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Beware the Balkans!

2024-08-21 16:41:24Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA ALADIN STAFA
Beware the Balkans!
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If we have to take a look at Europe to find a land almost burning with nationalistic spirit, unjust dividing borders or even unbridled pride, the Balkans will continue to remain as it has been for centuries the model we are looking for.

Contrary to what nature has reserved for this small corner of the continent, man and his geo-political games have done the opposite. The shadows of the past seem to have left their mark on this region, holding back development and a future that, unlike the rest of Europe, is destined to wait for decades until generations become aware and realize that the only way forward it is the overcoming of grudges with the neighbor and obviously cooperation with him.

But can this be possible with a population not strongly seasoned by clarity of thought or coldness in judgment?

There is no doubt that the occasional genocides, inter-ethnic hatreds or the occupation of territories, these violent events that the Balkans have experienced, can be easily erased from the collective memory. This is also the reason why reducing the tension with the 'enemy', our insatiable neighbor, is always another challenge.

All this ordeal of problems began at the so-called Peace Conference in London, held in 1912. An event that, a century or so later, not only did not bring peace, but on the contrary ignited bloody wars, the scars of which still remain today. closed.

The most absurd picture appears in the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, a territory where three different ethnic groups live despite the fact that they are all Slavs. Their only difference is that of religion, as if to show us that religion has been and will remain the main cause of many wars, unlike what it preaches.

In the early 1990s, after the separation from the former Republic of Yugoslavia, the three main ethnic groups in this territory, Bosnia-Herzegovina, were strangely separated. They are: Muslims who hold the autochthonous title, Croats, who make up the third most populous group after Bosniaks and Serbs, and Serbs or those who live in a territory called Republika Srpska.

We know that these three ethnic groups fought for almost three consecutive years from 1992-1995, a war between them that turned into an international conflict and was called the Bosnian War. A massacre that left behind more than 100 thousand dead, giving us once again the model that the war within the dog species and the biggest war that can exist.

Time passes. The wounds even heal to some extent, but it is felt in the conversations of friends that finding a common language between the ethnic groups is difficult to see. Contrary to what we read politically, emotions are not forgotten.

And perhaps this is the reason why the country is still represented by three different heads, representing three different cultures in three different capitals; such as Sarajevo, Mostar and Banja Luka.

It's comical and sad at the same time how traveling in these territories resembles entering and exiting from one country to another, with provinces scattered irregularly and people struggling to overcome the emotional turmoil brought about by this religious divide between them, the precarious state of economic advantage and the spiritual crisis of whose identity they belong to and perhaps the ignorance of how to present themselves.

Their desire, obviously, which they do not say out loud, is independence for every ethnic group, but this is still not easy. Considered as a 'Pandora's box', this issue would bring as many problems for the Balkans as any other conflict around. And which we know well. 

Conflicts that would suspend our integration process, of the region as a whole, constantly risking their ignition, easily but to be created again.

Just as over the centuries the Great Powers were the key factor for the fate of many countries, in the Balkans the consequences of their decisions left behind grudges and blood, instability and conflicts.

The Balkans remained the region determined not to have peace, and yet lucky that there are still dear people who, beyond the suffering that politics brings, survive the life of nature and the climate that it offers.

And while time is running out, with issues still open between them, the Balkan peoples such as Albanians, Greeks or Slavs seem to be waiting for another conference or summit. This time with the hope that the future gives you. So that they can build their own destinies.


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