Nachricht Nummer : 160 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 36 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ZER.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 20 June, 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 20.06.1993 18:32:00 S+2 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 20 June, 1993 Dobar dan, "Don't worry be happy" This song is always played on HTV when the figures of the Lotto are announced. Every week a couple of 100 million HDR are able to be won, war or no war the games continue. Like the Mediterranean games, which are taking place in France. The delegation of BiH, you ask yourself immediately, which BiH (I hardly can imagine that in that delegation there are representatives from any other part of BiH than the from the areas which are under control of the government in Sarajevo), was one of the biggest delegations at the opening some days ago. For the first times in weeks I visit the station today, no special reason, since the days that the station is full with refugees is months ago, just since I had to put Vesna on the tram there. It is also always a good place to watch how new soldiers, boys from maybe just 20 or even younger are brought to the train by their families, it looks if the soldiers get younger every month. The site is changed since the last time, this big building project of a kind of super trade centre near the old hotel Esplanade has started and yesterday some Croatian officials lay the first stone for this new "pearl" of Zagreb. Another thing what has change is that the Burek shop, which was a great fan of Paraga and HOS, not only did you see soldiers from HOS there day and night, but also the whole place was full with their posters, is gone. Only a whole in the asphalt shows that it use to be there. When I was sitting in the park in front of the station, enjoying the hot sun, I heard some load voices and the normal slogans and indeed around the corner about 5 soldiers from HOS appeared, none of them in a total uniform, but most with a lot of black clothes on. When they pass the corner of their building the looked up to their flag and show that it was just a big knot, due to the hard wind. They screamed up stairs in order to warn somebody to straighten the flag again. Nobody reacted, so about five minutes later one of the group went up himself. I saw something else however what surprised me, normally there were three flags at the HOS building, the HOS flag, a kind of Croatian flag, a black flag and the green flag with the moon and the star. Most of the time all three are half in top. But now I saw only two flags, the Muslim flag has disappeared. There used to be a lot of Muslims fighting in HOS, at least in BiH, what has happened with them I don't know. Besides the court case against their leader Paraga you don't hear much from them at the moment. The first results of the referendum in the Krajina region came out today, over a million people went to vote and the result is not surprising, they vote to combine their regions with the Serbian held region in "former Bosnia" (as a spoke person said). A reporter from CNN reported from Knin interviewing a spokesman from the Krajina government who explained her that this was a democracy and that their Serbian country had no way to survive if they would combine themselves with the two other parts where Serbs live (in Bosnia and Serbia). The summer and the tourist session has real started, today a huge aeroplane landed at Split airport from Praha, already last week I saw a lot of Check busses and cars in Istria, but the summer exodus has really started now. The representative from the local tourist council of Split explained how important the arrival of this aeroplane was for the region. Months ago we heard already that the hotels on Brac, owned by Pliva, the medical factory in Zagreb, had to be cleaned fro refugees in order to make place for workers from a partner company from Pliva in Praha, today their workers have arrived. In Zagreb you see also more and more real tourists popping up, people with nice camera's and recognisable holiday clothes. For me it is still strange to see that happening, I know that it will bring money to the country, but it is so strange that people are coming here just to visit the town, like you visit London or Paris, I hope you understand that feeling. Just they other day I was talking with another friend who had been in Mostar during the fights their, he had to be there to visit some family of somebody and give him some news. On his way out he was pin pointed by a sniper who said somewhere at a roof. He got a safe hiding place behind some pallets full with thing with are placed all around the town to hide. When the bullets plopped around him into the things on the pallet he started to get bored after sitting there for about half a hour. So he wanted to know what the "things" under the plastic were. Especially when one of the bullets had an inpack just above his head and some red stuff came out of the plastic. So he took his pocket knife and remove the plastic around the "things" and who described his surprise when he show tin can with red beans from America appearing. We heard that some time ago a hundred tons of food arrived from the states and that nobody really knew where they went, now we probably found them back. They are used as shelters on the streets in Mostar. For the rest it is just a Sunday as every Sunday, warm, but not to hot for the old ladies in their black clothes to gather on the main square under the horse, talking about the good old days and the area's they come from. 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