That's what I heard. I have some family in Dalmatia (Croatia) and they mentioned the recovery is still an ongoing process that will last for many more decades. The thing that bothers me, especially about today's Bosnia (which I've studied through my job) is that the standards are not only low, they aren't changing. They're not doing much to change. The economy level is not only low, it's almost non-existant. The money goes into building shopping malls. Do you really need 9 malls in a small town like Tuzla? Where are the factories this country so desperately needs? What about education? The cost of it is more than good and the education itself seems to be a bit on the strict side but where in the world is it accepted? If you finish a Uni in Bosnia and move to the US or Canada it'll hardly mean anything. You'll have to do a whole lot of post studies to even qualify to work in your field no matter how good you are. My point is, not much is being done to change this. I understand it's still a bit early. A decade after the war ended. The country is still recovering. The emotional and nostalgic wounds are still fresh and it'll take years (if ever) for the Serbs to feel comfortable around Bosnians or Croatians. I have a friend from Serbia. Her parents can't stand my guts ever since they found out I'm half Catholic, half Jewish (born on January 7th none less! Which is the Orthodox Church (Serbians, Greeks, etc) Christmas). Before they knew this they loved me. The attitude completely changed and questions arised what my parents do, where they're from, if anyone in my family was a Nazi (being part German and all). Once again my point is, there's so much tension in that culture and not much has changed. The wounds seem to be fresh. I don't know how it is there to live now. But I'd like to hear some positive change in the economy or politics. I'd at least like them to be part of the Euro Union in the next decade or so.
Jalovica, govno jedno srpsko!!!! Vi Srbi ste svi isti!! Pa kako mozete nakon svih ubojstava nad civilnim zrtvama koje ste prouzrocili u bosni i hrvatskoj, dalje se hvaliti i pretenciozno napadati svakog bosnjaka ili hrvata na kojeg naidete?? Iako je cijeli svijet shvatio TKO JE ZAPOCEO rat i sto ste radili u njemu, vi se jos pravite slijepi nad vlastitim zlocinima i hvalite zlocince poput Draze Mihalovica, Milosevica, Karadica ili sto je najgore Srebrenicu..... 8000 ljudi....5 dana....
Zar je to potrebno? Govoris kako su Hrvati ili Bosnjaci zrtve i kako ih Srbi tuze a ti radis isto. Ima bolji nacin da se to sve kaze bez da uvredjujes druge. Sta je Milosevic, Karadzic i ostali koji su ih podrzavali uradili tokom rata je uzasno ali ne treba generalizirati. To je proslost, zasto ne pokusas da se koncentrises na buducnost?
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yxy
18 years ago
Read this book and you'll know all the involvment ov US in teh balkans and the *beep* they did.
The Rational Destruction of Yugoslavia, by Micheal Parenti
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LaFemmeUtopique
18 years ago
I've read that book a few months ago. It's not exactly my favorite or something I chose to blindly believe in. However, I do believe what the US of A does in foreign countries in war or need is sometimes unconventional and even cruel. It's not exactly news to me to find out about their dirty wrongdoings over there. Even the action of the United Nations can't all be justified and I don't support all of what they did. But speaking from my own point of view after reading document by document filled with orders and how they were processed I personally think they did (most of the time) all they could in their power. I have to add I disagree with many of the things they did though back in the day and I wasn't their biggest supporter exactly. I also don't put the UN in the same bin as the USA and their army. Yes, they're from the same country but its goals are completely different.
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