Nachricht Nummer : 205 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 35 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ZER.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 22 July, 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 05.08.1993 08:39:00 S+2 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 22 July, 1993 Dobar dan, I made a phone call with some friend in south Dalmatia today, they are in the neighbourhood of Makarska and working for some small international relief organisation. They told me that they witnessed fights between two Croat women from Zenica, who just arrived in the refugee center a few days ago and Muslim women who already were there for nearly a year. One of the two women is an older one who lost one of her son during the last fights and hates the Muslims there fore with all her heart. She started to through stones at the other women and shouted at them, that went on for nearly half a hour until a group of other Croat refugee from Zenica cooled her down. The next thing what she and a younger Croat women, also from Zenica did was refusing the Muslim women to go to get their food in the restaurant. The posted themselves in front of the door and made it in possible for all the Muslim women and children to pass them, the other Croat women they let through. One of the Muslim women tried to explain them in tears that she didn't wanted the fight and that she was thankful towards the Croats, she lived all her live together with them in a little village near Jajce and was as confused about the situation as those two women. She said that she could understand there anger, but also that those two should understand that none of the women in the Hotel had anything to do with the fights in central Bosnia, even when there were maybe relatives of them involved. An other women joint her in her plea, stating that she lost her husband in the early days of the war, the Chetnik took him and shoot him straight in front of her eyes. She had 4 children, 4 boys, who were able to escape the village before the Chetniks came. She knows that 2 of them joint HVO and are still fighting in that uniform. She said that they are maybe even fighting against their own people. From the other two she hadn't heard anything since they left the village more than one and half years ago. After she said that she also broke out in tears. One of the Hotel leaders had to break up the blockade, saying that this were all good Muslims and that there shouldn't be a war between refugees. This example, from which I think that it will be in one of the local newspapers soon, since I know my friends and they will report it, shows ones more how hard the situation is at the moment. A simular report came back with Elu last week when he returned from Capljina in Hercegovina, where he stayed for some weeks in the school which is now used since nearly a year as collective centre for Muslim refugees. There was also another International volunteer working in that place for a couple of months already, we visit him some time ago and he predicted at that moment already that the tensions would grow. When I met him later in Zagreb a few times he talked about mass arrests of Muslim man in the school and later even that they send Muslims in HVO to fight against there own people. Anyway He and Elu were arrested by the local authorities last week and send out of the city, they told them that they weren't allowed to return. Together with them also the local observer from UNHCR was send out of the town, as far as we know he isn't allowed back into the town up to now. Elu also told that the train wagon camp , which was established in February by the German organisation Cape Anamur was left by them and handed over to the local authorities, which are using it now, according to Elu's information as detention camp for Muslims. The Muslim people in the wagon camp will be transported, when every thing goes according to plan to Germany, but up to today I have not heard if that really has happened already. Capljina is the last place in HVO controlled Hercegovina were a lot of Muslim refugee were, they other smaller center in the area has been emptied over the last month and all refugees went abroad. Today also the new ARKzin came out, it looks good, but seen the open attacks on the last issue this number is again full of articles on which they can be attacked. One of the funniest one is the reaction from Glavac on the last number, they indeed found a newspaper article in which he says that the days reminding the start of the Croatian resistance against the Utashi regime in the second war world is not a holiday, he only said it last year and not this year. As illustration they used a picture of him saying his words in Cyrillic. For the rest the strip is a little bit censored after the women groups complained last time, after they shown ARKzin on an international women meeting, that it was a bit sexists. It is a double number this time and Vesna can be happy the coming one and half month she don't have to live under stress anymore, the next number wouldn't come before the end of September. Tonight of course as always the monthly party of the left wing movement, since I have to take tomorrow morning the 6 o'clock train to Pakrac in order to be in time for my meeting with UNPROFOR decided not to go. Around 11 o'clock Vesna T. phoned from the party telling that it was great fun, but that they just had a visit of the police, which was called by one of the neighbours, they only told that they had to be a little bit more quiet and for the rest "nema problema".... 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