1. I will illustrate this feeling of paranoia in Istria with an example, which I experienced shortly after my arrival in September 1998. Upon asking a woman if I could use her telephone to connect to the internet, she flatly refused. She explained that she believed the police were tapping her phone, and that their suspicions would be aroused if a foreigner connected to the internet. Though the vast majority of the population did not display such a heightened level of paranoia, this was illustrative of the insecurities of the population in a territory considered by many Croats as separatist and sometimes as an internal enemy. The instability of the economic situation on the peninsula combined with the crises in nearby Yugoslavia also contributed to the general unease.
2. Bugajski, op. cit ., p. 621, and Gojko Marinković, “Istria Defies Zagreb,” 4 July 1995, (accessed 19 September 2004); as well as many other sources.
3. Ibid., pp. 140–160.
4. Again, see Allcock's article for a discussion of this division.
5. Šetić, op. cit ., pp. 15–17.