Nachricht Nummer : 363 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 42 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.comlink.de (Wam) Betrifft : Zagreb Diary on 31 December, 1993 Kopienempfänger : /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN Erstellungsdatum : 01.01.1994 23:49:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary 31 December, 1993 Dobar dan, Still the last day of the year inside and in bed most of the time. Outside slowly I started to hear more and more recognisable sounds, bang, a second, bang, a second, bang, half a second, bang, quarter of a second, bang, bang, bang. An automatic riffle which shots a round. Besides a long lists of detective and war films there was a popfestival of Croatian rockbands, which was recorded some days ago. All the famous and less famous bands made their appearings After a few bands they made the announcement from stage that there were 40 children from Vukovar in the hall. The crowd reacted with a loud "Vukowar, Vukowar, Vukowar" and then they went on to the next band. This have changed since I have come here 20 months ago. I remember all those strong war songs in the beginning, they disappeared from the face of the Croatian screen. In those days there was a band with the top hit "Cavoglavi", that is a village from which they came just a little North of Split, just South of the Krajina. The defenders of that town made a hit song and a nice video clip in camouflage uniform with the gun and things, running through the bushes and the streams, and so. Later the singer started to sing love song but that didn't worked out so well. At this festival a group from Zagoria in their own nice dialect made on the melody of that tophit another, with as main line that people in Zagoria are getting so drunk from wine that they lay under the table, or something simular. So if they could do that with some more song, we maybe sing the war away, although in the area's were this is happening there is not a real war. Dirty Theatre (something Kasaliste) is also one of the more popular bands, they were also one of the first rock bands in the near past who made a more or less nationalistic or rather home country loving rock song, now their song about Slavonia is the big hit already for months. "Do you like Croatia", "Dynamo, Dynamo" the crowd reacted and the nice rock song about Dynamo was hitting the stage, include a part of the B.B.B. (Bad Blue Boys (the UNPROFOR always think that B.B.B. on the walls is meant against them)) hit the stage for some more fire-works. Than the town went bananas and the hell broke loose outside, if at this moment some rockets and grenade would have come down nobody would have notice it. Not much, but still you could hear the remarkable sound of automatic riffle through the popping of normal fire works, especially a guy around the block like his gun a lot and let his gun went of every 5 minutes, until he is out of ammunition. Somewhere behind the high buildings somebody or rather somebodies are making light traces sign's in the air, which remind me at last year new year's evening in Medjugorje. Outside they are wasting a lot of money at the moment and it looks and sounds more like f.e. Sarajevo than like Zagreb. It goes on for about half an hour and than suddenly it is slowly going down. The pop festival goes on and band after band, among one from which the singer more and more undressed him self on stage until he only stood with his slips and his jeans half way his legs, making semi sexual movement under the legs of his guitar player, just to give you an impression how free Croatian young television is. Just at that moment it shows in the top of the screen that their was general alarm in Zupanja. Their fire-work will go on for awhile, but that would be sarcastic. The last day of the year I was mostly busy to finish all those unwritten entries of the diary of the last ten days. You suppose to say something wonderful on this occasion but what to say more than what Tudjman said yesterday, it wasn't a bad year, but it didn't give the peace we were all hoping for. I can say that easily sitting in Zagreb, the change that a grenade will fall on my roof is next to nothing. So nothing to be afraid off. In fact I am already living in a kind of peace and when I go home, to the Netherlands f.e. I don't have to fear anything. But is that real, when I saw today on Croatian television what is coming up their in Russia I am not so sure that we have seen the end of it all when the war stops here. But maybe we have learned something from this, who knows, they keep saying that after every war, and some how they still have to happen again, so it is indeed a question. No honest it is just another day, nothing special. I hoped that the embassy of the peoples republic of China, just behind Vesna's house would have a nice firework this evening, like all the Chinese in the Netherlands, but they keep quiet, they probably keep themselves to their own Chinese calendar and their new year is some time from now. In Sarajevo they probably also have firework tonight and I think that they rather would have a quiet night for a change. Nearly 21 months they and other cities in BiH have it every night fire-works and also every day, here in Zagreb it may seems fun to look at, but down there it is the real thing as they say, the town were it all is happening, let's hope next year this time there is something totally else happening there. 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