“The Who”, (“Unscheduled Line”) deSlobodan Fireplace, is one of the great films and Yugoslav, while, the direct precursor of a great European film (and, clear, Yugoslavia also): “Underground”, the Bosnian (forgiveness, Serbian) Emir Kusturica.
A few days ago published an entry reflecting on the appropriateness of talking about the Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats, instead of talking about, simply, Bosnians / as and treat everyone equally.
The issue is far more complex than we summarize here, however I find it interesting to leave you with the testimony of Jovan Divjak, known to be a Serb general (Born in Belgrade), Bosnia-Herzegovina resident who led the defense of the city before the siege of the troops from their country of birth.
(c) www.pbs.org
On page PBS, American television channel, I found a great interactive map on distribution “ethnic” Bosnia-Herzegovina before the war to the present. And quotation marks “ethnic” because, to begin with, there are no ethnic (the, if there, should not be) but, also, because in the case of Bosnia Herzegovina (and the former Yugoslavia) the word is meaningless. The inhabitants of the former Yugoslavia are culturally (ethnically, as some) South Slavs, as the word (Yugoslav) mean. Apart from that, in the various encounters that were monotheistic in that territory the population was converted to Orthodox Christianity, to Catholic Christianity or Islam, to which must be added the arrival of Jews expelled from the Iberian Peninsula and the existence of unbelievers, Atheists and illuminated, as elsewhere.
