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‘My Friend Drojti Was Stationed At The River Tunnel That Connects To Our Hydroelectric Power Station When The Serbs Came Through It,’ Asserted Our Host, Ante.
While the U. S. marks 10 years after the attacks in NY that led on to 2 wars and fundamental changes in how American citizens view their security, Croatia solemnly recollects the 1991 incursion of Serbian troops and shelling of one of their most loved towns, Dubrovnik. That started a two year war on their lonesome 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, leapt into the sea and swam the twenty kilometers to the old city.
“The folk 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 two thousand shells struck the city, and 68 p.c of the buildings had damage, some completely gutted by fire.”
As Cheri and I walked thru the ancient city, over stone streets that were laid centuries back, it was tough to fantasize the elimination. Just when we saw the Serbian television pictures did the reality sink in. Now, lovingly and accurately rebuilt, Dubrovnik is once again a wonderful illustration of medieval life. And families still live there, doing most of the same things they did long ago. Only now, the Universal Teenager can be discovered even here. While Ante gave us a personal history lesson, a bunch of young people mooched noisily by, dressed pretty much the same as in the United States, earbuds wired into their smartphones, giggling at us travellers.
“What’s the economy like now?” I asked Ante.
“Not so good,” he answered. “After the war, we had to reconstruct our industry, but lots of our folk had sold their property and left to the U.S, to New Zealand, England and other places. Many homes were deserted. After 10 years, things started to enhance because Continentals began to build houses here, start businesses, and travellers returned. Then in 2008, the global 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 most of them would be younger folk, people who hadn’t started a family. Looking at the stunning natural beauty of the Dalmatian coast, I could see it’s a place of great nourishment for the adult soul and truly uninteresting for youngsters.
Ante confirmed 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 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 an attorney and historian, working for a research institute in his home country of approximately 3,000,000 folk. We were lucky to have such a convincing source of information, 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 actual fact Serbs, Slovenians, Croats and Bosnians are ethnically identical. We share similar traditional roots going back to the time of the Illyrians who formed the 1st regional identity beyond small clans about 3,000 years back. The conflict goes back to when the Roman Empire broke up and was divided between an eastern area and a western one. When that occurred, 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 faith doesn’t recognize the pope as the illustration of Jesus ‘ church, the priests 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 really 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 typically equality across the larger nation,” Sam expounded. “But the region of Slovenia was the commercial powerhouse. We had a tiny fraction of the total population, but we were the source of 30 p.c of Yugoslavia’s gross domestic product. Croatia had the beautiful coast and many pretty islands where traditional villages still prospered. Croatia was the traveller mecca for Yugoslavians and many European countries 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 two richest regions of the old Yugoslavia drove them to attack when Slovenia and Croatia declared 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 saying sole rights to his bequest, jealous folk would try to take away what others had out of envy and gluttony. Maybe he does know as reported tagza.com.
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