Nachricht Nummer : 83
Übertragungszeit : 3 min 38 sec
Nachricht von    : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ZER.sub.org
Betrifft         : Zagreb Diary 9 May, 1993
Erstellungsdatum : 09.05.1993 23:23:00 S+2

Realname: Wam Kat

Zagreb Diary 9 May, 1993

Dobar Dan,

Since a few days I live from nothing, that means I have no money anymore, 
due to Vesna's illness we spend a little more than planned for this month, so 
the 1000 DEM from which I hoped in January that I would be able to live from 
until the end of May is vanished. And not only me but most of NeXus also are 
living on borrowed money, the regular gifts are not coming in as we were use 
to. Let's hope for the best, otherwise we have to start to survive on the 
humanitarian aid we rather would like to spread out to those who need it more.

Place of the Republic, Place of the victims of fascism, Boulevard of the 
proletariat, and more of those nice names you can find on any map of Zagreb 
which is made before 1992, all those street and square still exist, but if you 
address a letter to those old addresses you can be sure it wouldn't arrive. The 
called different now. Anyway most people get use to it, some old people forget 
it, but it is them forgiven, but when young people name the places by their old 
name the show there resistance against the Croatian government. I know 
enough people for whom the place of the big Croats, or how would you 
translate it ("Trg Hrvatskin Velikana") will be forever the place of the victims of 
fascism. It is just a matter of time they say and the name will be come back.

On that square today the remembering of those victims of fascism (of the 
WWII), there were a lot more people than last year. Remembering victims of 
the fascist regime in Croatia on a moment that a SKY reporter in Vitez says 
that the fights between Muslims and Croats in that part of BiH are basically 
between the "ultra fascist" (his words) HOS militia and the about 1500 foreign 
soldiers in BiH armija and their new born Bosnian Muslim extremists. Strange 
remark if you think that last year the BiH HOS commander was killed by a 
local MUP (police) road block near Mostar and the secret explanation of this 
killing (according to some people I talked with months ago) was that HOS 
collaborated to much with the Muslims.
 
The area in and around Mostar is however now a new battle field, which is not 
anymore some street fights and some sporadic (as reporters say so under 
cooled if they report from Vitez) gun and mortar fire. If you see the pictures 
and hear the stories by telephone I can imagine that some people (Croats) are 
more afraid for the Muslims than for the Serbs in that region. The last weeks 
most of the fighting's in that region were between Croats and Muslims and 
the Bosnian Serb stronghold at the television tower above the city was quiet. 
You notice from this saying how fast meanings can change if the situation of 
war comes closer by. All this of course makes me clear that the joke I made 
today about the fact that the war will be over soon, just at the moment that I 
was getting used to it, is not so coming out, for the time being it look more 
that I will have to learn a lot more about war.

What precisely is happening down there is hard to figure out, the different 
news agencies in Zagreb are not particular on one line at this moment. The 
stories from Muslim sides are, you would say of course different than the 
Croatian interpretation. Clear is that if you follow both the stories that on each 
place both of the forces were attack by the others and needed to defend itself.

Not through all this violence, but through the quiet parts of Croatia this week a 
group of peace runners will go, they left from Ljubljana yesterday and entered 
Croatia. This Peace Run of Chi Chinoy (if I write his name right, probably not) 
will be here in Zagreb in a few days and I am wondering how big the 
manifestation here will be. From what we heard from Ljubljana it was relative 
big, what wonders me is that the peace runners didn't take up contact with the 
peace groups who are active here, but maybe I overlooked the post.

The waiting had some result today, the UN send 50 more monitors, the first 
who arrived in the Zepa were not allowed to continue in the cars into the town 
they had to walk. You can imagine that the decision of the safety council to 
send 50 monitors was received with a lot of hilarity, after the strong words 
from the last week. 50 more people who will write down what every body is 
doing and how everybody is killing each other. Most of the UNPROFOR 
commanders on the ground, as it calls, also reacted a little confused, the 
national British hero, colonel Bob (from who the rumour goes that UN offered 
him a job) was surprisingly a little more soft in his reaction than we are used 
from him. 

Some of his colleagues made absolute clear that they will take the order when 
they are send to them, but that they are absolute not happy with the decision 
of the safety council.  They are openly also not so happy with the discussion 
about lifting the arm embargo, there are already enough weapons they say, on 
all sides, we should get less rather than more.

"There is something wrong with the world today.........
........... we are living on the edge"

Bok I Mir from Zagreb,

							Wam

P.S. I thank all people who reacted on my ,message in which I ask to send a 
short reply to show us were you received that message.  We have received 
replies from all over the globe, but still would like to ask you if you haven't 
replied yet to do it. We would like to use all this replies to show towards 
possible funders that we are indeed reaching out to a lot of people.

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