Stručni rad
ECOCIDE IN CROATIA
Mladen Martinis
; Institut "Rušer Bošković", Zagreb
Bogdan Sekulić
Andrija Želimir Lovrić
Sažetak
The war against Croatia is systematically destroying human, cultural and economic values of Croatia. Demographic resources in Croatia are affected by genocide - more than ten thousand people are killed or wounded, more than 500.000 refugees are left homeless. Post-war psychosomatic traumas affecting the immediate participants in the war and all other inhabitants might be expected. Thousands of houses, villages and more than 30 towns are destroyed (Vukovar, Vinkovci, Osijek, Dubrovnik and many others). Hundreds of sacral buildings, cultural monuments, archeological sites, libraries and art galleries are completely destroyed. Enormous economic and ecological damages are being done. Air, water and soil are affected by dangerous pollution and the most beautiful national parks are destroyed (Plitvice Lakes, Krka, Kopački rit - an ornithological reserve in Europe, Elaphite Islands near Dubrovnik, Trsteno Arboretum in the vicinity of Dubrovnik, Velebit, Biokovo, Konavli). The amount of various biotic agents causing various pathological effects in the human organism, zoosphere and biosphere (typhus, nephritis, hepatitis, enteritis, etc.) are increasing enormously. Various large-scale epidemies might be expected in Spring 1992!
This war against Croatia can be considered the first truly ecological war in history. The situation in Croatia is alarming and requires an urgent international intervention to stop the ecocide in Croatia and to prevent its global spreading.
Ključne riječi
ecological war; ecocide; destroyed monuments; eliminated endemics; forest fires; genocide; pollution
Hrčak ID:
137530
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.4.1992.
Posjeta: 1.527 *