Nachricht Nummer : 149 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 35 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ZER.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 09 June 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 13.06.1993 11:48:00 S+2 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 09 June, 1993 Dobar dan, Vesna J. and Srdjan have left by aeroplane to Copenhagen today, in order to collect one or another peace price. In the last year we all have won a number of bigger and smaller Peace and/or Human Right prices. Mostly however we haven't really the time to collect them. Like now Vesna needed the whole night to finish her last articles for the next ARKzin. We is now sold in most bookstores in the centre of Zagreb and wonder above wonder is really selling better than everybody expected. A week ago Astrid and Tibor went to Split, in order to travel from there to Posusje and take a bus in Tomislavgrad to Tuzla. The evening before they left I told them about the Italian convoy which was lost in the area between Tomislavgrad and Travnik, but they had something like, if it is really dangerous the bus won't go, so then we will be back in a few days. But the busline Zagreb-Tuzla is something special, how those drivers does it I don't know but the line haven't been much out of order during any of the fights, it keep driving. So the last thing I heard from those two was that they were in Posusje and left from there for Tomislavgrad and that it is, so I am a little worried about them. If they haven't come through to us in the next 2 days than I am trying to find out with them myself. Zagreb is quiet the last 4 days, the town looks really empty, when I drove with Eric Bachman (who came yesterday with the new software for our BBS system) through the city at rush hour he also said to me that he felt as driving in Beograd a few weeks after the boycott started. It looks like if hundreds of people have disappaired. Also during the evenings it is a lot more quiet than normal. The only reason for this can be the sudden mobilisation which has started last week. I have heard from so many sides that friends and relatives are called up for what is called a two weeks training camp. Also in my direct circles of friends I know at least 16 people which have been called up in the last 7 days (for some I have to take care for the animals and plants). In the beginning I didn't notice it so much, but when you keep on hearing stories from people who are called up. And you combine it with the fact that in a few weeks there will be an referendum in the Krajina (UNPA) parts of Croatia about the question if they stay together as separate state, join up with the Bosnian Serbian state or with Serbia directly or something like that, the precise question and date from the referendum is very vague. In the past month we often talked with each other what to do if the major offensive from Croatia towards the UNPA zones would take place But in the back of your mind you hope it wouldn't happen, that it all is just a big nightmare. At this moment it is again such a strange situation. Unclear, the news, both in Croatia and abroad is not really paying any attention to this mobilisation wave and let's hope and pray that it is just a giant training. But who knows..... Some days ago a friend from Germany (Berlin) visit me and he ask me when he left how you could pay bills in Croatia. When I ask him why he wanted to know he told me that he received 150 DEM from a family in Beograd (which is a big capital, considering that the average income in Serbia at this moment is between 30 and 40 DEM), which had to be paid on the account number of the town council of Hvar. This family owns a holiday house on Hvar and some months ago they received in Beograd a bill for the yearly house tax, but of course you can't pay bill in Croatia, when you are in Serbia, you can't pay any foreign bills for that matter. So they gave the money to somebody who went to German and that person brought it to my friend who now is in Zagreb. It is a beautiful story, since in this case the holiday house, which is for over generations from this Serbian family from Beograd, still exist and isn't occupied by refugees or displaced people, as with some holidays houses elsewhere in Croatia. Neither is the house looted, burned down or blown up. It just stand their as they left it the last summer they were able to visit it (1991), everybody in the village knows it is from this Serbian family, as you can see from the fact that the town council even send their bills to their home address in Beograd. This reminds me on a story from another Serbian guy from Beograd who came to Zagreb some weeks ago, he travelled all around the country to find out if the hate against Serbs among the population in Croatia was as high as they told him in Serbia. After travelling a month around the Croatia, visiting his holiday house (which also was still existing and not taken) on another Island he had to admit that the people were by far more friendly towards him than he expected in the first place, he had absolute no problems (even not at the border, considering he was carrying the "wrong" Yugoslav passport and talks the "wrong" Serbian languages). Everywhere he came people wanted to know how life was in Serbia at the moment and gave him letters and messages for their friends in Beograd, in the hope that he could deliver them. Such stories proof that their is also another side in this war, a side which is totally different from the stories, which normally are been told. 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