Nachricht Nummer : 408 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 43 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.comlink.de (Wam) Betrifft : Zagreb Diary on 13 February, 1994 Kopienempfänger : /REG/NEWS/DIARY/WAM, /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN, /SOC/CULTURE/BOSNA-HERZGVNA, /SOC/CULTURE/CROATIA, /SOC/CULTURE/YUGOSLAVIA Erstellungsdatum : 16.02.1994 15:52:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary 13 February, 1994 Dobar dan, It is carneval Sunday, in my hometown the people making themselves ready for the big parade and the coming days the whole town will be upside down, but I had my carneval and am now reading the latest orders for the UNPROFOR and other UN personal in sector West concerning the possible reactions of the people of the Serbian Krajina part of the sector after the Americans and French will have done their airstrikes. In Daruvar it seems that the offices of UNPROFOR in the town have been closed for the moment and all personal is brought to the armed compound. This morning some APC's moved through the town (Pakrac) and left over the checkpoint to the other side to be placed near to the UNPROFOR checkpoints there. UN personal operating in the Serbian Krajina part of the sector, and we are official also UN personal, have to cut down on the movements in the coming days, we are not allowed to drive with less than 2 cars at the same time and per car there has to be at least 2 people (we have no cars on that part of the sector). Further on we have to have our bullet free jackets and helmets on all the time and our protection gear (guns) near to us (we neither have to jackets, neither the helmets and for sure not guns). Last but not least we have to notify every 5 minutes during our movements where we are and give central command notice when we are reaching our destination (we have no radio equipment and shouting wouldn't help much). To be honest I don't believe much in firstly the ultimatum, that it will be kept and secondly in possible reaction from the Serbian Krajina part of the sector. It all sounds a big paranoid to me, the experiences on the other side are very good, at least in the Pakrac part (in the Southern part it seems to be a little more problematic, but that has probably more to do with the new militia chief there) and I hardly can see that this would suddenly change, still you never know and official we have to follow the UNPROFOR sector commander's orders. Although when I asked last week the deputy commander how serious we had to take this orders he made clear that they are basically for the military UN staff and not for us, we are considered as the civil Humanitarian UN department of the UN family. On other places the preparations are continuing. In Beograd it seems that a lot of the diplomats from the US embassy has been evacuated back to the States and also arrangements are made to get other US civilians out of Serbia if they want. Also the embassies of Germany, Britannia and my home county the Netherlands seems to have made simular arrangements. The office of UNHCR in Banja Luka also got the order to close down, but the rumours are that the local Bosnian Serbian authorities made it impossible for them to leave the town. Since a small cease fire violation this week the cease fire in Sarajevo seems to hold, on Friday the Bosnian Serbian Army has again brought 5 big guns back to their barracks controlled by the UNPROFOR. In total there must be now 13 big guns back in the Serbian barracks and on BiHarmija they have now removed 5 artillery pieces. Nevertheless the political position of the Bosnian Serbs seems to much to change, so far we can follow it from here they have said that they wouldn't change their politics because of the threat from NATO (it is not the first time that such a threat is made). Their commander has said that they would remove any more big guns if UNPROFOR don't can control their "enemy". Sir Michael Rose, the new UNPROFOR commander in BiH and Admiral Boord from AFSOUTH (Allied Forces Southern Europe) had a meeting today in Zagreb to co-ordinate the co-operation between UNPROFOR and NATO. Sir Rose said during the press conference that most of the cease-fire violations in the last days in Sarajevo were coming from the BiHarmija side. But real news comes only into Pakrac via the electronic network, neither on the Croatian controlled, neither on Serbian Krajina controlled side of the sector are people watching Serbian television and so all we know we know from the Croatian television and German radio. Here in Croatia it seems to be totally changed, the visit last week of 14 Serbian journalists (which was prepared for months) is followed by an official visit from Serbian government and that is a break through, since for the first time official Serbian and Croatian politician in power have met eachother without the peace mediators. But I can't say that this political moves are carried by the whole population from Croatia. Living here at the former front-line the people are reacting totally different on all this sudden changes. It is hard to change your feeling from enemy to friend over night. In the afternoon I did something totally different, namely going to swim in Hotel Termal in Daruvar, they have a nice hot water swimming pool there, like the one in Lipik which totally destroyed. Together with the Muppets, which also came over from the "other side" to have a propel bath we had a great time, especially when it started to snow and we jumped out of the hot water to have a real snow ball fight in the cold. After that we went with a big part of the group to see a film, but I can tell you "the last action hero" from that talking bunch of muscles is not particular something which we had in mind........ 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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