Nachricht Nummer : 148 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 37 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ZER.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 8 June, 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 11.06.1993 11:27:00 S+2 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 8 June, 1993 Dobar dan, Writing this day I am sitting on a yellow wooden box in the evening sun in front of the UNHCR building in Zagreb, in front of me a fleet of white cars, from strong range rovers up to luxes Mercedes cars (the UNHCR 1). I am waiting for a German delegation who is visiting some officials inside and which I saw passing on the stairs. One of that delegation will get the shock of her life since we haven't seen each other since some blockades I think we have done against the USAmerican rockets in South Germany. I think I met her once since then officially on a UNCED prepcom meeting in Geneva, but she will be surprised seeing me here. Anyway we had NGO steering community meeting again today and the best story comes again from this UNPROFOR/UNCHR liaison officer. This week without his map, but with his special UK accent. "Nothing has change in the last week in Croatia, the same news as last week". "However the BiH situation has changed a lot". Still missing is the 5 trucks from the UK charity "Convoy of Mersey", but the biggest blow last week was the attack at the UNHCR convoy near the Serbian Bosnian and Central Bosnian border, during which 2 Danish drivers and 3 Local staff people were killed. In Denmark it triggered a big discussion if their drivers here were protected enough and if Denmark should continue providing transport help to UNCHR. I understood that the both co-ordination group from Denmark who organise the trucks and drivers have decided to stay and work on. The officers said if he would describe the attack generously it was an attack knowingly fired at an UN convoy, of course it could have been unclear what the convoy really was transporting, materials for UNPROFOR or humanitarian aid. More DP's (Displaced people) are on the move (they are coming from Zenica, which is under control of the 7th BiH armija Brigade), lost of them going in the direction of the Travnik region. According the UNHCR report HVO is taking Muslim DP's out of most Serbian houses in Mostar, which were taken by this DP's in the past months after the Serbs left, and bringing them to centralised centres. One of the working bridges between Mostar and Jablanica is closed by a local HVO commander, but the officers thinks it is just a local thing. Soon the guy will be replaced by a more serious commander, according to his experiences. From the 3 planned convoys from Zagreb, via Banja Luka to Zenica, passing two frontlines, only one could get through the last week, this not because of refusals by the Bosnian Serbs, but due to the fighting in Central Bosnia between Croats and Muslims. A little frustrating after the success to open up this northern front-line passing. But based on the success that at last deals can be made which seems to be kept UNHCR will try to make a front-line crossing north of Tuzla in the next period. That way the convoys can run directly and all the way to Tuzla, it is not needed anymore to reload on the smaller Dutch UNPROFOR trucks. In the south the fights around Gorazde have been stronger, it looks like that Bosnian Serbs like to isolate Gorazde in a same kind of pocket as Bihac, the fights are extremely heavy around the last valley linking Goradze in principle with the outside world. Also the Muslim army had launched that attack out of Sarajevo in the direction of Pale, it looks according to the first UNCHR observers who passed that area that the fights were really big and that the Bosnian Serbian army lost some grounds there. In Srebrenica the fights are not over yet, they report at least 300 cease fire violation per day, the average in the last week, before it worst. This violation are coming from both sides there, the BiH armija defending the town as well as from Bosnian Serbian held positions. The Bosnian Serbs army in this region is complaining about the BiH armija, which is not respecting the cease fire and is not according to them handing over enough guns to speak about a disarmament of all armies in the region. UNHCR has also started to supply more and more food and humanitarian aid to the Bosnian Serbian held area's in the North, they run convoys on Jajce, Doboj and Banja Luka. In those towns they hand over the distribution to local authorities, but they think it has more change to get to the people who really need it if they bring it closer to them. That materials get to the rights spots show the reports of two international observers who are driving around in that area in a Nissan. Never before they hadn't such a freedom of moving. It seems that they are building up a good deal of goodwill up there and maybe soon all the transports go via this northern route and the Diamond track (Tomislavgrad, Tvarnik, Tuzla) is out of order. The next point on the agenda was information of the Office from Displace Person and Refugees. There is another rumour going around that the International NGO's has to re-registrated themselves, so we asked it the representative from the office, but all she could say was that it could be possible, "Everything is possible" were her words, but she hadn't heard from it yet. Anyway the idea that there is coming one office were all the NGO's go to with there problems will probably taken over by the Croatian Government now you have to run around Zagreb, from one office to another to get your papers together. 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