burning

[Ivo Skoric]

Let's just consider what really happened there. After about five or 
more years of relative truce, or, rather an internationally policed 
cease-fire, suddenly, in a less than a week, as a reaction to a, for 
the region, relatively minor provocation, with an unholly velocity, 
half a dozen religious objects got burned and demolished in three (3) 
separately ruled statelets that emerged from what used to be 
Yugoslavia. The most stunning element in this event is the chain 
recation, the speed at which it spread through the region. It is as 
if everywhere in the region there still are people that just don't do 
any better but to hate the others and to act violently upon their 
hate. Just waiting for the signal to gather up and do something bad. 
It is also evidence of procrastination on the side of the 
international community first to effectively de-militarize the 
region, and second to address the issues that stood at roots of 
nationalism, chauvinism, hate, and "ethnic cleansing." International 
community left too many questions unanswered, failed to collect guns 
from warring factions, and never initiated reconciliation efforts 
and/or introduced non-violent conflict resolution methods. While this 
would explain the probability of such an event happening, it would 
still be hard to believe that it happened in 3 states in a row 
spontaneously.
ivo