Nachricht Nummer : 79 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 47 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ZER.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 7 May, 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 08.05.1993 09:24:00 S+2 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 7 May, 1993 Dobar Dan, The first 24 hours are passed since the what is mostly called the "none- decision" was taken in Pale. What happened in that "restaurant" (was it that?) is nearly world-wide known by now, I think. The first reactions are already made. From Beograd came the message that the government has decided to close the borders with BiH and cut the supply lines to the "Bosnian Serbs". I hope that they are smart enough to ask the UN if they would deploy another UNPROFOR army to take care of those controls, to avoid mis-interpretations of either sides in the near future. If this also means that soon the supply lines of the other warring parties will be cut of is a little unclear to my. I will see....... The security council has set another priority, the creation of "safe heavens" like now is being installed in Srebrenica, other towns which should have the same status, are planned to be Zepa (the have to be quick), Sarajevo, Bihac, Garazde and Tuzla. Lord Owen liked the idea, but didn't it so it coming in to practice so easily, who would supply the troops and what should they do, fight back ?. In his opinion the discussion of Cosic and Milosovic was much more effective. And CNN (I saw it on HTV) had a report that the talks of clean military airstrike are a little over the top, they showed some blunders of the Gulfwar, and asked themselves the question, if that has happened in the desert, what will happen in the mountains of BiH. They also found some "specialist" who admitted that without ground troops the airstrikes never could work. The responsible person, the official "specialist" said that all this was bullshit, it was a piece of cake, they know all the places and take them out whenever they want. Anyway the war is not over at this moment, and it will not be over for a long time, if I should believe some reactions of private persons today. Some body reacted, when I asked her what she thought what would happen, that she was more afraid at this moment for the Muslims than for the Serbs, she lives in Hercegovina. If it is true or not is not important, but that she is afraid is the problem. Is makes it more and more clear. Around news time I found Banja Luka (and BG1) television again on my television set, suddenly I see why I was so surprised yesterday, I am looking at a totally other Bosnian Serbia as the items HTV and the other world systems pick out. Most remarkable are the picture they show in the news when they speak of cities from which they don't have video material or recent video material. Those pictures show more often unharmed cities in the sun shines (pictures as how the situation use to be you have the feeling or clever made picture of now a day, since in most of the shown cities it is harm to photograph around the destruction. The film they use of Sarajevo is fantastic, totally unharmed high houses and nice houses at the a green hill side. Sorry I am just telling what I see. The commercials, for Diet material and bio medicines, an anti smoke cigarette ash box and for metal storage constructions (they first show three cupboards were filled with riffles and ammunition, honest, and than cupboards and other storage materials with other stuff) I saw were if possible more childies as the commercials in the beginning (some still) when I cam to Croatia. But overall what is remarkable is the amount of none war related items in the news (also on Croatian HTV, by the way). And the almost none excising reactions on what happened in the world on political level. Long items on a new gear box made in Banja Luka and buildings programs. Further more two documentaries about the Hungarian people in Volvodina and the Albanians in Kosovo. After that there was some kind of a family quiz and suddenly the station was out of the air again. When such a thing happens at the moment you are, at least I am, immediately thinking that it, the intervention, has started. MENGE TAG SVENSKA, that is hopefully Swedish and should mean thank you a lot Sweden, or rather the Swedish people involved in the humanitarian concert for the wounded children in Croatia. The television hosts who introduced the item by saying that dispite the fact that nearly every day shells still hit Zadar (in the last night again), the words is not talking anymore about the war in Croatia, it is no front-page news anymore and that was therefore good that Sweden hadn't forget the children in Croatia. Ones again after such a remark I want to stress the need that somehow the UN should overtake the wounds of the war, the possibility is that it otherwise ends up in a kind of propaganda war to get most of the humanitarian aid. You notice this ongoing fear that suddenly the trucks with aid wouldn't drive again or only through Croatia to BiH. I don't know how often I have heard the argument that all this help will be over soon. It paralyses the thought of people for the future, what will happen when it is all over ? The children of Zadar and Biograd are playing war during the day. As an introduction of an item about the night shelling you could see what the see on television and hear from their older brother. Just like the children you see in Sarajevo playing the reality in between the shellings. They play with wooden guns and in shelters made out of the broken houses and the stones which are laying all around the place after the shellings. Imagine this picture "a house, totally shot in pieces, only the part of the walls are still standing and sprayed on one of this walls: THE RAMONES"...... 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. 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. 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