Nachricht Nummer : 415 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 43 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ztn.zer.de (Wam) Antworten an : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.comlink.de Betrifft : Zagreb Diary on 18 February, 1994 Kopienempfänger : /REG/NEWS/DIARY/WAM, /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN, /SOC/CULTURE/BOSNA-HERZGVNA, /SOC/CULTURE/CROATIA, /SOC/CULTURE/YUGOSLAVIA Erstellungsdatum : 25.02.1994 12:05:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary 18 February, 1994 Dobar dan, Yesterday I wanted to go to a pressconference from UNPROFOR about the bombing of a "green market" place in Sarajevo at the beginning of this month. Yesterday they wanted to announce the results of the researches they have been doing in the last week trying to find out who actually shot the grenade. For that reason they had send 5 of the best explosive specialists to Sarajevo to look at the grenade hole in order to figure out from where it came and what type of weapon it was. Most people I know living in a warzone just look at such a hole and roughly can say which type it was and from where it may have come. Over the last 2 years I also learn at least a bit of this knowledge, I mean I have seen grenade holes, heavy guns firing and incoming grenades fire enough in the last 48 months. I really don't know who has trained this UNPROFOR specialists and I also don't know much of the hole on that market place, but it is clear for me and a lot of other people that they either don't deserve to be called specialists or that they are specialists, but that some where the order came not to talk. In any case they couldn't answer the question from where it came and who has fired it. They said that it was a 120 mm mortar fired from a position between the lines of Bosnian Serb Army and BiHarmija, so both could have done it. What we know however is that it was the reason for the NATO ultimatum towards the Bosnian Serbs. Up to Sunday 12.00 o'clock they have the time to remove their heavy guns from the hills around Sarajevo. President Clinton has made clear again yesterday on television that the ultimatum still stands, as long as not all the weapons are removed the threat that the airstrikes will take place is still open. A high ranking UNPROFOR officer complained today that the Bosnian Serb Army don't allow UNPROFOR to guard the heavy weapons which the hand over with armed soldiers, only a handful un-armed soldiers are now guarding the weapons. British Tornado's and other heavy fighter jets have started patrolling more intensively above BiH. The Italian president has visit the NATO base in Italy and every thing still looks if it is going to happen, but we have seen that before. It some times looks a bit like, "this time me are really serious, we warn you before, but this time it is real". Today however Karadzic has agreed that the Bosnian Serb Army will remove all the weapons, after he had a talk with the Russian envoy towards former Yugoslavia, Mr. Curkin, who promised him that Russia will send UNPROFOR soldiers to Sarajevo, which will control the cease-fire. The Bosnian UN ambassador Mohammed Sacirbej, who is in Israel at the time reacted that the BiH government is not at all happy with this arrangement between the Bosnian Serbs and Russia. According to him the Russians are not as un-biased as most of the other UNPROFOR troops. In the main time the situation in Sarajevo is quiet, for the first time you see people going on the streets normally and not much cease-fire violations have taken place in the last days. In other spots of BiH however the fights are getting more intensive. HVO have asked UNPROFOR to come as soon as possible to the Usora area, where their army is under heavy attack from the Bosnian Serbian Army. Also the fights in Mostar goes on and since 10 days the Bihac pocket in the North, were it was, beside fights between two "Muslims" parties, relative quiet the fight has burned up again. Hamradio operators are sending out messages that they are under attack again from the Bosnian Serbian Army. In the afternoon a drove back to Pakrac with a Belgium girl who came as a volunteer last week. The journalists from an Australian radio station, who promised to come with us has changed his mind this morning and joins a convoy to Tuzla. Now the situation some how has cold down a bit and according to most people around here the airstrikes will not happen the convoys who were held up for some days started to drive again this morning. On the way to Pakrac it started snowing again. And by the time we came to the sector the world was back in UNPROFOR colours. Today it is also precisely a year ago that the Darovar agreement was signed. The major force behind this agreement was the commander of UNPROFOR Civil affairs Mr. Fisher, who managed last year direct talks between Serbian and Croatian authorities in the sector. In the agreement all things as using the road and trainlines by both sides was organised, as well as the returning of the displaced people to their houses. This agreement however was made as a kind of gentlemen agreement between persons and not between official representatives of the two different sides. Directly afterwards Dzakula, who was the major signer of the Serbian side was thrown out of his position. It is also 2 weeks ago that the same person was arrested (taken from the street) in Beograd. Pakraci List, the local newspaper of Pakrac (Croatian Side) published there for today a long article about Dzakula and the agreement, which never was empowered. It is the first time that I found in this newspaper an article about Dzakula, which was objective and didn't describe him only as "war criminal", for the first time they also mentioned that he is so far the only Serb leader who is willing to talk with "the other side". 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. Financial support for Grassroot relief work in Croatia or BiH can be send to Kollektief Rampenplan (atn. 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