Nachricht Nummer : 118 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 40 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ZER.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 24 May 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 26.05.1993 11:21:00 S+2 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 24 May 1993 Dobar dan, It is about 13 years ago that the last time in Beograd, after that I past the city a few time on my way to other parts of Europe, especially during the revolution in Rumania and a few times to join actions of Ecoglasnosc from Bulgaria, against nuke power plants and other polluting things, somehow I never came around to visit the city again. I was living there in Sava Centre and later in some hotel in the centre of the town as one of the official delegates toward the UNESCO general assembly. During that time I was interview a few times by local youth radio journalist, one of them was Vesna Pesic, more or less the informal leader of the Beograd Centre for Anti War Activities. Since a few days Vesna and I are back into contact again via our Email system. At such a moment I start to think why did I end up at this end of the UNPA lines, it easily would have been on the other side. Or if last year at 6 April the bus to Sarajevo still would have went I maybe would have been there. When I went away from the Netherlands I didn't really had a plan in my mind. I stood just about half a hour in the supermarket down stairs and watch a firm build man who obvious had problem with the high bread prices, he was shouting at almost everybody in the shop, what he precisely said I don't really know, but what I could understand was that he was clear that when Croatia was under the Serbs (in former Yugoslavia) the bread of the bread was at least half of what it is now. Just a few days ago I heard somebody saying something very simular, under the communist we had our problems, but now under the capitalist we have our problems too. What is the different if you work for the communist or for the capitalist elite. we the guy in the shop was shouting everybody was trying to ignore him and turn to another way, doing something which looked absolutely normal, but since it was done so obvious it looked unnatural. When he went out of the shop you feel the tension going down. like an airballon loosing all it air. Later when I came out I saw him shouting in front of the building to some old man who are always sitting there. The sudden new approach from the Americans last week has more or less stirred up the French, their minister of foreign affairs made clear that before the American join the fun in the air they should also join the "shit" on the ground. The French claimed to be one of the first and largest UNPROFOR troops submittors and were clearly not charmed by the strong words from Washington. In Osijek again a group of former citizens from Baranja is formed who want fast action now, in the coming week they want to return back to their homes. I remember that it must be more than a year back that we had the first talks in that area about the returning of people soon. Still nothing really seems to have happened. A few times Glavac, who is now the main political leader in that area, launched new actions to press UNPROFOR to open up Baranja and he even said a few time that they would forces their way into Baranja, but up to the day of today it never came to this. I saw some reports from Mostar today, till my big surprise there is now a bridge over the river, up to now I never seen that one before and that bridge survive, it is such an emergency bridge (all the other bridge, except from the old one, were blown up last year when JNA left the city) has survived the fights in the town. The main headquarters of BiH Armija, which looked always a bit like a night club, since they had a kind of neon light commercial outside, has not came through the fighting undamaged, in fact you can say it is heavily destroyed. Most of the Muslim live now on the east bank of the river in the older part of the town, the Neretva forms the line between the Croat and Muslim held parts of the town. The last weeks I haven't been writing much about our work around here. Still we are surviving on hardly nothing, the financial situation is not really fantastic, the last week we have got some help for NeXus from Bosnien Hilfe from Aachen, but for the rest we have to see how to come through the rest of the months. The team is a little smaller than before now Jason went on holidays and our video maker has to go back to the UK to edit her video for the BBC. But in their place Joe from the states came back from working for over 3 months in Gasinci and he will take care about the contacts by Email, but the first step is to get NeXus official recognised by the local and national authorities. Never the less of the nearly daily deliveries of medicines and other humanitarian aid via NeXus towards refugees camps, hospitals and ambulates all over Croatia and even in BiH, we still are officially not have our paper finished. Partly due to the fact that the Croatian government has changed again their laws on humanitarian aid. Also part of the team is now Paula from the Women for Peace from the UK, one of the truck driving women. The atmosphere in the house is as the period of the year, sunshine is in the air and so in the house at the sunshine street (Suncena). The group in Citluk busy with the rebuilding project in Ravno is still going strong, although there the leak of cash money is getting worst, but we have learned to live with the live on the edge of excising. And we are sure that when to need is the highest something will happen to help us out. So let's not worry to much, nema problema.... 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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