I'm an American more than a Croatian, most of that country has died in me I really dont think I could live there anymore regardlesss of economics or the beuty of our adriatic sea.
And I know it's our fault, we started it because the country went downhill econmoically when the loans ran out - the country was not econmically viable because of communism. Then we just turned from focusing on that to bashing each other because of supposed past injustices and voila 250,000 dead...
I dont like the UN because the only things they were really effective at and seemingly committed to 100% was an arms blokade which made it incredibly difficult for croats and bosnians to defendthemselves against the serb dominated JNA which was one of the larger ground armies in the world at the time and ivading and shelling our homes- my huse was almost blown up and took several mortar hits. The other was maintaining cease fire lines from i think 1992 to that summer of 1995 which guaranteed the serb armies 1/3 of croatia and 1/2 of bosnia through illegal conquest.
I'm just mad at the way the UN acted and the indecisive way they they went about it. Like it or not there was a principal bad guy, and i know you brits have an affinity for serbia like the germans have for croatia but even you have to admit the clear main agressor and warcriminal was serbia. The UN never allowed itsef to recognize this until far too late and only near the end of the war if ever.