Civil War, Yugoslavia

Christopher Morris

Black Star for TIME

There is never a war as painful as a civil one. This year one of the most painful in modern history ripped through Yugoslavia. The Republic of Croatia, thristy for independence, declared it but not without resistance from others. The resistance did not come with threatening words, but with hard military action from the ruling government of Yugoslavia, made up primarily of Serbian peoples. For centuries, Serbians and Croatians have clashed. Perhaps, due to their turbulant history, there erupted a civil war which has so far claimed the lives of 10,000 people. No compasion lingers in the battlefields of Croatia. Look to the city of Vukovar, pounded day and night by Serbian aircraft trying to dirve out occupying Croatians. The bodies are too many, the pain of death too great, for the survivors of this barbaric display of humanity to care. A son cries over his father's death at the funeral in Croatia. His father was a policeman killed in an Ambush.

Christopher Morris, "Civil War, Yugoslavia," in POYi Archive, Item #20370, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/20370 (accessed November 23, 2024).