(Fwd) Re: Old Bridge in Mostar is rebuilt

[Ivo Skoric]

apparently Marcus erased ethnic Yugoslavs in his census of Mostar 
population...
ivo
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At 11:44 18.4.2004 -0400, you wrote:

An important observation from the first article (by Marcus Tanner):
>"Pre-war Mostar was roughly 40 per cent Muslim, 40 per cent Croat and
>20 per cent Serb. This is wrong. The actual figures are different.
There were 34,8 percent Moslems, 33,8 percent Croats and 19 percent
Serbs. But the most important fact is that in Mostar 10 percent of 
the
population called themselves Yugoslavs, meaning, of course, they came
from the ethnically mixed marriages. In addition 2,4 percent of the
population were "others" meaning Montenegrins, Albanians, Macedonians
and others. Approyimately 20 percent of the marriages in Mostar were
between the partners of different ethnic background. This was ruined
by war and ethnic cleansning that was launched first by Serbs, and
then in 1992 by Croats. Now there is no way to establish what 
happened
with all those "Yugoslavs" who are today forced to call themselves
Moslems, Croats or Serbs.

                                   Zarko 
Modric



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