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 mostly equality across the bigger nation,” Sam claimed. “But the region of Slovenia was the economic powerhouse. We had a small fragment of the total population, but we were the source of 30 % of Yugoslavia’s G. D. P. Croatia had the beautiful coast and many beautiful islands where traditional towns still thrived. Croatia was the holiday maker mecca for Yugoslavians and many EU 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, wanted to exercise the greatest power over the course of the country. When Tito died, Serbian ambitions re-emerged, and their desire to control the 2 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 tragic if he knew that in the name of claiming exclusive rights to his inheritance, jealous people would try to take away what others had out of envy and greediness. Perhaps he does know as reported tagza.com.
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