They or We?
“Once upon a time, in a faraway part of Europe ,behind seven mountains and seven rivers, there was a beautiful country called Yugoslavia. Its people belonged to six different nations, and they were of three different religions and spoke thre different languages. They were Croats,Serbs,Slovens,Macedonians,Montenegrins and Muslims yet they all work together ,went to school together, married each other ,and lived in relative harmony for forty-five years. But because it is not a fairy tale, the story of this beautiful country has no happy ending. Yugoslavia fell apart in a terrible and bloody war, a war that claimed some two hundred thousand lives – mostly in Bosnia – displaced two million people, and produced several new states : Slovania,Bosnia,Croatia,Serbia and Macedonia. Albanians and Montenegrins are still struggling for heir independence.” The Croatian author Slavenka Drakulic in her book , They would never hurt a fly , gave a befitting caption to this introduction : Not a fairy tal