Nachricht Nummer : 449 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 10 March, 1994 Kopienempfänger : /REG/NEWS/DIARY/WAM, /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN, /SOC/CULTURE/BOSNA-HERZGVNA, /SOC/CULTURE/CROATIA, /SOC/CULTURE/YUGOSLAVIA Erstellungsdatum : 16.03.1994 11:59:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary 10 March, 1994 Dobar dan, I am not really religious, although with a Jewish and Protestant background I have learn to read the holy books and one of the lines which I always will remember are "an eye for an eye". I am not remembering them since I like that policy, but rather because I dislike it, it stands completely against my believe, my picture I made from the Jesus, who maybe not so important for my Jewish part, but is the fundament for my Christian believe. And since I believe or rather know that most Croatian officials are Catholics (active or not) or have at least contacts with the church I had to remember this again when I heard that the President of the Croatian Society for Victims of war sent a protest to UNICEF yesterday. He protested against the request made by the executive director of UNICEF, Mr. James Grant, towards the Human Rights Commission in Vienna. Mr. Grant asked if measures could be undertaken to avoid that children in Serbia suffer of the effects of the International boycott against their country. The reason for this protest was explained by stating that the Serbian aggressors never spared children either, neither if they were Croatian, Serbian or Muslim. In Dutch, and the Netherlands is mainly a rather Calvinist country we have a nice saying, "don't do to any body else something what you don't want to be done towards you". Or the lines of the most know pray in the Christian world, "forgive my sins, like I....". I known that at least the first five books of the bible are full of revenges, but I also know that the new testament is more or less preaching the other side all of that. And isn't that the fundament of all Christian religious. Also some good news today, Zoran published a press release today that the case against Ratko Dojcinovic from Karlovac, who had to go to military court has been cancelled. The commission who has to decided about conscientious objection has approved his case, so the court case is off. Ratko was mobilised in August last year and refused, at that moment he was send to Army jail for 45 days, for investigation, and thanks to the activities of Human Right and Peace organisations within and outside Croatia he was released, but still had to appeared for the military court, whenever the commission wouldn't approve his application. At last via Beograd we got a message from Eric, who is still in Sarajevo at the moment trying to install the Sarajevo host of our network, he told us that the host is now working inside the city, but that he still has problems connecting it up with the international networks. So let hope that the political changes of the last months also influence that in the near future in a positive way. Since I still didn't feel 100% well I have the time to read the newspapers, which normally end up directly in the old paper box. In SD I found an interview today with the president of the Croatian World Congress, an organisation formed during the last summer and which has as aim to co-ordinate and connect all Croatian organisations around the World. Their President. Mr. Nikola Kirigin, who left Croatia in 1959 and lived in the States since than, is visiting Croatia at the moment. Last Monday he was involved in the opening of the construction works to make an electric link up of the Northern part of Croatia and Dalmatia. The idea is to install a 42 million US$ expensive cable via the island of Rab and Pag with Zadar. At the opening he call this connection an important step for "all Croats around the World". The aim of his organisation is to collect most of that money from Croats around the World, he estimated that there must be at least 2,5 million Croats living outside Croatia which has a job and are probably willing to help their "homeland". Up to now however they seems to have some problems to get the money together, but he blamed that basically on the slowness of International banking exchanges. Before the war the whole electricity system of Croatia was part of the total Yugoslavia system, Dalmatia was connected mainly with the electric grid of BiH, were there were and still are a lot of hydro plants, most of this plants are now however under Bosnian or Krajina Serbian control. This new island cable will secure that the whole grid is controlled by the Croatian government. During the last summer the South of Dalmatia had often now electricity. Another huge payment will also be the 40 million DEM debt which Croatia has to be pay before the first of August towards Slovenia. During a meeting of officials of both countries, the Croats agreed and promised to pay this, which is one of the major economical problems between the two countries. The payment is for the Nuclear power station in Krsko in Slovenia, but just about 30 Km away from Zagreb. And this is just the top of the iceberg of huge investments which will be needed to re-establish the Croatian economy on a some how stable level. After a long time Alija Izetbegovic was back with an official interview on the Croatian television. His opinion about the Muslim-Croat agreement is that it is a marriage of convenience and not of love. He also stated that permanent peace in BiH can only be established if all the territories forcibly taken by what now calls the Bosnian Serbian Army have returned under the control of the BiH government in Sarajevo. 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.ztn.zer.de . 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