Nachricht Nummer : 135 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 38 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ZER.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 31 May, 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 01.06.1993 10:40:00 S+2 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 31 May, 1993 Dobar dan, Through the open window the sound of a salvo of a machine gun comes when I am writing this lines, it is a small short salvo, but still it break through the quiet evening, the birds stopped singing and the frogs I am not hearing anymore. I am looking at the news on television, they saw a whole line of pictures and video tapes of tortured men. The next item is a meeting of HSP, Paraga is speeching, from his speech I note the following lines, really, "UNPROFOR GO HOME" and in Croatian "Bomb Beograd and other Serbian towns (I heard something like Bombedera Beogradu i dragi Srpiski Grada)". I don't know in which contexts he said those lines in a context that showed that he was disagree with those idea's, but knowing him a little longer I don't think so. Tudjman send a telegram to the leader of the Islam community in Croatia and Slovenia, to wish all Islam Moslems congratulation with a Islam special day which was taken place today, don't ask me which since nobody could give me a straight answer. It was called Bajram. He wrote that the Muslim and Croat society hopefully would live in peace together in the future. The next moment you hear again from fights in Mostar and think, when does this living in peace together starts. Mata Boban the president of HVO send a telegram today also, but to Izetbegovic, complaining that the Muslims in Hercegovina are not following up all the agreements they (Boban and Izetbegovic) signed in Medjugorje. Karadzic complained also on the television (I think it was CNN), saying that the Muslims have know declared a full war against the Serbs and that was not according the peace process. That we heard yesterday evening that Serbian troops has broke through one of the defence lines of BiH Armija in Gorazde is probably more following up the spirit of the peace process I react in my mind. Gorazde is not fallen yet, but it looks it goes the same way as Jacje, Derventa and so many other towns before. Or the 100 Croatian refugees who arrived in Tvarnik today from Banja Luka, they came with hope on a better live and ended up in the improvised refugee centres in that town, where they found their relatives, who earlier went away from Banja Luka. Their hopes need to have some patient, since are really free live in an own house, with work and school is not particular the live in a refugee centre in central Bosnia. They are lining up in the long line of people waiting to go further on the long trail to freedom and peace. We forget about them easy, although watching Beograd television is reminding you about them, in Serbia exist a state help organisation Yug-Aid, which bank accounts in Switzerland and spots on Beograd normal and satalite television, but the refugees who run to the "other" sides (seen from Zagreb) also exists. In Pale for example their are a few hundred Serbian refugee also living under the same depressing circumstances as their counter parts in Tvarnik. No than watch the procession through the streets of Zagreb, which took place today, the gold of the churches dresses and the beautiful middle age clothes of the people around the holy things of the church. Literally thousands of people are gathered at the square on the mountain near the famous church with the symbols from Zagreb on it roof. Just a couple of hundred kilometre away from those people in the sport halls and basements, or even a few hundred metres away from those living in sport halls and wooden barracks in Zagreb. I am surprised that I am still after this period still at least a bit normal. I have seen so many, foreign, people collapsing in this area. Getting burned up in no time, or really turning bananas. Today I talk with somebody from another big humanitarian organisations, she is already here for about the same period as me and will go home at the end of this week. She phoned to tell me that they had seen our (Joseph's) truck in Tuzla and that they were surprised that they got all the way through without big problems. For them the road is often much harder she explains. But she is glad to go home it really become to much for her. And she is by far not the only one, some times it looks like you become in a kind of roundabout of working without having the time to think about all your steps. Your are reacting on needs, but loose the whole picture. I promised here to visit here before she goes to say good-bye, but seen my agenda I am wondering how to fit in all the plans for this week. I have to go to Pacras one of this days in order to make arrangement with a UN group there to organise workcamps to rebuild the school there. But I also have to go to Brac in order to talk with the people there about the next number of Help. And to Ravno to give money (which I could lent from another grass root organisation in Zagreb) to the people who are busy planning rebuilding work there. I think I fit it in some way in a Slavic style, what I can't get finished has to wait till a later date, I don't want to end as a nutter. And of course on television the results of the shelling at Gospic yesterday, today it was quiet at that front. In a few hours an other ten houses has been totally destroyed yesterday and a lot of more destruction in the town. Burned out living rooms, where the pictures on the wall show naked women, probably used by an army battalion in the last weeks. 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