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'My Friend Drojti Was Stationed At The Brook Tunnel That Connects To Our Hydroelectric Power Station When The Serbs Came Thru It,' Declared Our Host, Ante.
While the United States marks ten years after the attacks in NY that led on 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 on their own soil.
"My buddy Drojti was stationed at the brook tunnel that connects to our hydroelectric power station when the Serbs came through it," recounted our host, Ante. "He ran down the hill, leapt into the sea and swam the 20 kilometers to the old town.
"The people who couldn't leave Dubrovnik went into the old city because they believed 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 totally gutted by fire."
As Cheri and I walked through the ancient town, over stone streets that were laid centuries back, it was hard to fantasize the annihilation. Only when we saw the Serbian TV footage did the actuality sink in. Now, lovingly and accurately rebuilt, Dubrovnik is once again a superb representation of medieval life. And families still live there, doing the majority of similar things they did way back. Only now, the Universal Teen can be discovered even here. While Ante gave us a personal history lesson, a group of younger people walked noisily by, dressed pretty much the same as in the United States, earbuds plugged into their smartphones, giggling at us visitors.
"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 people had sold their property and left to the U.S, to New Zealand, England and other places. Many homes were abandoned. After ten years, things started to boost because Europeans started to build homes here, start enterprises, and visitors returned. Then in 2008, the worldwide economic recession just put everything into reverse. Tourism is just beginning to get better. But we need alternative sources of industry."
I was thinking about the population emigrating, guessing that a lot of them would be younger people, people who had not started a family. Looking at the stunning natural beauty 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 that this was indeed the case.
"Our youth are not staying in enough numbers to make 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 town on an island of the same name further north. Sam is a Slovenian, trained as a lawyer and historian, working for a research institute in his home country of about 3 million folks. We were fortunate to have such a credible source of info, 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 supposed ethnic 'cleansing ' was what the Serbians were after."
Sam explained, "Well, in fact Serbs, Slovenians, Croats and Bosnians are ethnically matching. We share identical ancient roots going back to the time of the Illyrians who formed the 1st regional identity beyond small tribes 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 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 representation of Jesus ' church, the clergymen 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 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 had been mostly equality across the bigger nation," Sam expounded. "But the region of Slovenia was the economic powerhouse. We had a small fraction of the total population, but we were the source of thirty p.c of Yugoslavia's gross domestic product. Croatia had the beautiful coast and many beautiful islands where ancient towns still thrived. Croatia was the holiday maker mecca for Yugoslavians and many Western european states on either side 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 greatest influence over the course of the country. When Tito died, Serbian ambitions re-emerged, and their wish to control the two 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 saying sole rights to his legacy, jealous people would try and take away what others had out of envy and greed. Perhaps he does know as reported tagza.com.