Nachricht Nummer : 413 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 38 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.comlink.de (Wam) Betrifft : Zagreb Diary on 17 February, 1994 Kopienempfänger : /REG/NEWS/DIARY/WAM, /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN, /SOC/CULTURE/BOSNA-HERZGVNA, /SOC/CULTURE/CROATIA, /SOC/CULTURE/YUGOSLAVIA Erstellungsdatum : 18.02.1994 10:25:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary 17 February, 1994 Dobar dan, In the morning Zoran came by to have an interview with me for ARKzin, as he said so nice yesterday "I have the order to make interview with you". The last question was if I believed that the airstrikes would take places. The answer was basically no on the bases of 2 years experiences, but it also could be serious this time, again based on the same experiences. After using the threat of airstrikes more times now than I have fingers on my hand, simply they have to do it to make people believe that they are not only joking. To most likely scenario would probably be that at the last moment a good excuse will be found to call it all off. Further on we discussed a bit more about the implications it if it would take place after all. Especially in Zagreb, since we all know that Zagreb is well in range of the big guns near the Sava, it has been proofed just a few month ago, when a rocket landed not far away from the airfield. I said that it is most probably safer in Pakrac. If you listen to our conversations you will find out how cynical we all are or have become. For the first time a cease fire in Sarajevo seem to hold and not broken before it even came into existence (the story was always that when people in Sarajevo heard about a new cease fire they immediately start to by and gather every food they good get, and water and went in hiding) and we not really can believe it yet. It is nothing more than a re-arrangement of the guns and the troops, somebody said. Look another said their will be a spring offensive from the BiHarmija troops and when the Bosnian Serbs and HVO move in position in time it will look like that the BiHarmija is the only army which likes to fight in BiH and the others want peace, but when the offensive comes they can smash the "attacker". And than the news came that the Bosnian Serbs are really going to remove all their big guns from the hills around Sarajevo, it wasn't the peace meeting from the Olympic committee which pull the trigger, they were this week in Split for a peace mission. But the decision from the Russians, who are more or less considered as allies of the Serbs, that also they were agree with the proposed NATO air strikes. It was said that UNPROFOR will take care that BiHarmija will not change their positions (an UNHCR spokesman accused BiHarmija 2 days ago for moving their guns in a better position during this cease fire) and under UNPROFOR control (monitoring) all the guns, tanks and other weaponry will be brought back to the former JNA barracks in Sarajevo or at least 20 Km away from the city), from where in came in the first place. Karadzic, always good for some heavy reactions on such moments improved himself this time by saying that he was not impressed by the threat and that they, the Serbs, will smash and break the NATO troops, this will be the war from David and Goliath and the whole world know how David destroyed Goliath. He said that before the messages came that the Bosnian Serbs start to withdraw their army. Talking about Olympic games, it seem that on the famous mountain Jahorina near Sarajevo, the people from Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia Serbia and Serbia Krajina are organising their own "alternative Olympic games", since they are expelled from the official games. This is according to a spokesman their way to honour Sarajevo '84. Also in Croatia the situation is still quiet, no shelling what so ever on any Croatian city or village today, unbelievable but true. So maybe, maybe the peace in Croatia finally has come, would it be possible to write "war is over", but with capitals. I was reading the translation of the Vreme article about Dzakula (a pity that we don't get the english translation from Vreme for free any more as we use to get) this afternoon, "A Serb Leader without land". Most of the facts I knew, problem is that I never can 100 % figure at what he role was during the fighting, both during the small fights between Croatian Special Police and Serbs from mainly the local SDS (Serbian Democratic Party) in the beginning of March '91 (so before even the war in Slovenia started) as well as during the real war between August and December '91 in this area. I heard different version about it and about the activities of his friends, also involved in the top of the West- Slovenian SDS. Clear in this story is that at different time moments in '91 an enormous chaos was hanging in the air and people had to make decision in split seconds. Lot's of the people who went to the "other side" seems to have go there in a kind of psychosis of fear based on rumours, propaganda and people who already started to run. Some people I met in the southern part of the sector told me already the simular stories, they were more or less pushed by their "own people" to join them in the run south, which later on ended in a kind of exodus from Western Slavonia to the Baranja area. New was that the big push forwards of HV into Pakrac, which was described to me by people in the "Croatian" part of Pakrac seems to be organised partly by the sudden (ordered) withdrawal of JNA troops and Serbian fighting groups (described in Vreme as criminals from the jails in Beograd). 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. 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