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In Michigan,

a top secret air force base embroiled in controversy...

It's possible there was some form of cover-up.

The official documentation does have some redacted sections.

..in Italy,

an entrepreneur's dream shattered by links to organised crime.

Was he guilty or was this just a huge miscarriage of justice?

..a Croatian compound drawn into a devastating conflict.

A foreign force landed on these shores

but it was not an invasion force.

It was a peacekeeping force.

..and a California transportation hub that inspired lasting change.

Oakland has always had a secret sauce

and people fighting for greater justice and a better way to live.

In northern Michigan, on the edge of Lake Superior,

remnants of a global conflict conceal a tale of intrigue.

A dirt track leads to a clearing

dotted with large industrial-looking buildings.

This is a site built for function not beauty.

On the edge of this place

there are what look like just normal suburban streets.

There's a basketball court

and a baseball field

and what looks like the remains of a bowling alley.

This has all the amenities of any small town

uh, but why are they out here?

Uh, there's only 2,000 permanent residents in this entire area

and so, to have this little city just up here on the top of a mountain

popping out of nowhere

is just very unusual.

But this was not a normal town.

When constructed, this was a covert facility with one objective,

to protect America.

At the top of the hill,

two large constructions stand out.

This is a clue to the place's true function.

The US Air Force is using this technology

to defend the country from what they thought

was a real existential threat.

Yet, this site became infamous

because of its connection to an alleged government cover-up

that involved the disappearance of two American aviators.

The jet and its occupants vanished

and the mystery has never been solved.

So, I first visited this site about ten years ago

with my cousin

and we made kind of the joke that everybody makes.

If we ever had the opportunity to purchase this,

then we had to try and purchase it.

Come on, Radar.

In 2021,

Zachary Garner did buy this property.

He's been working hard to uncover its secrets ever since.

We wanted to save it, preserve the history,

tell the story.

This place and most of the others like it

were always surrounded with a...an air of mystery

because everything that happened up here was classified,

uh, during the...the times when it was active.

There was a good reason the site was clandestine.

This place was built as a reaction

to the rising threat of communist activity.

On August 29 1949

in the very early part of the Cold War,

the Soviet Union detonated their first atomic bomb,

code name, Joe-1.

Even more terrifying news was to follow,

The Soviets also created long-range aircraft

capable of delivering nuclear bombs to the United States.

This new reality caught the United States

off guard,

They were unprepared and they were nervous.

If America was to regain the upper hand,

it needed a system that provided an early warning

of any incoming attacks from the Soviet Union.

The United States takes action by setting up radar stations

all across the country.

Calumet Air Force Station was part of this radar network.

So, they built a lot of these stations further north

in the US and Canada because they were specifically monitoring

for bombers coming over the Arctic Circle from the Soviet Union,

That was the quickest or shortest flight path

from primarily two Soviet air force bases.

Should a Soviet aircraft approach,

Calumet would be able to detect it

and help guide American fighters to intercept and destroy it.

Uh, this station in particular was right in the flight path,

if they would have sent bombers to either Chicago or New York.

By April of 1951,

Calumet was fully operational.

Less than two years later, it was called into action.

On the evening of November 23rd 1953,

the radar operators here noticed

a flight that was coming through Lake Superior

that was not registered on any particular flight plan.

If this was a Soviet bomber,

they needed to act fast.

The operators noted the coordinates

and sent them to Kinross Air Force Base

located 190 miles southeast of Calumet.

From there, an F89 Scorpion jet was immediately scrambled to intercept.

First Lieutenant Felix Moncla,

an airman who'd clocked up 811 flying hours,

took the pilot seat.

Behind him was the navigator,

Second Lieutenant Robert Wilson.

On that day, the weather

was pretty typical for late November. It was cold,

low visibility, cloudy, of course, dark.

Operators at Calumet were tracking the object

and then sending directions to navigator Robert Wilson.

For the next 30 minutes,

a high-speed game of cat and mouse

played out in the skies above Lake Superior.

Every time the radar would spin around,

they would get an updated location on the bogey

and tell them a new heading.

But reports claim that the unidentified object

moved in strange ways that shouldn't have been possible.

The blip was changing course, changing air speed,

changing altitude

and they just weren't sure what it was.

At 6.52pm, the operators let the crew know that

the object was at their 11 o'clock, ten miles out.

The two men would have, by now, had the unknown object in their sights.

At 6.55pm, the radar signature of the Scorpion jet

converged with that of the unknown object,

forming a single dot on the radar screen.

They assumed that the fighter jet was flying in formation with the bogey

and making contact with the pilot.

Then, the unthinkable happened.

When radio operators tried to hail Moncla

they heard nothing back.

Then, the jet's transponder signal was lost

and its radar signature disappeared from their screens.

The staff at Calumet urgently tried to reestablish contact

with the missing Scorpion jet

but to no avail.

The Scorpion jet had vanished.

According to the official reports from the Air Force,

the dot of the aircraft that was still in the air

continued on its original flight path, flying east.

In the following days,

a number of aircraft joined the search from all over the country

but no trace of the plane or the two airmen was ever found.

During this period,

the American public had become increasingly fascinated

by the phenomena of UFOs

after a number of high-profile sightings across the country.

The incident quickly became a source of various conspiracy theories.

Many of the most extraordinary revolved around alien abduction.

The conspiracy that has formed from "the blips merged,"

is that the UFO ate the aircraft

or absorbed it

and that's why it was never seen or heard from again.

The Air Force put forward a very different explanation.

When they looked on the screen

and saw those two blips merge,

that simply meant that they were within half a mile of one another,

not that they actually ran into each other.

And while no conclusive evidence has ever been found

to explain the aircraft's disappearance

the most plausible theory is some type of mechanical failure.

The F89 Scorpion had known issues.

Just a year before,

all F89's had been grounded to fix a wing problem.

Yet, the respected UFO researcher, Major Donald Keyhoe,

believed the government was trying to hide the truth.

He claimed that Felix Moncla's wife

was given two conflicting stories by the US Air Force

about how her husband died.

At first, she was told that his jet had crashed into Lake Superior.

Then, she was told it had exploded in midair.

Keyhoe also suggested certain details

were left out of the official record to cover it up.

The official documentation does have some redacted sections

that we've been unable to figure out what it says.

But ultimately, the puzzle was never solved.

My personal opinion

is that the fighter jet,

uh, got too close to the other aircraft during intercept,

made some manoeuvre to avoid hitting it,

and crashed into Lake Superior.

But this all still leaves a crucial question unanswered,

which is what was that original radar signature

that the Calumet station detected?

A Canadian aircraft was flying a similar flight path that evening

but it reported no interceptions and not having seen the Scorpion jet.

It remains a mysterious footnote to the Cold War

which claimed the lives of two American airmen.

Calumet continued to operate in secrecy for the next 35 years

until the Soviet bloc collapsed

and the threat of nuclear war subsided.

In September 1988,

the station was closed

and the remaining personnel were transferred elsewhere.

Zachary now has big plans to open Calumet to the public

so its story can continue to be told.

The entire top of the mountain here that we're standing on now

will be turned into a museum dedicated to radar stations

and the Cold War.

We're doing as much of the work as we can ourselves.

We're seeking help where we need it

but we expect this to be kind of a lifetime project

and we're here for it. It's really exciting.

In Central Italy,

40 miles from Florence

is the site of a fallen stronghold

besieged by personal tragedy.

We are in the foothills of Tuscany,

famous for its glorious countryside,

incredible wines and centuries-old towns.

So, it's no great surprise when you come across what appear to be

ancient remains concealed in dense forest.

The structure has thick stone walls,

a crenulated tower and a drawbridge,

all the hallmarks of a medieval castle.

But look closer and you start to see problems with that theory.

All around are clues that suggest not everything is what it seems.

Some of the features are more recent, uh,

like, there's a gazebo with a plastic canvas roof.

Inside, it gets even stranger.

There are bars,

stages

and even the artwork appears as if made to look old.

All sorts of people used to come here from all over Italy,

VIPs, celebrities, politicians

and it was a great success.

But the question is,

who killed the party?

This place would be engulfed by scandal.

We're talking links to organised crime,

a wrongful arrest and lives torn apart.

The last time I came here, it was about ten years ago

and now the building,

everything is completely covered with trees and plants.

It looks so strange and even sad.

For many years, I avoided to come back here

because of the memories.

When Daisy Vannelli was young,

this enchanted setting was her family's business

and it played a very important role in her life.

I remember my childhood here

with my sister and my brothers.

When we were younger, it was like our playground.

The construction was inspired by my father's passion for castles.

Like many good stories,

this one begins with an ambitious vision

to build something magical

and the person behind everything we see here,

a man named Walter Vannelli.

So, Walter is a local entrepreneur

and back in the '80s

he had this idea that he wanted to create

a beautiful hotel in the mountains.

But then, my father came up with the idea of opening a nightclub.

He discussed this idea with my two brothers

who were in their 20s at that time

and who enthusiastically opted for the nightclub idea.

One reason might have been because part of their job

was to party at Italy's top clubs for inspiration.

It wasn't long before the, uh,

the wacky concept that we see today emerged.

Walter funded the project using his own money,

that of investors

and by borrowing around £500,000 from the bank.

In 1987, construction began.

But bringing his dream to life proved to be a difficult task.

Walter changed his mind constantly about what it should look like.

One day he'd ask the builders to build something,

then the next day knock it down, start over again from scratch.

Honestly, we all thought we'd never get the club finished...

..but finally, we did it.

In the end, the club had three dance floors,

two restaurants, four bars.

It took six years

and cost around $5 million.

The Vannelli's called their labour of love

the Excalibur.

On the 23rd of December 1993,

it opened for business.

And on that night, there were 3,000 people.

Up there was the DJ booth.

I remember flag bearers, fire-eaters, fireworks,

yes, champagne,

a lot of drinking, a lot of dancing,

a lot of fun,

everything that made it a night to remember.

As the months passed,

the club's reputation continued to grow.

There were politicians,

celebrities,

soccer players

and even royalty

the form of Princess Stephanie of Monaco,

the rebellious youngest daughter of Grace Kelly.

During the week, you'd have lectures,

fashion shows and concerts

and then four nights a week,

you could come and dance the night away.

Everything was looking really good.

We were making good money and everything was just perfect.

What could possibly go wrong?

The answer

was, "Everything."

In July 1996,

around 5am

a police helicopter swooped in

and landed next to the club.

Armed officers streamed out

and raided the house that Walter was living in.

He was handcuffed,

hooded and taken to a high-security prison.

Walter had no idea why he'd been arrested.

But it turns out, he was being accused of being a key player

in the Brenta mafia.

The Brenta mafia was a ruthless organisation,

founded by career criminal, Felice Maniero.

His illicit empire made millions,

uh, from, you know, drug trafficking, extortion,

money laundering.

But in 1994,

his criminal dealings caught up with him

after a crackdown on mafia gangs.

He was arrested and became an informant

to save his own skin.

He gave up over 400 mob bosses,

uh, corrupt judges, corrupt policemen

and he named Walter as part of the operation.

Walter had met Maniero 20 years earlier

but this was long before the mafia boss had founded his criminal enterprise.

Since then, they'd had no further dealings

and Walter was given no explanation about why he had been implicated.

Prosecutors insisted he be kept in isolation

and refused to tell him when a trial date would be set.

Walter chose to take matters into his own hands.

He remained in prison without being interrogated.

My father had to go on a hunger strike

because they gave him no possibility to tell his side of the story

and so he had to do that in order to be heard.

Only then did the authorities start to listen.

After this, the anti-mafia prosecutor, Dr Fojadelli,

conducted more investigations and interviewed people

from the mafia clan.

His findings eventually found that Walter had no mafia involvement

and he was cleared of all charges completely.

In June 1997,

after almost a year in prison,

Walter was finally released.

The reason Maniero originally named him remained a mystery.

But he always kept his dignity

and he always maintained a positive attitude, really.

He's an incredible person for this.

It was a terrible miscarriage of justice

but there was even worse news to come.

Following Walter's arrest,

local newspapers and TV stations had relentlessly covered the story.

They linked his suspected mob connections to the Excalibur...

..which inevitably led to a significant drop in attendances.

This, coupled with a landslide

that blocked the main road leading to the club,

signalled its demise.

And so,

from the 2,500 people crowding the nights,

the attendance dropped to only a few hundred.

In July 1996,

while Walter was still locked up

the Excalibur was forced to close.

The closure was a huge shock.

Excalibur was completely created, built and managed by our family.

Today, the future of the Excalibur is...is uncertain.

It's up for sale. So, perhaps one day

the hills surrounding this medieval discotheque

will once again be alive with the sound of music.

I'd love to see it getting back to its original glory.

It will be so nice to see it full of people

having fun and dancing.

In Oakland, California

is a faded relic that fostered a movement

whose impact is still felt to this day.

This area has an industrial feel to it.

There are freeways,

rail lines

and an active port.

Then, on the edge of a pretty residential neighbourhood,

you see this building unlike the rest.

It's majestic and imposing

with these three huge arched windows.

Once you get inside, you've got light flooding in,

illuminating the marble floors.

You've got ornate plasterwork

and then, in other parts of the structure,

there's a more utilitarian space.

Yet the interior reveals little about this building's original purpose.

The big giveaway is out back.

You see this set of railroad tracks heading out of the structure.

So, clearly it's a railroad station.

This grand site was built at a time when Oakland was a city on the rise.

The people that worked here

were viewed as very important people in the community.

That's because they did so much more than just keep the wheels turning.

Their actions helped bring real change to America.

This place is related to the civil rights struggle,

particularly on the West Coast,

because so much of the organising happened here.

Their battle would inspire leaders for generations to come.

I am a third generation West Oakland resident.

So, I've got deep, deep roots in this community

and I'm incredibly proud of it.

David Peters is the founder of the Black Liberation Walking Tour.

This long-forgotten station is an important stop on his route.

What a sense of awe and wonder I'm feeling right now

to be able to be in this place that has so much history.

You know, many people think that the resistance movement in Oakland

started with the Black Panthers and there's a reason for that,

but they didn't just spring out of nowhere

and this place is integral to that.

I can feel goosebumps on my arms right now as I talk about it.

The story of struggle that unfolded within these walls

all began with a marvel of American engineering.

Originally, Oakland was just a small town

at the edge of the bay.

But its fortunes massively changed

with the arrival of the transcontinental railroad in 1869.

One thing a lot of people don't realise is that

it didn't go all the way to San Francisco.

It actually ended here in Oakland.

Passengers would get off the trains and go to a nearby ferry terminal

to take a ferry across the bay to the city of San Francisco.

By the early 1900s, the existing wooden railway station

couldn't support the increasing number of travellers

or their baggage.

In 1912,

the Southern Pacific Railroad unveiled a grand new terminus.

This is Oakland's 16th Street Station.

Driven by the railroad industry, Oakland's economy was booming

and its population was skyrocketing.

Many of those migrating to the city were African-Americans

looking for a new life

away from the racism and segregation of the Jim Crow South.

But finding work was no easy task.

One area that did become a good opportunity for black workers

was in serving the clientele that rode these railroads

on long-distance trips.

The transcontinental railroads here

had ultra-luxury sleeper cars called Pullman cars.

These cars were an important part of the history here.

It took an army of employees

to deliver the indulgence that the company's founder,

George Pullman, wanted to achieve.

They were employed almost entirely from the African-American community.

They were called the Pullman porters

and they carried out their duties with pride.

Because of its vital position

at one end of the transcontinental railroad,

Oakland and this station became a very important hub

for the Pullman porters.

We're in the historic baggage wing.

This is the place where the Pullman porters

would have handled the servicing thousands of passengers

on the trains that came through this station,

dozens of trains on a daily basis.

But it was difficult work

and not as well paid as comparable white workers would be.

The porters were expected to show up for work

long before the trains departed

to help passengers with their bags and to get the cars ready

and that work wasn't compensated.

They often worked as many as 400 hours a month

with little time off and no overtime.

In 1923,

a man named CL Dellums moved from Texas to Oakland.

His arrival heralded a brighter future for the Pullman porters.

When Dellums came to Oakland,

he hoped to enrol in law school.

To make money, he took a job as a Pullman porter.

But he quickly realised

that between the long hours and the low wage

he couldn't actually afford school.

So, unfortunately for him and his law school dreams,

but so fortunately for us

he continued to work as a porter

and CL Dellums immediately distinguished himself

by demanding better, uh, conditions for the black workers.

But the Pullman Company was resistant to change.

Fortunately, Dellums wasn't on his own.

In 1925,

the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids

was founded in New York City.

This was a group that wanted to unionise the porters,

give them some negotiating power

to demand better pay and better conditions.

They clearly knew that it was going to be a struggle.

The union's motto was "Fight or be slaves."

When Dellums learned about the founding of the Brotherhood union,

he knew that this was something that he really wanted to embrace

and he helped organise the Oakland porters and maids

to join the organisation.

Certainly here, in this baggage room,

would have been a place where the porters were organising

and talking about their frustrations as they sweated,

carrying these bags under the pressure of time and the demand,

great demands for them to hustle and move faster

that they certainly would have been very dissatisfied

in this space and talking about the need for better conditions.

The Pullman Company was strongly opposed to the fledgling union

and refused to recognise it.

It did everything in its power to stop Dellums in his tracks.

Dellums himself got fired in 1927.

The company claimed that he'd been found sleeping on the job

but, in fact, this was a common tactic they used

to get rid of people that they saw as troublemakers.

So, the Pullman Car Company,

they used every dirty tactic, every dirty trick in the book,

to be able to squash this union.

The company encouraged African-American staff

to tell on their fellow workers

and sacked employees if they joined the union.

The company also transferred work away from Oakland

so they could make do with fewer porters at that station.

Dellums wasn't deterred and he continued the fight.

In 1929,

he became vice-president of the entire labour union.

They knew it was gonna be an uphill battle

and they didn't win initially

but they kept at it.

It seemed that the more pressure, the more oppression,

the more dirty tricks that were put on them by the rail company,

the more determined they were to make this union be born.

It would take one of the worst economic disasters in American history

to transform the union's fortunes.

In 1929,

the Wall Street stock market crashed,

ushering in the start of the Great Depression.

The American economy hit rock bottom

and something had to be done to help ordinary workers.

During the New Deal under Roosevelt,

laws were passed that made it easier for workers to unionise

and required companies to give workers the right

to bargain collectively.

In 1935,

the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

began negotiations with the Pullman Company,

demanding union recognition and a fairer contract.

The Depression had hit the company profits hard

and it stood vehemently opposed.

But in 1937,

the porters finally won.

The contract improved wages and limited hours to a maximum of

240 hours a month,

which is still a lot.

This was the first time in US history

that a black union reached a bargaining agreement

with a major American company.

This is a huge, huge win for the porters

but this is not only important for the porters.

This is important for America.

This is particularly important for black America

and so many workers who had their aspirations for better lives

tied up in this fight.

You know, this freedom, this ability for this first black union

to stand up to such a powerful corporation, to be recognised,

is amazing.

After the Brotherhood's monumental victory,

the 16th Street Station continued to provide jobs

for porters, maids and other staff

but the winds of change were blowing.

In the 1950s and '60s,

with the rise of the automobile and aeroplane,

fewer people relied on passenger trains for long-distance travel

and the number of porters steadily declined.

Yet, the impact of the men and women who worked at the 16th Street Station

would never be forgotten.

The legacy of the porters is impossible to overestimate.

The fight for civil rights of CL Dellums went so far,

just beyond the organising of the union.

Oakland is known to many as birthplace to movements

like the Black Panther Party

and as a centre of grassroots activism and black nationalism

to this very day.

But those movements are part of a much

longer tradition that stretches back to the incredible work of CL Dellums

and the Pullman porters.

CL Dellums continued to live in West Oakland

until his death in 1989.

But that same year, a natural disaster struck

that meant the 16th Street Station had reached the end of the line.

The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake was the final blow

and, in fact, it sustained significant damage

and had to be closed.

Currently, I'm greatly concerned about the future of the station.

It's essential that the space be preserved.

It's so important to Oakland. It's so important to the bay area.

It's critical to understand our past

to know where we're going in the future.

In Southern Croatia

is an overgrown compound that became embroiled in the fate of a nation.

At the tip of this peninsula

is a really dramatic site,

this great stone building.

It looks like it's been standing watch for hundreds of years.

But as we move along the coastline, we can see

much more modern structures.

So, obviously this has been an important place for a long time.

But why?

This is a tiny point of land but it's a point of power.

it controls access

to the bay beyond.

In the 1990s,

that access was violently fought over

and this cliffside citadel played a vital role

in the chaos that followed.

This was a time when neighbours,

literal neighbours,

became sworn enemies.

A foreign force was sent to keep the entire region

from going up in flames.

They came to be peacekeepers

but there was no peace to keep.

Croatia used to be part of the Austro-Hungarian

Empire and Croatia

was where the Austro-Hungarian Empire

based its Mediterranean fleet.

The Austrians built a series

of fortifications along the Bay of Kotor

including this grand stone fortress at the tip of Prevlaka.

For almost 100 years,

this fort stood guard over the mouth of the bay.

But when the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed after the First World War,

a new country called Yugoslavia was formed in the region.

It was comprised of six republics

including Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro and Serbia.

Yugoslavia was created

on the theory that all of the Slavic states in the Balkans

were all brethren.

But it was a diverse and tenuous coalition.

For years,

Yugoslavia was held together

by the dictator of Yugoslavia,

Josip Broz, "Tito."

Tito was sufficiently powerful to keep it all together.

By the 1950s,

the old fortress at Prevlaka had become obsolete

and Tito decided he needed to modernise

and expand the stronghold.

Yugoslavia's geographical position

made it a potential target for Cold War rivals

on both sides of the globe.

Tito was always concerned that either

the West or the Soviet Union would try to attack Yugoslavia

to control Yugoslavia...

..and Tito had to prepare to defend his Adriatic coast

against all comers.

The Tito regime then

fits these fortifications out

with a helipad,

new bunkers

and new radar stations to detect incoming threats.

It was called the Prevlaka Military Base.

As it turned out,

the enemy that threatened Yugoslavia's borders

didn't come from East or West.

The threat instead came from within

and it would send shockwaves across this entire region.

Tito died in 1980.

At that point,

there was nothing holding

Yugoslavia together anymore.

Slovenia, Croatia, they secede.

Yugoslavia starts to disintegrate.

But the powerful Serbian president,

Slobodan Milosevic,

still controlled the Yugoslav People's Army

and retained the support of Montenegro.

Together,

they were not going to let Croatia leave the union

without a fight.

And so, instead of

a peaceful departure...

.there was going to be a war.

And of course,

the Serbs and the Croats and the Montenegrins

battle over these forts at the southern tip of Croatia.

If Croatia controls Prevlaka...

..then Croatia is going to control

the biggest natural harbour in the former Yugoslavia.

On the 23rd of September 1991

the Yugoslav People's Army advanced into southern Croatia.

Their aim was to crush the Croatian drive for independence

and to seize control of strategically important sites

like the Prevlaka Military Base.

Historian Ivan Viden is an expert on this facility.

So, this area saw

a lot of military action in autumn 1991

because Serbian and Montenegrin forces

invaded south of Croatia.

Unfortunately, a lot of heavy bombing and a lot of atrocities

have been done in this area.

European countries quickly realised that if they did

not stop the conflict in the former Yugoslavia in its tracks,

there would be massive refugee flows

out of Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav states

into the rest of Europe.

They had to stop the war.

An intervention was needed and it would take place

here on the peninsula of Prevlaka.

Montenegro and Serbia say that they should control

Prevlaka Peninsula.

The Croats say, "No, it's part of Croatia,"

and the answer was, "Demilitarise

the Prevlaka Peninsula."

On the 20th of October 1992,

the United Nations peacekeepers descended on Prevlaka

in an attempt to restore order.

The main reason for sending this mission here was to, at first,

ease the conflict and then,

to transform a military question into a diplomatic one.

At that moment,

the UN military mission was a success

because the Yugoslav army evacuated the peninsula

and then, the international political community

recognised this part of Croatian territory

as undisputedly Croatian.

In theory,

Prevlaka is Croatian territory

but there are no Croatian soldiers

in the garrison.

Demilitarising the Prevlaka Peninsula

doesn't make anybody happy

but it keeps the peninsula peaceful.

The Croatian War of Independence raged on until November 1995.

Tens of thousands lost their lives.

The Prevlaka Peninsula remained a source of dispute

throughout the conflict and beyond.

In 2002, Croatia and Montenegro

finally agreed on a temporary solution.

It stipulated that Croatia receive control of the entire peninsula

as well as some of the waters around it.

Following the settlement,

the United Nations peacekeepers were finally able to leave.

Prevlaka has been abandoned ever since.

Today, the Prevlaka Peninsula still belongs to Croatia

but debate continues to rage over its right to control the area.

It's still grit in the gears

between Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro.

But because it's still demilitarised,

Prevlaka is no longer a potential battlefield.

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