Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 63 No. 3-4, 1993.
Kratko priopćenje
History as a Space. Genocide and migrations of people
Damir Zorić
Sažetak
The author explains in the paper his basic idea that the cause, consequence and aim of the aggressive war of Serbia against Croatia are identical and emerge out of Serbian conception of history. Conception of the history as of a space neccessarily leads to conquest, genocide, ethnic cleansing and expelling of all those who do not belong to such a concept. In this search for conquest perhaps the decisive role plays the conquering nature of the orthodox missionary. (The example of the conquest of Siberia by Russia.) The orthodox church is an essential part of the orthodox state, being percieved as the celestial state and as such stately owned and governed. Among the orthodox also different primitive beliefs which link together the heavenly concept of the victim and the teritorial confines of the state are preserved, like for instance: there where our tomb is, our state is too. The realisation of such a statehood concept is not possible in coegzistence with another statehood concept if they andeavour and try to protect their own identity. Aggresive war from one side and defencive from another is unavidable. To destroy historical princip and to establish new one, teritorial princip - that is the aim of aggression. To realised that the aggressor have not only to kill or expel the people but to destroy the traces of their culture and to bum their land. In the such aggression a certain mechanism of crimes is neccessary to be applied, which is described and explained by the author in four essential phases: compression (taking over), depression (torturing), expansion (expulsion) and restauration (establtshment of new order). For possible explanation of such mechanism of crimes author cites a sequence of ethnopsychological elements out of ethno context of the aggressor: brutality and murders in astonishing quantities in the folk heroic codex of the aggressor. For the seemengly incredible velocity by which such a large number of people suddenly out of peace engages in brutal killing of their closest neibourghs, the author offers as explanation a still unexplored fact from ethno-psychology of the cattle-raising balcanic people; the sheppards live in idillyc pastorale with their flock and then simply slaughter it. A cattle-raising tribe is forced to conquer new space as opposed to agricultural people (like are the majority of Croats) which perceive their land not only as the basis for their production, but also as a way of life, and, what is especially important, as a part of their historical identity and not vice versa.
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35664
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Datum izdavanja:
18.4.1994.
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