Nachricht Nummer : 368 Übertragungszeit : 4 min 51 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.comlink.de (Wam) Betrifft : Zagreb Diary on 4 January, 1994 Kopienempfänger : /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN Erstellungsdatum : 04.01.1994 21:29:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary 4 January, 1994 Dobar dan, UNTSO (United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation June 1948 - To present), UNMOGIP (United Nations Military Observer Group in India andPakistan January 1949 - To present), UNEF I (First United NationsEmergency Force November 1956 - June 1967), UNOGIL (United NationsObservation Group in Lebanon June 1958 - December 1958), ONUC (UnitedNations Operation in the Congo July 1960 - June 1964), UNSF (UnitedNations Security Force in West New Guinea (West Irian) October 1962 -April 1963), UNYOM (United Nations Yemen Observation Mission July 1963- September 1964), UNFICYP (United Nations Peace- keeping Force inCyprus March 1964 - To present), DOMREP (Mission of the Representativeof the Secretary-General in the Dominican Republic May 1965 - October1966), UNIPOM (United Nations India-Pakistan Observation MissionSeptember 1965 - March 1966), UNEF II (Second United NationsEmergency Force October 1973 - July 1979), UNDOF (United NationsDisengagement Observer Force June 1974 - To present), UNIFIL (UnitedNations Interim Force in Lebanon March 1978 - To present), UNGOMAP(United Nations Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan April1988 - March 1990), UNIIMOG (United Nations Iran-Iraq Military ObserverGroup August 1988 - February 1991), UNAVEM I (United Nations AngolaVerification Mission I January 1989 - June 1991), UNTAG (United NationsTransition Assistance Group April 1989 - March 1990), ONUCA (UnitedNations Observer Group in Central America November 1989 - January1992), UNIKOM (United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission April 1991- To present), UNAVEM II (United Nations Angola Verification Mission II June1991 - To present), ONUSAL (United Nations Observer Mission in ElSalvador July 1991 - To present), MINURSO (United Nations Mission for theReferendum in Western Sahara September 1991 - To present), UNAMIC (United Nations Advance Mission in Cambodia October 1991 - March 1992),UNPROFOR (United Nations Protection Force March 1992 - To present),UNTAC (United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia March 1992 - 24 September 1993), UNOSOM I (United Nations Operation in Somalia I April1992 - April 1993), ONUMOZ (United Nations Operation in MozambiqueDecember 1992 - To present), UNOSOM II (United Nations Operation inSomalia II May 1993 - To present), UNOMUR (United Nations ObserverMission Uganda-Rwanda June 1993 - To present), UNOMIG (United NationsObserver Mission in Georgia August 1993 - To present), UNOMIL United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia September 1993 - To present), UNMIH (United Nations Mission in Haiti September 1993 - Topresent) and UNAMIR (United Nations Assistance Mission for RwandaOctober 1993 - To present). Yes you have to know with whom you are working together. When I sawthe poster with the UN peace keeping operations some time ago in theUN building in Vienna I was already surprised. How soon can you forget,if you look on this list you see all kind of wars, which longer or shorterstood on all the front- pages in the world. A lot of them disappearedalready for some time, making place for new ones. But if you look downthis list you will find wars like on Cypress and surprise, surprise, who willbe have their 30th anniversary in Cypress this year, yes the UN, with theirUNFICYP peace keeping forces. And if you look down the list you see thatthe reaction of most people that when you ones are having UN forcesinside your country you never ever get ride of them. Some mission hasbeen finished, but most of the finished ones are followed up by an otherUN involvement, just wit another name. There are only a few which UNreally brought successfully to an end yet and that weren't the biggestmissions yet. The UNPROFOR mission in these countries belongs to the really big ones, every so much months in the last year we have this half half tension going on. That is around the time that the UNPROFOR mandate for Croatia has to be renewed again, the new time will be around February I think. Those in Croatia living outside UNPA zone's are a bit away fromthis tension but still. This list, this story is not meant as an attack on the UN. More an attack on the general idea that you can't solve this things in afew months, or a even in few years. In "Feral Tribune" of this week a story about Pakrac Poljana, the villagenear to Pakrac, which is fully destroyed. T he story goes about Mercep,who was the local commander of a National Guard Unit in Pakrac area.There are rumours which say that the unit of Mercep was put togetherfrom criminals straight from jail. About his Vukovar activities there are alsodifferent stories. This special group fought first in Vukovar, later in Gospicand at the last in Pakrac Poljana. Mercep, I would nearly say, sit now inparliament for HDZ. And for this article Feral also interviewed Jurica Zuro, better known by usas Jura from Skorpija, his answers on the question about Mercep waswhat you can call a typical Jura answer. But seen from his position a veryvery good answer. He answers that he known that intellectuals andhuman right activists say about Mercep's unit that it was full of criminals,but he asked those people in return. Where were they, when Mercepcame to break the circle around Pakrac. At a moment during the war thesituation in Pakrac was a lot as in Vukovar, they, the defenders of thetown, were surrounded from all sides. In October 1991 it was evenannounced as capital for West Slavonia of Serbian Krajina. In that sameperiod Tomislav Mercep came to a part of his special unit, which was inPakrac Poljana. He broke the line around Pakrac and liberated,according the defenders from Pakrac, the town, he is there for seen as alocal hero and honoured president of the organisation of local homedefenders (from which Jura is the real chairman). Mercep's special unit was running the prison in Pakrac Poljana, which ismentioned in the Helsinki Watch report as possible place where warcrimes have been committed. When the "Serbs" gave permission to openthe mass graves near Vukovar by UNPROFOR they also asked if thegraves around Pakrac Poljana could be opened. Although from the 22Serbs in the village none seems to have died, they all survived the warand still live in the town. Some where in the end of October, beginning November, a group doctorsfrom Boston started digging under protection of UNPROFOR and hugeplastic sheets. According an Australia journalist they found at least 20bodies of civilians (among them some Croats) in different individualsgraves. The doctors said that it looks if those people were killed after beenrobbed or to rob. They all had still their wallet, with ID cards inside ofthem, but no money. Some rumours say that there should be 20 till 200graves around the Pakrac Poljana in the death fields, nobody knows,sources from Krajina says there must be over 400. A bit like Jacenovacwere during the second world war the Ustases killed between 20.000 andover a million, figures are hard to find out. There was also a demonstration today of Croatian refugees from centralBosnia, who are now in Zagreb (and elsewhere in Croatia), in front of theBiH embassy in Zagreb. They demanded almost the same things whichbe done against the Muslims in Croatia as the USAmerican governmenthad done against the Japanese Mir from somewhere in Hrvatska, Wam ------------------------------------------------------ "Zagreb Diary" can be found on a lot of different electronic networks, it iscopyright free and can be ported to any network or other means ofcommunication you like, but please drop my a line, you can reach bysending a message to wam@zamir-zg.comlink.de . Zagreb Diary isdedicated to Tyche, Pjort and Rik, so that they found out what there fatherhave been doing all that time in Zagreb. Financial support for Grassroot relief work in Croatia or BiH can be sendto Kollektief Rampenplan (atn. Lylette, Postbox 780, 6130 AN Sittard,Netherlands, tel:. +31-46-524803 and fax: +31-46-516460 or toZagrebacka Banka, Zagreb, accountnr.: 2440291594, to Kat, Pieter JanHerman Fredrik, Brace Domany 6 6fl nr3 (postbox 33), 41000 Zagreb.Please notify me if you send or have send any donations. Old numbers can be found by sending a message's with as subject"FILES" to pakrac.info@ZAMIR-ZG.comlink.de, to order a file send amessage with subject "SEND " to same address. ## CrossPoint v2.93 ##