Nachricht Nummer : 358 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 47 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.comlink.de (Wam) Betrifft : Zagreb Diary on 27 December, 1993 Kopienempfänger : /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN Erstellungsdatum : 01.01.1994 18:19:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary 27 December, 1993 Dobar dan, In the early morning Greorg disappeared to Slavonski Brod, I advised him to take the road all the way over Virovitica and not via Pozega, it is about 100 Kilometres less, by the road their you have to take on your own risk. And since Greorg has in his pass that he is been thrown out after arrest in Kosovo of Serbia last year you can better be a bit further away than the cease-fire line, especially in those grey (pink) zones. I don't know who Krajina border patrols (or whatever he can come across with) really like to find out why he was expelled from Serbia and Montenegro last year (or rather out of new Yugoslavia or rather SiC (Serbia i Crna Gora (Montenegro in local language))). He was in Kosovo when the demonstrations took place for the freedom to use Albanian as languages on the schools and the police thought he was a journalists. Coming out of East Germany, this was the first demonstration he ever was on in his whole life and immediately was thrown in jail. Christmas is over and on the radio we heard that some officials around the world said that they think it is very difficult to stop the war in BiH. It is if they have listing to what Karadzic said some days ago, he claimed that Bosnian Serbs are now coming closer and closer to peace, but that the Muslim are moving in the opposite direction. If I follow those words back he admits that the intentions of the Bosnian Serbs were not peaceful so far. The first political defences I heard for the wars in this countries, coming from Serbian sides was that they had to attack, since they were threatened and the best defence is to attack, according army logic. Somehow I can follow the ideology that you can remain peaceful, even when you use weapons to defend your country (or rather you don't have to be pacifist to be against the war, you can use weapons to defend yourselves and still be against the war you are fighting (even believe that a lot of people "on the other side" are your friends). Wait I am a pacifist, I am against all forms of violence, at least I hope I am. But back to start it get a bit strange after 20 months to hear this things. 20 Months ago it for sure the Muslims who were greatly against any war in Yugoslavia and especially in BiH. Some Bosnian Serbs already had their fighting experiences in Croatia and HVO had already prepared themselves. The first fight between JNA and HVO already had taken place in Ravno near Dubrovnik. At that moment a totally peace-full Karadzic, he is defence himself since otherwise he would have been attacked, according the arguments and totally overrules all area's were HVO haven't prepared itself. Only in a small amount of cities outside that area the local territorial defence (formed often from Muslims, Croats and Serbs) can resists the war machine the rest get's run over and the world knows now what happened in those few months. If Karadzic would have said that "Serbs had always been in favour for peace (meaning even willing to defend it by force by attacking as first), but Muslims are moving more and more away from it" he would have followed the first statements and he was even right. But he didn't, if you have followed my philosophy you are invited to come over here and try to figure out how everything was in the first place, or rather what has happened here before it became this spaghetti of interests, which hardly can be unwrapped anymore, but seems to be a reason to keep on fighting, peaceful or not. Maybe it just become of the high temperature I stood up with this morning, the thermometer from David went over the 100 F and that seems to be over 37 C, but I am not sure. Sure is that I was ill, later today Goran told that a lot of people are ill in Zagreb so it would be some kind of virus. The at least released the tension a bit from being suddenly ill again and having high temperatures, I was already wondering if I got a terrible cold or worst or something. I decided to stay in bed and try if we could sweat it out in one day. But although the snow on the roof got dicker with the minute it had no real positive effect of the temperature in the room it seems to get colder and colder. So when Jojo and Sanja (bringing Little Boris and German Astrid along) came from Zagreb to see Pakrac before they go to Budapest around New Year Vesna insisted that we should go back with them to Zagreb in the evening to get in propel warm house and try to get ride of this "barking" and temperature. Jo brought dropjes (Dutch candies) and want to find out a lot about his new toy, a second hand Mac powerbook, so full proud he saw it to me and I updated him with the latest rumours from Pakrac. Astrid who never before have been in Pakrac. Back in Zagreb we heard on the news that it is in fact a good day for Macedonia, after Slovenia, Turkey, Bulgaria and the UK, also France has decided to recognize the republic. They are even planning to open an embassy there. After years suddenly all those countries have to expand their amounts of embassies to keep up with the new political reality. For the rest it was an evening of basically drinking some tea and getting as the hell in bed and sweating. It looks if I will miss the old years evening in Pakrac. They are planning to organise something for the youth from Pakrac that evening in our own cafe, Papage, and especially for that evening all the volunteers from Basque country who have been during the summer will come to Pakrac. Mir from somewhere in Hrvatska, 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 . 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. 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