Nachricht Nummer : 156 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 57 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ZER.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 16 June, 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 17.06.1993 11:47:00 S+2 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 16 June, 1993 Dobar dan, Waiting, waiting and waiting, at 10 o'clock an official delegation of HCA, Helsinki Citizens Assembly, with all the big peace freaks from Western Europe and some members of the different parliaments in it. The first HCA meeting in Praha, 2 1/2 years ago, is were I met Vesna Terselic, she was that over active green activists, who stood up in a room with over 250 people and gave critics on the organisation. I always had so my thoughts about the use of HCA, it looked from the beginning more an organisation which came in existing because after the revolutions in Eastern Europe and the nuclear rockets didn't came after all the peace movement had nothing to do anymore. So Dienstbier, at that moment minister of foreign affairs (former dissident of Charta, who probably would had become president if Havel wouldn't have been so known in the west) and Mient Jan Faber (the uncrown king of the Dutch peace movement, a big promoter of the "Holanditis", a mysterious decease which was travelling around Europe in the early 80'ties and recognised by an USAmerican senate member or a famous Times reporter, the movement against the cruise missiles broke out the Dutch borders and spread all over Western Europe as it was described) started HCA. Anyway at this moment I think nearly 1000 or more NGO's, peace, human rights, environmental, labour unions and so are member of this network. They organise the big peace caravans to this region in the last month's of '91. With the delegation who should have come today we, Vesna T., Vanja and me would have gone to Pacras. But we waited for nothing, the HCA delegation went to Sarajevo yesterday and that is the last we have heard from them. Let's hope for them that they just forgot to phone us and that nothing has happened. So after waiting for such a long time we gave up and started to do other work, I was a little disappointed since I would have love to see Mient Jan face when he had met me here, and I would have love to discuss with them the possibility to get money to employ those former foreign soldiers in order to clean the minefields around the village in Eastern Slavonia. When we were waiting in Geneva another peace meeting took place between Izetbegovic, Milosovic and Tudjman, which is hardly anymore referred to as Tudjman in normal live, but as Franjo, so it looks like everybody has a personal relationship with him. An USAmerican reporter describe the meeting with the following words, "All three leaders are talking now which each other at the same table and as long as they are talking there is hope for peace". I was thinking how much money I would be willing to offer to be at one of those talks, since I have the feeling that those 3 guys have talked so much with each other in the last year that they must know everything about each other family. But maybe this reporter was right, there is always hope. When I was talking with people in the Citluk office about the rebuilding project in Ravno I couldn't refuse to ask a bit more information about the situation there at the moment, now thousands of Croatian refugees are arriving there at the moment. They told me that the Konijc town council, the Croatian part at least, has opened their office in exile the last week. It was said that Konijc is now totally taken over by the Muslims and most Croats have left the town. Also in Vares, about 40 Km north of Sarajevo and 25 Km straight East from Zenica is overflooded by Croatian refugees, in the last days around 15.000 arrived from Kakanj, a small village in the neighbourhood. The report said that the town is completely surrounded by BiH Armija troops and cut of from Croatian supply lines. In Vitez, also a Croatian held town which is surrounded by BiH Armija the situation is getting worst, during the many cease fires the fights continue and war hospitals are full. One of this hospitals really looks like those pictures of the W.W.I and II, it is situated in a church. In your mind you see famous nurse from the W.W.I running around the place (sorry can't remember her name at the moment). Blood dripping at the floor and while the local commander are negotiating with the BiH troops about evacuating the most wounded soldiers to Split (the nearest real hospital are in Travnik and Zenica, which is in the hands of BiH armija) four of the wounded dead already. If you know look on the map of central BiH it gives this feeling of circles in circles, isolated Croat pockets within isolated Muslim pockets. Closing up the day I am looking my favourite program, Slikom na Sliku, and see how two boys in a cave at the Dalmatian coast found the skeleton of a crocodile, their older brother, in uniform, shows their monkey, which he brought ten years ago from Bombay and who was also wounded by a grenade attack, it looked totally recovered from it, as a good Balkan monkey he loved cigarettes. An other report was about the Croatian painter Gredo Paic, who lives in my home country. He painted f.e. our queen and some other famous Dutch people. He came to Zagreb to have an exhibition of his latest work, Croatia is war. A soldier, who lost a leg, together with his children, mines on the bridge near Sibinik, a destroyed church, the broken bridge in Osijek, all very realistic and good painted, but somehow I made me think about that famous painting from the little gypsy boy with tears in his eye. O, yeah, the border between Slovenia and Croatia is closed by Slovenian farmers, who want to have more money for their products. More than 1000 trucks have lined up on the Austrian side of the border, also aid trucks. Bok I Mir from Zagreb, Wam P.S. when my diary will change a little bit in the next week from style, a little bit more explanations or so, the explanation is that starting with tomorrow I am writing also my diary for Danas, an of course state owned, Croatian weekly, which will publish it in their next week's number. ------------------------------------------------------ Zagreb Diary can be found on a lot of different electronic networks, it is copyright free and can be ported to any network or other means of communication you like, but please drop my a line, you can reach by sending a message to wam@zamir-zg.comlink.de or wam@zamir-zg.comlink.apc.org. Zagreb Diary is dedicated to Tyche, Pjort and Rik, so that they found out what there father have been doing all that time in Zagreb. Financial support for Grassroot relief work in Croatia or BiH can be send to Kollektief Rampenplan (atn. 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