My name is Zlatko, i was born in Banja Luka in the Paprikovac Hospital, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia in 1983, on October 10th.
I lived my entire childhood in a little town near Banja Luka called Kotor Varoš. Growing up, i had a fairly normal childhood and was loved by both of my parents and my extended family who lived there. As a child i had everything imaginable, in a town where most residents had VHF television, we had satellite. Where others had typewriters and pencils, my family had a ZX Spectrum, a Commodore 64 and a Commodore 128.
My life was very easy up until the early 90's. The war had not reached Bosnia until 1992 but up until then, being a child, i was not concerned or aware of the turmoils around me and as a result i didn't find it necessary to ask a lot of questions of my parents. If i had asked, im sure i would have gotten some generic response such as "dont worry about it".
In around mid 1992, shooting had started around my little town. The town was predominantly Catholic Croatians however I had never felt the presense of Croatians to notice that demographic. My mother being 1/2 Montenegrin and 1/2 Serbian, and my father being a Bosniak, the only thing i felt was my grandparent's atheism but slightly different first and last names.
In late 1992, early 1993 we had noticed camoflauged men walking around my town, no one knew who they were, but it seemed like the entire populace had just accepted it. I also remember being very scared when i saw a drunk soldier, or paramilitary brandishing his weapon around, and myself running away to tell the police, and them laughing in my face about it.
I am generally interested in the breakup of yugoslavia and how it all unfolded and came about. I am generally in the pursuit of eliminating red links on wikipedia when it comes to every person and article related to my former homeland.
I want everyone to be equally educated, and i try not to be biased at all, but as everyone from the balkans can atest to, it's difficult at times. I still consider myself to be a Yugoslav, and i dont think that will ever change. I think Tito had the right idea on a lot of things, but as a lot of SFRY-haters/critics point out, if the country was so great, it would not have fallen apart so easily.
I still believe that we will have Yugoslavia again, but certainly not in the same manner as we had from '43 to '91. If anything, i can see full integration into the European Union for all 6 republics, and the borders will fall yet again, making all the suffering and violence completely redundant, as it was from the begining.
I believe that the nationalists from the late 80s to present was one of the most devastating things that could have happened to the region in over 60 years, and i think that their time is almost up. People in every country are waking up and realizing just how many lies were told, and how many lives were lost so that others could line their pockets.
I am very interested in former yugoslav secret police, intelligence and military covert operations around the world. I also am very interested in the opening stages of the Yugoslav wars, and the political struggles of the late 80s between Ivan Stambolic, Slobodan Milosevic and any other key players. The later years of the wars do not interest me as much because the country that i love had already fallen fully apart by then. I dont condone most UDBA actions, with the exception of excecution and capture of former nazi-collaborating Ustasa fighters and commanders.
Me and my family moved to Canada, on December 24th, 1993 and we have been here ever since.
I try my best to upload images of anything and everything that is at my disposal, but as most people know, working on wikipedia articles can be a full-time job often, as it sure feels like one with me personally.
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