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While The United States Marks Ten Years After The Attacks In NY That Led Straight 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 N. Y that led to 2 wars and elemental changes in how Northern Americans view their security, Croatia solemnly remembers the 1991 incursion of Serbian troops and shelling of one of their most adored towns, Dubrovnik. That started a two-year war on their own soil.
"My friend 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 sea and swam the 20 kilometers to the old town.
"The folk who could not leave Dubrovnik went into the old city because they suspected the Serbs would never attack it," Ante continued, with sourness in his voice. "But over two thousand shells struck the city, and 68 percent of the buildings had damage, some totally gutted by fire."
As Cheri and I walked thru the ancient town, over stone streets that were laid centuries gone, it was hard to picture the annihilation. Just when we saw the Serbian TV pictures did the reality sink in. Now, lovingly and accurately reconstructed, Dubrovnik is once again a superb illustration of medieval life. And families still live there, doing most of similar things they did way back. Only now, the Universal Teenager can be found even here. While Ante gave us a personal history lesson, a grouping of youngsters mooched noisily by, dressed just about the same as in the U. S. , 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 reconstruct our industry, but lots of our folk 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 began to build homes here, start companies, and travellers returned. Then in 2008, the world economic recession just put everything into reverse. Tourism is just beginning to get better. But we need other sources of industry."
I thought about the population emigrating, making a guess that most of them would be younger folks, people who had not started a family. Having a look at the shocking natural sweetness of the Dalmatian coast, I could see it's a place of great nourishment for the adult soul and really uninteresting for kids.
Ante confirmed 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 employ 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 town 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 about 3,000,000 folk. We were fortunate to have such a credible 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, actually , Serbs, Slovenians, Croats and Bosnians are ethnically matching. We share identical traditional roots returning to the time of the Illyrians who formed the first regional identity beyond tiny tribes about three thousand years ago. 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 ruled the western empire, while the Eastern Orthodox Church was primal in what came to be called the Byzantine Empire. The orthodox faith does not recognize the pope as the illustration of Jesus ' church, the monks can marry, and the sacraments are dissimilar, among plenty of other things. Slovenia and Croatia are on the west side of the dividing line. The Serbian aggression was really about religious '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 often equality across the bigger nation," Sam said. "But the region of Slovenia was the industrial powerhouse. We had a little fragment of the total population, but we were the source of 30 percent of Yugoslavia's gross domestic product. Croatia had the gorgeous coast and many picturesque islands where traditional towns still thrived. Croatia was the traveller mecca for Yugoslavians and many Western european countries 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, needed to exercise the best influence over the course of the country. When Tito died, Serbian ambitions re-emerged, and their need to control the 2 wealthiest regions 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 sad if he knew that in the name of claiming sole rights to his inheritance, envious folk would try to take away what others had out of envy and greed. Maybe he does know as reported tagza.com.