Nachricht Nummer : 119 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 31 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ZER.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 25 May 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 26.05.1993 12:43:00 S+2 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 25 May 1993 Dobar dan, Just when you have got used to the fact that the idea of military intervention from the air is out of the question you get the news that the NATO, on their meeting today in Brussels, again has said that they leave open that option. It looks like it takes a long time before people make decisions. The first use of aeroplanes in actual attacks, besides the role they are already playing in the controlling of the none fly zone over BiH will be to secure the save area's, the new name for the save heavens. Also my home country, the Netherlands, has said that they will put in some plans, beside the bigger powers. On the news reports today emotional scene of the exchange of prisoners between Serbia and Croatia, in Atacac today there was an exchange of 29 Croats against 30 Serbians. The Croatian Television said that 5 Serbian prisoners didn't join the exchanged, they wanted to stay in Croatia. . Mazowiecki (again what does that man look healthy, considering the living dead he used to look like when he was President of Poland) published his report on the fights between HVO and BiH armija in Hercegovina and Central Bosnia. According to his report, Croats (HVO ?) has entered houses of Muslims in that area and kill all people in it and that reports were received of Croats raping Muslim women, and the other hand he has received reports from Muslims (BiH armija ?) fighters who captured and massacred Croatian boys. But most of the research still have to be done. Mazowiecki said however that he has proof from ethnical cleansing done by HVO in the whole area. A convoy on it's way to central Bosnia was blocked by Croats, who claimed that they also had a shorts of food ("we are hungry too, the Muslims shot at us, so why should we help them"), but haven't received anything, somewhere in Hercegovina, they blocked the road with stones and road blocks, when the UK armoured warriors went over it the people started to use their bodies to stop the UNPROFOR protection force of the convoy. At a certain moment from one of the houses at least 26 shots were fired just over one of the Warriors. This resulted in a very angry UK commander which made clear that he don't like that people shot at his man and that his warriors have a lot more fire power and when they went on this way he was glad to proof it. When the Warriors pushed their way through the blockades, a wonder that nobody was hurt, if you look at the pictures it often just was a matter of a few centimetres. Anyway the convoy drivers didn't want to follow the UK Warriors, the Muslim drivers were afraid to be shot at and after a while the whole convoy, inclusive the Warriors returned to the UK base, tomorrow they will try again with Danish and other International drivers. In Mostar again there were peace talks between HVO and Muslim troops. In front of the building a lot of Muslim women, who try to explain the world reporters that the Croats are busy to destroy their culture and right to speak their own languages. "Just a year ago we spoke all the same language, Serbo-Croatian, but the Croats say now that the languages is a Serbia languages and have change the words". Boban, the president of Herceg Bosna (not from Mostar, but from Medjugorje, when I recognize the picture right), tried again today to call up on the Muslim forces to stop the hostilities and follow the agreements made last week in Medjugorje. He was reacting on the speech of Izetbegovic, which call up on "all Bosniers" to do what ever was in their power to defend BiH. He also said that they found a secret Muslim document about how to protect the Muslim inheretage. The role from the Croatian government and the Croats in Croats in all this is unclear . Again the Croatian officials stated for the foreign television journalist, that they have no official connection with Hercegovina HVO government, there are no export of weapons from Croatia to there and that no Croatian soldiers are fighting in BiH. When I phoned a couple of time today with Citluk the reaction there was that it is quite at last, but the tension is everywhere. Last Saturday again drunken soldiers went around the school in Posusje and shot in the air. In this case SunCokret get a lot of help from the local major of the town council which immediately stopped it after they phoned him. The Croatian Minister Rudolf went to Ljubljana today to see his collegue from Slovenia, Mr. Peterle to talk about the tension around the Croatian and Slovenian border in North West Istria. But if they decided to stop the building of that border control post is unclear to me, they at least decided to form a joint commission to work on the border question. This remind me on a story which somebody from Slovenia told me the other day that Croatia is holding another record, since the first Croatian government was formed about 2 years ago already over 300 people went through it. and yes I nearly would forget it, although tomorrow there is a delegation from Krajina coming to Zagreb for new cease fire talks there was again shelling on the hinter land of Zadar today. Bok I Mir from Zagreb, Wam P.S. I nearly would forget Bianca Jagger was again in Zagreb today. ------------------------------------------------------ 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. Lylette, Postbox 780, 6130 AN Sittard, Netherlands, tel:. +31-46-524803 and fax: +31-46-516460 or to Zagrebacka Banka, Zagreb, accountnr.: 2440291594, to Kat, Pieter Jan Herman Fredrik, Brace Domany 6 6fl nr3, 41000 Zagreb. Please notify me if you send or have send any donations. ## CrossPoint v2.1 ##