It is as if war was waged here yesterday. Most of them are elderly people who have managed to secure a pension because it would be very difficult to survive on any other form of income the state is offering. Younger people have a hard time deciding to stay. They come, spend some time here and go back. There is no fear anymore.
Unemployment is high.
In the municipality of Sisak approximately 60 percent of the population is unemployed. And that isn't the only problem. Those whose houses were not destroyed or occupied are lucky indeed. The state still protects those who have occupied the houses of others, mostly Serbs. The majority of them are Bosnian Croats who have nowhere else to go.