Nachricht Nummer : 157 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 39 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ZER.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 17 June, 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 18.06.1993 12:29:00 S+2 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 17 June, 1993 Dobar dan, Late the yesterday evening, or rather already today, Nina passed by to get some materials which Vesna brought from Denmark when she was their to collect that Peace price. On such moments you notice how hard everybody is working and how little time we have to normally sit down and talk for a while. It is about a year ago that we, first Nina and me and later with others started to plan SunCokret, in a couple of weeks it will have it first birthday, when the first workcamp started in Zagreb. Strange when you look at that whole bunch of groups which has been more or less established out the anti war campaign have the same significant power structure. All like ARKzin, SunCokret, NeXus, Women Lobby, Women project for Women Victims of War, but also ARK itself and the peace centres in Osijek, Rijeka and Split, as well as the most of SunCokret long term volunteers, are run by or are women. They form not only the majority of the active workers, but also the majority of the decision making bodies. And that's also the case with groups as the Soros Open Foundation and many of the relief organisations I have visit in the last year. Remarkable when you see that (r)evolution, it is also the first time that I see it happening so clearly, it was not always the case in the countries I visit before. Like Poland, Hungary, the Baltic states and the former CSSR, where after the revolutions also women had a dominate role, but never so strong as here. And it is honestly not so that it could be explained by the war only, that all the man are at the front line, since that is simply not the case. Probably the social researchers will start soon to find out what i was, for me it women power against a culture which is drawn macho believes. When the "old" opposition movement is hooked in endless discussion the new movement put their hands out of sleeves as we say in Dutch and started to work. They took the risks to get things of the ground. It is all in all not a big group, but what has been set up in the last year is unbelievable. The big danger that we suddenly ending up this week in a full scale offensive on the whole front-line with the UNPA zones, as some foreign journalists believed in the last days, also some foreign military people who could know it said it, is if you asked me over. Yesterday and today you saw suddenly that the streets in Zagreb were again full with young man. The huge mobilisation (they said that some of the Islands all young man were mobilised) seems to be over again. It was indeed, what I hoped, only a big training. Also most of the people I know personally have returned back in Zagreb. That is one of those things in a country of war, always living with the uncertainty what will happen tomorrow. You can plan so much, but suddenly the whole situation can change. When I was in the town shopping and listening to the stories, that means listening to the words I recognize, I notice that the fights in Central Bosnia are the talk of the town. In a supermarket a women was telling a very emotional story about the "Muslimani", from what I understood it was clear that she didn't really liked them. After this I started to wonder were this sudden strong reaction comes from, of course lot's of Croatian people have relatives in BiH and now the Croats are on the run in front of BiH Armija and literally thousands of Croatian refugees are coming down south, that could explain a lot. Nevertheless if I ask around to find out if their were old historical reasons for hatress between Croats and Muslim I can't get any clear answer. That is a lot different than f.e. asking about the historical background of the fights between Croats and Serbs. In that case mostly you get a long historical explanation, going back to the times that Croats and Serbs arrived in this region. The only real explanation people are given for this fights in Central Bosnia is the activities of the both peace freaks Vance and Owen. There plan to carve up BiH in 10 pieces is seen as the major tricker for this break out of violence. Every group started to see each piece as their ethnical part of the country and pushing the other ethnical group out or place them under their military or civil command. I sometimes have the feeling that the both didn't really oversee the problems they created by coming up with their proposal, I am sure the had all good intentions, but see what happened. Most of the time however I spend behind the computer today, since we have the new software installed he is having major problems, and I can't figure out what it is. Working on a computer which is installed as networking computer for a movement is a bit like those workers on the tram line, just as you think you are nicely busy the tram goes and you have to stop your work and clear the road. Just as I thought that I was near to the problem somebody phoned and I have to put the BBS back on and have to wait for ages to continue the work, otherwise my users get angry. The posters "Deutschland wird Deutscher" (Germany get more German) from which their are 5 hanging on the most strategic bill boards in the town seems to be an art poster against up coming fascism in Germany. The one in Berlin who made them had some connection with somebody here and that is why they ended up on the walls in Zagreb. They are not the most understandable ones for people in Croatia, if you ask me. 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