Nachricht Nummer : 298 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 25 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.zer.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 3 November, 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 03.11.1993 20:09:00 W+1 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 3 November, 1993 Dobar dan, "I am leaving on a jetplane, don't know when I will be back again" That song went through my head now Jasmina has leaves for Australia today and actually after she came by yesterday evening to say finally good-bye. This morning at 8:23 her aeroplane goes and than maybe tomorrow she will land in Sidney, her new (host) home town. Jasmina came as one of our first volunteers to the Savudrija camp. Young but full of energy. After spending months in Savudrija she came back to Zagreb in order to work on the office of Suncokret and in the board and that she did with so much fire that it looked some times if she was all over the place and knew everything. When she reads this, maybe, she is on the other side of the World, far away from cold Zagreb and colder BiH, although the war is still hot there. I hope she finds the time to take rest and distance to what happens over here. I know that we never will forget eachother, even we have met eachother a strange, special situation and hardly ever had the time to really talk with eachother. Always there was so much to tell eachother about "work" and "ideas". Jasmina and your family I hope that you can return soon back to a safe home land. Saying good-bye is part of the war, sometimes you don't take the time for it and you never see eachother again. But when people, like Jasmina now, but more friends from BiH, who went via Croatia to a third land, are leaving you feel a piece of BiH slipping through your fingers. Her father hopes to build up a new life in Australia, he don't believes that BiH ever will become what it use to be. He is not feeling Muslim enough to live in a Muslim state and her mother feels not enough Croat to live in Croat state. There house near Tuzla is now used as a kind of refugee centre, where they use to live with one family are now living nearly 20 people. In the few evenings we had together, during which we didn't spoke about Suncokret or crazy other ideas, she tried to explain me all about her Bosnia. About the culture, the songs, the stories. Stories which she never ever will forget even when she is going to the moon. I said to her at the door, we will hear from you soon, I can't imagine otherwise. And you want to study "Community development" over there, maybe they can learn something from you, since what Jasmina has been doing in the last one and half year was more the community development from books, it was living it. The story I wrote yesterday about the people on the way to Vukovar was not 100% correct. They knew they couldn't go all the way to their home town, but they agreed to have a meeting at the real checkpoint, for this case (about 1000 people came) the Russian had replace their checkpoint a few hundred meters west, by parking an APC on the way. Again the sex scandal in Sarajevo is mentioned in connection with the UNPROFOR. The Canadian soldiers should have went to a hotel in the Serbian controlled region, just outside the town and made use from female prisoners of the Serbian forces. In the past Mackenzie himself, who was the UNPROFOR commander in those days was accused as well, this time however he was only accused as commander in chief. In don't know if the story is true or false. In fact I still see no real different in UNPROFOR soldiers using female prisoners or female refugees, for whom they have to pay a fraction. After all that time it is still an not so open question if refugee women have a real free choice if they like to make easy some money for their children or other things. The biggest surprise of today is by far the new peace proposal from Tudjman about Serbia Krajina and even about BiH. It was for a moment if we were watching a cock laying eggs. Or rather asking ourselves why was did whole war in Croatia neccessary. I haven't yet seen the full text of his proposal, but the rough lines don't look so bad. Actual at the moment I was more interested in his view over Croatia and Krajina, than over BiH, so I haven't listen so well to BiH part. The piece with proposals and demand about Krajina let me be surprised, he was talking about a high form of autonomy for those areas and even offered to place the bi lingual city name plates back in the mixed region and more of those things. On such moment it is a pitty that I can't see Djakula, such proposal as this one I would love to discuss with him and try to find out what he thinks about it. Lot's of what I heard form Tudjman sounded very much like to things Djakula told me months ago. It is maybe the big break through we were all waiting for. But again who knows...... My planned house in Lipik didn't work out, the old lady who lived there decided this weekend not to go back to Zagreb and stay in Lipik, that could also be a new sign, more people who like to stay so near to the front-line, this lady has been driving up and down Zagreb since January last year and up to now she never trusted herself to stay. There are coming more. 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 ##