Nachricht Nummer : 370 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 41 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.comlink.de (Wam) Betrifft : Zagreb Diary on 5 January, 1994 Kopienempfänger : /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN Erstellungsdatum : 05.01.1994 15:08:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary 5 January, 1994 Dobar dan, What a nice feeling to be back on the right day, writing my diary. Hope I don't loose it again. Okay, CARE Austria in Pakrac is looking for 4 drivers who can bring 4 small trucks to Pakrac, which can be used to bring the vegetables and other things from the farmers to the weekly market's. That way they are possible to sell the stuff and we get some fresh green on the market. Anyway, somebody who was also looking for volunteers yesterday evening was an officer of HVO, who was interview in the studio in Siroki Brijeg as part of Slikom na Sliku. He called up all Croats, where ever they are, to come to central Bosnia and stop the genocide which is taken place there, done by BiHarmija against the Bosnian Croats. He said further on that the defence in that area is well organised, they mobilised everybody over 16th, men and women. But that are other volunteers than we need for Pakrac, you can imagine. Just a few days before we brought ARKzin to the printer, most of the newspapers reported that a "famous" person in the art sector died from AIDS. Globus, the independent weekly newspaper, which never will be a threat to the government, since it is such a nice boulevard magazine selling it's copies on the bases of scandals, which never ever will thrown over the parliament or government, but are nice to know. A kind of bread and games. Any way Globus took up the story and found out that the guy, after he heard that he was HIV positive, slept with men and women (yes, he was bi-sexual) all over the place. And some of this people were high ranking Croatian (male) politicians, according to Globus and most of them belong to the tribe of famous Croats. AIDS very slowly start to become an issue of importance here in Croatia, in socialist time it of course didn't exist and this guy is of course according to Globus a mass murder and almost every thing that God's forbid. I hardly don't dare to say it but this art fellow more or less was at home in the same circles of the Zagreb scene as most of the journalists from Globus, so you can imagine how close the HIV virus and AIDS has come to them suddenly. The free world suddenly not so free anymore. And that in a country with a real macho culture, were things like condoms are an attack on the male pride and seen as something absolute not made for people, the real man, for this part of the world. I have no "opala pluca" (pneumonia) it seems, but I shouldn't have stayed any longer last week in the cold (relative) room in the house in Pakrac last week. It was close, they said to me the whole week. I like the word "opala pluca", it sounds funny and by far not so dangerous the English or Dutch translation (it means the same though in Croatian). A telephone call from Ploce made clear that that hospital from South Africa is still laying there, but there seems to be a break through in the negations between Croats and Muslims in Vienna. At least that was the last news we got from up there. Izetbegovic has already written a letter about it to Tudjman. According to him the hospital is slowly disappearing, people take apart piece by piece. Hopefully it wouldn't be another disaster there in Vienna. At this moment the Croatian government and media are preparing this country for a mission to free the Croats in Central Bosnia. Think about what has been said by the "White Road Convoy", the minister of Defence and longer ago Franjo himself. On the other hand the opposition against it is growing. Even within HDZ some people are not happy with the governmental line, it seems. Not only since people are afraid for a simular boycott against Croatia as now is running against Serbia. But also simply because they still are against the carving up of BiH. The opinion that "It is our moral duty to safe our Croats in Bosnia and the rest of the world is not allowed to punish us", which is reflected in some part of the governmental circles is surely not so clear for a lot of other people in Croatia. We also have noticed a growing amount of hard reactions coming from high UN officials, especially within UNPROFOR, and which are aimed at the UN and the EC. It seems that the UNPROFOR generals are feeling really lonely in the field. They get confronted by one duty after another and still not more than 1/3 of the promised extra troops have arrived. You feel a kind of atmosphere in the air, what best can be described with "They are nice those gentlemen in Vienna and New York, but they can do their dirty work themselves if they don't give us the things we need to do our job". Although I wrote yesterday that when you ones have the UN in your country you hardly ever see them leaving. At this moment it looks if the bleu barrettes are making themselves ready to leave when the storks come back from the south. Some said something like "when the spring comes they will start fighting again" (I asked myself the fights near Sarajevo in the last days were described at even for Sarajevo standard being fierce or the situation in Mostar). It has such a dead end promise in it. After two years we come to the conclusion that we can't help you, so we will withdraw and lift the weapon embargo after we have left. It sounds hard, maybe too hard. The war is also hard, not maybe be surely too hard. 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