Wars Queen Amidala
‘My Friend Drojti Was Stationed At The River Tunnel That Connects To Our Hydroelectric Power Station When The Serbs Came Through It,’ Said Our Host, Ante.
While the United States 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 recalls the 1991 incursion of Serbian troops and shelling of one of their most loved cities, 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 through it,” said our host, Ante. “He ran down the hill, leaped into the ocean and swam the 20 kilometers to the old city.
“The folks who could not leave Dubrovnik went into the old town because they thought that the Serbs would never attack it,” Ante continued, with sourness in his voice. “But over two thousand shells struck the town, and 68 % 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 back, it was tough to picture the annihilation. Just when we saw the Serbian television photographs did the actuality sink in. Now, lovingly and meticulously rebuilt, Dubrovnik is once again a wonderful illustration 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 personal history lesson, a bunch of young people walked noisily by, dressed just about the same as in the U. S. , earbuds connected 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 reconstruct our industry, but plenty of our folks had sold their property and left to the U.S, to New Zealand, Britain and other places. Many houses were abandoned. After 10 years, things started to enhance because Continentals started to build homes here, start businesses, and visitors returned. Then in 2008, the world business 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, making a guess that a lot of them would be younger people, those who had not started a family. Looking 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 actually uninteresting for youngsters.
Ante confirmed that 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 aren’t many 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 folk. 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, actually , Serbs, Slovenians, Croats and Bosnians are ethnically matching. We share similar ancient roots going back to the time of the Illyrians who formed the first 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 paramount 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 different, among lots of other things. Slovenia and Croatia are on the west side of the dividing line. The Serbian aggression was truly about spiritual ‘cleansing, ‘ and of course, 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 area of Slovenia was the commercial powerhouse. We had a tiny fraction of the total population, but we were the source of thirty p.c of Yugoslavia’s GDP. Croatia had the attractive coast and many beautiful islands where ancient villages still prospered. Croatia was the tourist mecca for Yugoslavians and many European countries on both sides 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 wish to control the 2 richest areas of the old Yugoslavia drove them to invade when Slovenia and Croatia announced 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 claiming exclusive rights to his inheritance, jealous folks would try and take away what others had out of envy and gluttony. Perhaps he does know as reported tagza.com.
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