Nachricht Nummer : 377 Übertragungszeit : 4 min 8 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.comlink.de (Wam) Betrifft : Zagreb Diary on 11 January, 1993 Kopienempfänger : /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN Erstellungsdatum : 11.01.1994 22:41:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary 11 January, 1994 Dobar dan, "Feral Tribune" came out yesterday with a photo on the front page of two running soldiers from one or an others special unit, the first one is of course Viktor Ivancic and the second Krpina (their faces are as always in feral tribune has been montage into an original picture), Krpina is the high officer who threaten Zoran Ostric from ARK some months ago that he would organise that he, Zoran, would be mobilised, would be send to the front line, and shot in the back when he tried to escape from there. Under the picture stands "Pazi ledja", with could be translated as "watch your back". The first inner page a list of ways how to stop "Feral Tribune" from being published, with the effects and contra reactions. The story is not over yet. Vesna, my girlfriend and editor from ARKzin, has a hard time, though, something which has happened to Viktor could also happen to her, she thinks. It would, as stood in the press-release from Feral Tribune, by oil on the international fire who says that the press freedom in Croatia is limited. The last two days the news in Croatia was very focused on what happened in that nice castle near Bonn were Tudjman and Izetbegovic were meeting to discuss peace proposals for BiH and especially to stop the fighting between Croats and Muslims. They started at Sunday evening, due to the shelling of the airport in Sarajevo Izetbegovic couldn't leave the town before and the whole meeting had to be delayed for one day. Tudjman was rather optimistic before he went to Bonn, at this meeting we will present a new peace plan (basically he proposed a confederation between Croatia and BiH (except the part of BiH under control of the Bosnian Serbs)) and we will solve the problems between Muslims and Croats, he said in Croatia before he left. Izetbegovic, interviewed at arriving in Bonn was a lot less positive. When Tudjman came back he lost a lot of his original optimistic, his plan was obvious not immediately excepted (Izetbegovic called it interesting, but was a little surprised and had to study a bit better), although that wasn't said with so many words, never the less he said that some positive steps were achieved. HSLS, the liberal and biggest opposition party (if there would be elections at this moment, the different between HSLS and HDZ (the party of Tudjman, which have about 80% of the seats in parliament) would be a lot smaller that it is at the moment) attack Tudjman on the fact that according to the constitution such offers as a confederation can be made by the president, especially without discussing it first with the parliament, as it happened now. Even when HDZ has the absolute majority and every proposal from Tudjman mostly likely will be passing the parliament without any big problem that don't gave the president the right to break the constitution, was more or less the message. Also yesterday started the meeting of the 16 leaders of the NATO countries in Brussels. Already yesterday they made clear that NATO is ready to assist with airstrikes in Bosnia, especially when the so-called "safe heavens" are not that safe as they should be according to the UN resolutions. And since the wish in that resolution and the reality on the ground are very much in conflict with each other it is well possible that we will soon be confronted with this airstrikes. Some Dutch free-lance journalists passed by in the afternoon, he had brought together with somebody else help ( a small truck full) to the refugee camp in Gasinci. It was their first trip down here and they were a bit confused of what they had seen and heard in the refugee camp and on their way through Croatia. They of course were full of the stories that in refugee camps humanitarian aid was disappearing. Especially in Gasinci the rumours among the refugees are there since the beginning. One of those stories is f.e. that half of the furniture which should have been delivered to the wooden houses, which the Dutch Red Cross has build in the last winter ended up in the shops in Djakovo (a town nearby). In the past a campleader was sacked and it was proofed that he and his family made profit with humanitarian aid, how much and how frequent is still unknown. I am sure that some of the aid disappears, therefor I never trust local NGO's, town councils and campleaders who say that even the smallest piece of aid will come to those who need it the most. A year ago an very high official of HVO told me that what ever would happen they always will support and help the Muslim communities in Bosnia. I don't know if the person is still working at the same place and has the same title, but a fact is that his department is one of the biggest hurdles to take for Humanitarian organisations to get permission to drive through HVO controlled area in order to deliver aid in Muslim (BiHArmija) controlled area's. And even when organisations have those permissions it is still a big question if the HVO military wing let's them through. Rumours about aid disappearing are every where, and especially in refugee camps were lot of people have nothing to do you will hear the stories, also that the camp leading is spreading the aid wrongly and more of those things. It is hard to say if it is true or not. If the International Community took over the responsibility like f.e. the Danish have done in the camp in Kutina this things could change. Never forget that most of the refugees in the camps are Muslims and most of the campleaders are Croatian. Since the war between Croats and Muslim started in central Bosnia this situation in the camps didn't became any better. But their biggest problem for the Dutch people was that the situation was a lot more complicated than they thought when they came here, they looked a lot if a their fundaments were taken away from them. In such moment I like to make their confusion only a little bit bigger. The result was that after 2 hours talking they suddenly said that they started to understand a bit of what was going on, but that it was a lot more complex than what they though. 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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