Nachricht Nummer : 145 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 43 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ZER.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 6 June, 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 07.06.1993 16:40:00 S+2 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 6 June, 1993 Dobar dan, Burkie went to Dubrovnik the other day to install some of the local organisations down there to our network, I went on Friday to the IRMO institute in Zagreb, since they also like to be connected to the rest of the world. When I arrived there I felt a little silly standing with my 2400 Bps internal modem in front of a brand new UNIX machine which was connected with a direct line via a high speed modem to the InterNet of the university in Zagreb. But it was not totally lost visit since I found out a lot about this at this moment still non-governmental institute. The were busy with development and international co-operation studies before the war and could survive as one of the only non-governmental research centres. At this moment however is a law under discussion which will make the non- governmental status impossible, since all institutes will be more or less governmental controlled. Since the institute has also plans to do more research on the field of non-violent conflict resolution and building up program to establish such a culture in these countries by starting post graduated studies, they are a little afraid that such a plan would not fit in the governmental research policy and therefore would be cancelled before it really could start. Sunday, one of those days that war seems to be far away from the reality in Zagreb, always a hard day to find a story, at least for me now after all those time getting used to all the crazy things in a country at war. But today as all other days I didn't had to wait or search for it, I was waiting for the tram when a nice girl came straight to me. She knew me, but I had a hard time remembering her. To many people run through my life and I have sometimes really problems to remembering them all. Anyway she told me that she is going to a non-violence conflict resolution workshop in Belgium. And when she went on talking I recognised our peace centre volunteer from Beograd, she is Croatian, but lived a long they in the main city on the other "Side" (as she calls Serbia) and was active there in the Centre for Antiwar Activities. Because of the normal financial problems she stopped working at ARK some time ago and started to work for UNPROFOR. We went for a drink and she explained me that she would like to leave the city, Zagreb, as soon as possible, since you feels very lost around here. Most of the people she met her didn't really take the work of the CAA in Beograd serious. Bomb the town and that would solve the problem was the solution they gave her. But like so many people her she has good friends on the "other" side. And nevertheless the fact that it is not always easy she often goes back to visit her friends there and here things, most of it is still in Beograd. During the last trip on both side she met customers asking her about the other "side" and telling her about the great time they had in the main city at the "other" side. Her first job at an UNPROFOR battalion was a big mistake, this battalion had obvious taken side for the Croatian and Muslim case and said that she was a Serbian propagandists. Now she changed to other battalion, of other country, bad things are a little better, but as peace activists it is still strange to work in a "company" were most thoughts are rather in solving this type of conflicts with arms rather than by non-violent conflict resolution means. The status of "local" working for UNPROFOR has changed as well over the month. In the beginning locals and Internationals had the same type of identity cards, which gave them the same type of advantages outside the UNPROFOR barracks as the bleu UNHCR identity cards, free public transport and such. However UNPROFOR change their policy and the locals lost their nice "extra's". I asked her if she would maybe be interested in helping me with building up the reconstruction workcamps in Pacras this summer, since she is able to speak the languages a both side of the UNPA line. But unfortunately I can't offer her the same payment as UNPROFOR. The fights in central Bosnia, between Croats (HVO) and Muslims (BiH Armija) are getting worst the last days. An HVO commander said that they tried about every thing to cool down the fighting but that the Muslim don't keep their promises. And now we are back to an open full scale war. To proof that HVO put in their multiple rocket launcher in order to regain lost grounds, the last days HVO lost some of their territories they controlled in central Bosnia. UNPROFOR is often hooked in the fights, today a local HVO commander had a fight (luckily with words) with a UNPROFOR commander, he, the HVO one, was sure that in one of the UK Warriors they hide a Muslim soldier and he wanted to search the armoured cars. The UNPROFOR commander of course didn't let them and the whole thing ended in a shouting from both sides. All of this increased again the streams of refugees. The mountain villages which were relative quiet up to now are under attack and more and more of their villagers are fleeing to one of the bigger towns in their area, where their nationality has the control. On the other side of Bosnia, around Gorazde, the fights are also continuing, according to the messages around her the Bosnian Serbian army destroyed around 40 villages around the town and are still refusing UNPROFOR observers into the town and the area. One positive messages, however, from BiH, the airbridge to Sarajevo has restarted yesterday, after being closed down on Wednesday. Bok I Mir from Zagreb, Wam ------------------------------------------------------ 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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