Thursday 28711

another slow day, with slow internet, so i can preempt any excitement, this post will be concise and pictureless.

this is cut and paste from my notes

HDZ, croat party of Bosnia Herzegovina
Croatian Democratic Union
The party, unsurprisingly works toward the ends of the Croat people here, representing approx 27000 memebers, of the 500000 croats in the country.
The party was well connected with the bosnian croat army, and after the wars, they evolved from a movement, into a transparent political party.
They are upset with the disproportionate representation, Bosnia Herzegovina has 3 nations but only 2 entities, within one state.
And the election laws create issues for the appropriate representative to the presidency, in that a predominantly not croat party, elected the croat seat of presidency.
Because of the heavy presance of the international community, decisions are made by armchair politicians in brussels, DC etc, and it leds to a misrepresentative parliament.

this was a small party for the smallest majority ethnicity in Bosnia Herzegovina. yeah its complicated, but Croats are the smallest of the big three in the country, and the group we met with was one of the smaller of the Croat groups. the people we met with were representatives of the Youth party within the party, they had lots to say, and they definitely fit the whole nationalist basis by which parties operate, and also playing up the whole victimization thing. so that was an interesting day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDZ

now we are doing more lazy things, looking forward to Dubrovnik tomorrow