Nachricht Nummer : 151 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 33 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ZER.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 11 June, 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 14.06.1993 05:44:00 S+2 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 11 June, 1993 Dobar dan, The whole morning and afternoon I was busy to get the new software on the BBS computer, which we installed during the night. Just at the moment that I was thinking, come it is time to get some news from what happens in central Bosnia, especially since Astrid and Tibor are still there and I started to pack my things when the telephone disturbed the (relative) peace. It was Astrid phoning from the office of the co-ordinator of UNHCR in Tuzla. "At last" was my first reaction "How are you and how is Tibor". Strange that you first ask for the health of the people you know, since there are over 100.000 other people around them in the same situation. She told that they made in to Tuzla without many problems, the bus ran normal. But they can't go out and the people told her and Tibor that it probably can take some weeks before the bus will start to drive again. For the time being the route over Travnik is closed. She phoned to tell me that she couldn't be evacuated by UNPROFOR or UNHCR, since she and Tibor hadn't the famous bleu UNHCR pass and only people carrying those passes are entitled to be evacuated. There was a possibility to leave the town with one of the UNHCR flights and in fact the local staff would like to help them. The situation in Travnik is relative quiet, only some sporadic shelling told the UNPROFOR liaison officer the other day. Astrid said that she is most of the time in the shelter and that they can't do much at the moment, she like to get back in Zagreb as soon as possible since there is a lot of work waiting for her. And after a while she had to admit that she also was a little scarred. Just at the moment that the serious talks were over, the exchange of the data which is needed to make a bleu pass, since we have to convince somebody at the UNHCR office in Zagreb in order that they send a conformation to their office in Zenica, which is the only place in the area where they can issue those Bleu passes, and we started to talk about the more casual things the line was cut, I still could hear her, but she couldn't hear me anymore, I heard her using some strong word and hanging up. At such a moment you really feel shit, since I can't phone her, I am trying now for weeks to get through by normal telephone and she don't know that I still could hear her. One positive thing is that they are still alive and not "missing in action" as I worried the last days. Directly after her phonecall I phoned with the UNHCR office, but I was already too late. The girl at the telephone switch board told me that all important people were already out for the weekend and that before Monday nothing could be organised. And that is that is than another moment that you have to breath deep and hope that they (and all the other people around them) come through the weekend. Jasmina from SunCokret, just back from Dubrovnik and Hercegovina promise that she will talk with Amela from ICVA on Sunday in the hope that we can speed up things for our both travellers (in the back of my mind I think I would be even more glad when that stupid fighting would stop and ALL people could be safe). The convoy on his way to Tuzla still hasn't arrive, only some trucks came through. The television showed picture of a truck which rammed a telephone pool, the dead body of the driver, literally full with bullets, lay over his steering wheel as in films, blood dripping out the cabin on the road. The reporter told that he saw how the truck went passed a group of armed people in uniform, following the others in front of him, and suddenly a of the guys in uniform started to shoot. Directly after the shooting they ran away, I don't know from which force they were, but the looked rather young, the reporter said, so it is an open question if they where members of one of the "official" armies. During the night at least 7 of the drivers have been killed and a lot of them are beaten up by "Utashi" as they said. The pictures showed the drivers hiding behind one of the UK warriors during on attack on the convoy. You could hear the dry rapid bangs of the warrior's fast machine gun and the panic screaming of the drivers. During the morning about 40 trucks were redirected by a HVO roadblock on to a small road and up to now nobody know what happened with those trucks and their drivers. The rest was stopped again after they got a free passing some hours ago at another check point. UK UNPROFOR commander said "We can't operate when there is Anarchy, first there must be peace and some order, this is real anarchy". The next television shots showed how the people from the village carried the food from the stranded trucks (from which the drivers were shot dead) to their houses. And who can blame them, most of the people in this region also have huge problems to get food. Back home I watch for awhile the news a Beograd television and saw the same pictures of the Croatian refugees on that grass near the hill side, which was shown on HTV yesterday. They undertone of the report was that this pictures show the true about what they, the Serbs, have been saying all those months. And it seems that the Serbian media has taken the side of the Croats in this conflict. 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