Nachricht Nummer : 371 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 47 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.comlink.de (Wam) Betrifft : Zagreb Diary on 6 January, 1994 Kopienempfänger : /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN Erstellungsdatum : 06.01.1994 16:46:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary 6 January, 1994 Dobar dan, The new years cards action is starting to get along, not the thousands I hoped for, but it seems that we have past the first 100 some days ago. Wonderful a great thing for the people to see that they are not left along. Some of the people who recieved my call up reacted a bit cynical, like can you eat cards, and are they burning longer than coal and I can understand those reactions. Food, clothes, heating that are the first things people think about, it are also the first and obvious only things the international media is talking about, besides the war. But you can't imagine how happy people are when they receive even the smallest letter or card. You can't eat it, you can't burn it, but just some personal greetings give a lot of internal heat, it warms the heart. Especially when that cards or letters are coming from relatives, who are living abroad in refugee camps. But also from absolute strangers. In the war here in Croatia, which is by far not so spectacular as the war at the moment in BiH people feel left alone by the rest of the world. They get their aid, but that goes in big amounts, rather unpersonal. They like to have contact from human to human, even when it don't bring lot's of goodies, the contact in itself is the goody. Late last night I was phoned from Rijeka, they had an urgent message to be put on the net. Unfortunately the person normal responsible for those messages is gone for some holidays and so they asked me to put something on. Last Friday it seems that the Croatian Army (HV) have mobilised the editor of the biggest and most critical weekly magazine "Feral Tribune". Viktor Ivancic was just at home, preparing his new-years party, when the military came. It seems that it all went very fast and that Viktor didn't had the time to call a lawyer or something to know his rights. They didn't inform him in before hand as normal, but just came said that he was mobilised and brought him to the barracks of a special unit in Split, friends already have seen him in uniform. During the next days we hope to hear more from this, since at the moment some friends are down there in the hope to find out what really happened. This morning "Novi List", the only independed daily from Rijeka wrote a story about it and ARKzin have send a protest letter around today. It is obvious that Viktor is not a real soldier and that HV can't really use him, if you know Feral Tribune than you would know that he wouldn't be a real fanatic Croatian fighter. So or they made a mistake there or it is a try to cool down the activities of "Feral Tribune", I hope it is the first alternative. The new special envoy of the UN, Mr. Akashi from Japan, who just finished a peace mission in Cambodia and who is to replace Mr. Stoltenberg, has arrived some days ago in Zagreb. It seems according to his words that there is a possibility that Japan also is going to contribute to the UNPROFOR peace keeping force. And also that he could understand that some of the UNPROFOR forces on the spot in BiH are thinking of leaving the country in Spring. During the news which came on the television around his arrival there was also some talking about a new peace plan for Bosnia, which seems to be made by NATO (a lot of the countries who already contributed to the UNPROFOR force are by the way NATO countries). They were talking about a 50.000 troops heavy force which should go into BiH to protect the peace after some documents have been signed in Geneva. I must say that such large numbers more or less wonder us a lot. For the time being most of the UNPROFOR officials are complaining that they can't get enough troops, the 700 men neccessary f.e. to protect the Tuzla airport are still not there. And at such moment they are suddenly talking about 50.000 troops more. From the nearly 800 refugees who arrived in the last days of last year in Split from Sarajevo 145 were send to Gasinci near Djakovo. On the way there already 60 of them decided not to go, so they never arrived, they are probably some where (illegal) in Zagreb. But from the 85 who finally arrived yesterday also 60 didn't wanted to stay and returned to Zagreb. Gasinci was in the beginning of the war in BiH one of the most horrible camps, not houses, but tents and not enough cooking possibilities and toilets. During the summer and winter of 1992, foreign aid organisations did their best to improve the situation. The German and Dutch build enough houses for the people who were in the camp at that moment and Suncokret build a community center in the camp. But now a year later the situation seems again really bad. Already in the summer there were talks that again tents were needed in Gasinci, since the population was growing a lot after the fights started in central Bosnia and the Croatian government replaced refugees from the sea coast to Gasinci. The reaction of the people from Sarajevo is clear, the situation is again far beyond what is should be. Every evening after the last news I can learn something about the Croatian history, since a couple of weeks they have started to show the most important things which happened in the past (not only from Croatia, but for 80%). Lot of those "famous" people of the past are not real known by most of the young people. During the socialist period the history from before 1940 seems to be hardly existing. It is strange to she how nearly a whole country is local for it's past, for it's own history. 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. Lylette, Postbox 780, 6130 AN Sittard, Netherlands, tel:. +31-46-524803 and fax: +31-46-516460 or to Zagrebacka Banka, Zagreb, accountnr.: 2440291594, to Kat, Pieter Jan Herman Fredrik, Brace Domany 6 6fl nr3 (postbox 33), 41000 Zagreb. Please notify me if you send or have send any donations. 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