Nachricht Nummer : 82 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 42 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ZER.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 8 May, 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 08.05.1993 23:58:00 S+2 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 8 May, 1993 Dobar Dan, Waiting, waiting, waiting for what, every time that some helicopters come over, and there are a lot of them the last week, you think it is starting and somehow you expect the sirens going of a minute later. What will happen. All that war talk and strong words, a week ago Karadzic signed the peace plan and now....... Now the NATO is having a major exercise in the Mediterranean area, I don't know how many ship, aeroplanes and troops are brought together, to practice, what you may ask ..... you can guess ........ Zagreb is a nice city, people are watching the television and concerned about what will happen in Santa Barbara, outside you hear the big city Saturday evening noise, fast and noisy motors, cars in overdrive and people who loudly say good-bye to their friends. I am worried however, today Astrid, Elu and Joseph should have left for Tuzla (just heard the news that again shellings on Tuzla have been taken place), but up to now they are waiting, like they have been doing the whole week. Some where in the evening they really will go, they hope they can connect up with the transports going from Metkovic, which will leave tomorrow somewhere. Other people reacted that they also would like to join their trip to Tuzla, of course they were also afraid of what will happen, but the possibility to see their relatives down there was still stronger than the fear for all those things to come. Driving in an organised UNPROFOR convoy gives something of a promise that they would go on a real suicide mission. When she told me about how it used to be you start to understand the destruction of lives, due to this war. She use to go with her cousins to walk in the forest, a forest which is no longer safe anymore. Reading them fairy-tales and nice stories. Everybody has so it own stories, it's own memories. At this moment there are 100.000 refugees in the town and from 3 sides it is impossible to enter it. But it is not as worst as the other from UN declared safe heavens, Zepa seems to burn for a part and Gorazde (received by hamradio) is been attacked again today. I heard rumours that Karadzic would have promised that his army wouldn't take one more centimetre until the referendum, so it is an open question, has the referendum already taken place, did he forget to tell it to Mladic. Also from Travnik came the messages that Muslim (BiH Armija) and Croats (HVO) are fighting together against new attacks from Bosnian Serbian side. From Vitez, however, they reported that the hostilities between the two groups (Muslims and Croats) are still not over. The new British UNPROFOR commander (replacement of the famous colonel Bob, we will miss him in the evening news) in Vitez gave his own opinion about lifting the arm embargo for BiH, he said "That any more arm brought to this region is no good news." Micro (SunCokret's computer expert) and Jasmina went to Oslobodjenje today, since I have installed all the hard and software they haven't used it yet and we noticed how many people abroad would love to get material from them. After his visit Micro wrote we that he couldn't imagine that a newspaper like that, you should know it use to be the biggest newspaper from BiH (and probably still is) was working under those conditions. You know he wrote me that they are typing their text in the Editor from DOS. It was much worst 10 days ago, they had no computer at all, only a few old type writer. The real layout work is done in an office (it think not more than 25 m2) on the other side of the town, were 7 people work, as sardines in a can, at the Macintosh machines. Every text get type in again, and when I talk with the main layouter, he told me how good it would be to get the text in by modem and how much hours in would safe if not every thing have to be typed in again. Koca, koca, koca, after it became a hit in Croatia, by a theatre group from Rijeka, "the best of the best", koca (hair) will be shown within a few days in his film version on Beograd television. It is a strange feeling, watching the television from the "other side". Just if you are doing something illegal. The last remark of today has to do with the strange situation a foreigner always have to deal with if he or she lives abroad. Namely the fact that everybody all ways is counting with the situation that you will leave ones. Even after a year I still have that feeling that people look at me with that intention, in the back of their minds you see them thinking, but when will he leave. Or more broadly when will all this foreigners leave. It is hard since I don't look upon live that way, I don't know when I will leave or how long I will stay, to turn the thing around. Neither did I knew that in the last years, how long will a certain job, a certain action that up. You start it and it grows and we will see. In the case here this feeling is often a kind of barrier for co-operation. I have often asked what I should do to proof them that I mean it serious, that I am not standing as it were with one foot on the train to leave. I don't know what to do "at home" anyway as long as this problem is these countries hasn't been solved. It is a bit what Franklin D. Roosevelt said "When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger". I have chosen to be here. In this case this "anywhere" is even within my own continent, in a country which I knew rather well, so it is not a-far-from-my-bed-show, but indeed just around the corner. 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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