Nachricht Nummer : 302 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 26 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.zer.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 10 November, 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 12.11.1993 09:39:00 W+1 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 10 November, 1993 Dobar dan, "Never, never, I said, never be clever" Some line from Herman Brood and his Wild Romance from a song Jantje send me about half year ago as a kind of good wish. Never be clever, never think that you know how it works, how the complexity of the people's feeling are influenced by the war. Just some days ago, at Saturday evening I was explaining somebody that I was sure, or made sure to believe, in the last 19 months that all people who wanted to leave Sarajevo would have been out by now. Maybe a few hundred still would like to go, but most want to stay in the town, in a part of the country what they still consider as their BiH. How destroyed the city may look, how the divided it is at the moment, with all the local militia's fighting their own war and putting up their own road blocks, still people are considering it as one Sarajevo, one Sarajevo from all the 24 or more nations who lived there. But the situation seems to have changed in the last months, more and more rumours about thousands and thousands who want to leave the city, yesterday rather than today. More and more people have given up and street interviews of foreign television teams show people who say that they don't any longer believe in all those nice words said about Sarajevo. They want to get out, start another life somewhere else. I spend today to read a lot of old information which was still on the net and/or on my table. Which is extra important, since on Monday the Croatian has stopped with the English "Afternoon report". That was always a time that you could see at least what the big networks, SKY and CNN, had to say about the situation here. One of the stories really hit me, basically because I hadn't heard anything from it so far and it is already going since the being of September. The International Peace & Relief Team, a group of pacifists who went to Sarajevo last year, got via their channels a complete field hospital from some organisation in South Africa, beside that the South African state paid the transport of the containers to Triest and IGASE (a Muslim relief organisation active in Croatia and BiH had organised the storage in Croatia). The goal of this Hospital will be Zenica, other places like Mostar have been discussed, but the WHO specialists said that Zenica needs it the most. Since the beginning of September this Hospital however is laying in Ploce in South Dalmatia. Due to mis-communications (letters which never arrived) and mis-interpretations (thinking it were 20 tons containers, rather than 8 tons, which they really are) the hospital is not yet transported by UNHCR or UNPROFOR to it's destination. I was surprised that a story like that never hit the Croatian newspapers up to now and it makes you think what in the hell is more laying in those warehouses. It is clear that most of the warehouses in Croatia are rather full and that not much is really getting any further at the moment. Hopefully the fight's will cool down a bit in the next weeks since that material needs to move. ODPR (governmental office for displaced people and refugees) has problems, or let's say more problems than in the last months. The sudden waves of new refugees from central Bosnia, remember the border between BiH and Croatia was closed for almost a year (August '92), and not so many people came over, have bring back the old problems. The amount of refugees in Croatia is now almost more than 12% of the normal population (according a pressrelease of ODPR that means that Croatia has now the highest amount of refugees per number of inhabitants in the world). Again a little more than 1000 people are sleeping in tents and that at a moment that most people thought that the problem was solved during the last months of last year, when every where in the country in no-time refugee centres were build. The main problem this time is not how to feed all these people, which of course can be a problem soon, but how to keep all those people warm during the winter. For the first time since I am here ODPR has launched an international appeal for help via all the media in order to collect all kind of heather's for the winter. Okay, after a few days of only bad and negative information maybe it is good to write some positive things. First of all a reaction for those people out there who (again) think that every single inch of Croatia and BiH is in war, that is be far not the case, most inches in this area are in relative or better total peace (if you consider peace being the situation without bullets and other things flying around). No honestly don't worry, besides from some regular, daily, shelling on the Zadar region (a few grenade's and some times one or two missiles per day) there is no real un-safe area. Further on we have installed the 5th computer on ARK today, a special gift from Soros for ARKzin to be used for Email work. So shortly ARKzin will be using a lot more of the net. And last but surely not least tomorrow the Peace Circus will come. 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. Please notify me if you send or have send any donations. ## CrossPoint v2.1 ##