Wars Saga Legacy
‘My Friend Drojti Was Stationed At The Stream Tunnel That Connects To Our Hydroelectric Power Station When The Serbs Came Thru It,’ Asserted Our Host, Ante.
While the U. S. marks 10 years after the attacks in NY that led to 2 wars and elemental changes in how Northern Americans view their security, Croatia solemnly recalls the 1991 incursion of Serbian troops and shelling of one of their most adored cities, Dubrovnik. That started a two year war all alone soil.
“My buddy Drojti was stationed at the brook tunnel that connects to our hydroelectric power station when the Serbs came thru it,” recounted our host, Ante. “He ran down the hill, jumped into the ocean and swam the twenty kilometers to the old city.
“The folks who could not leave Dubrovnik went into the old town because they believed that the Serbs would never attack it,” Ante continued, with sourness in his voice. “But over 2,000 shells struck the town, and 68 p.c of the buildings had damage, some totally gutted by fire.”
As Cheri and I walked thru the traditional city, over stone streets that were laid centuries ago, it was tough to imagine the destruction. Just when we saw the Serbian television pictures did the actuality sink in. Now, lovingly and accurately rebuilt, Dubrovnik is once more a superb 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 private history lesson, a bunch of youngsters mooched noisily by, dressed pretty much the same as in the US, earbuds connected into their smartphones, giggling at us travellers.
“What’s the economy like now?” I asked Ante.
“Not so good,” he replied. “After the war, we had to rebuild our industry, but lots of our folks had sold their property and left to the U.S, to New Zealand, England and other places. Many houses were deserted. After ten years, things started to improve because Europeans began to build houses here, start businesses, and travellers returned. Then in 2008, the global industrial recession just put everything into reverse. Tourism is just starting to get better. But we need different sources of industry.”
I thought about the population emigrating, making a guess that most of them would be younger people, those who had not started a family. Looking at the striking natural sweetness of the Dalmatian coast, I could see it was a place of great nourishment for the adult soul and actually uninteresting for kids.
Ante confirmed this was indeed the case.
“Our youth are not staying in enough numbers to create our future growth,” he claimed. “Many of them are getting degrees in economics and business, but there aren’t many growing industries here to employ them.”
This same story was repeated by Samoj (he liked 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 an attorney and historian, working for a research institute in his home country of 3 million folks. We were fortunate 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, in fact Serbs, Slovenians, Croats and Bosnians are ethnically matching. We share similar traditional roots going back to the time of the Illyrians who formed the 1st regional identity beyond little clans about 3,000 years back. The conflict goes back to when the Roman Empire broke up and was split 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 primal in what came to be called the Byzantine Empire. The orthodox religion does not recognize the pope as the illustration of Jesus ‘ church, the monks can marry, and the sacraments are different, among plenty of other things. Slovenia and Croatia are on the west side of the dividing line. The Serbian aggression was actually 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 was often equality across the bigger nation,” Sam claimed. “But the area of Slovenia was the industrial powerhouse. We had a small fragment of the total population, but we were the source of thirty percent of Yugoslavia’s G. D. P. Croatia had the attractive coast and many pretty islands where traditional towns still prospered. Croatia was the tourist mecca for Yugoslavians and many Western european nations on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Ever since Yugoslavia was first created 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 occupy 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 saying exclusive rights to his inheritance, jealous folks would try and take away what others had out of envy and greed. Perhaps he does know as reported tagza.com.
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