Nachricht Nummer : 436 Übertragungszeit : 4 min 13 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ztn.zer.de (Wam) Antworten an : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.comlink.de Betrifft : Zagreb Diary on 3 March, 1994 Kopienempfänger : /REG/NEWS/DIARY/WAM, /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN, /SOC/CULTURE/BOSNA-HERZGVNA, /SOC/CULTURE/CROATIA, /SOC/CULTURE/YUGOSLAVIA Erstellungsdatum : 03.03.1994 13:02:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary 3 March, 1994 Dobar dan, I am still ill, it is getting better, but I still have to be inside, although the sun is shinning outside and lot of things are happening in Pakrac where suppose to be at the time. Yesterday evening Vesna J. went to a meeting with Madam Mitterand, who is these days in Zagreb (she will leave tonight), being chairperson from some kind of French Humanitarian organisation. Which one Vesna couldn't figure out since the meeting was a kind of open buffet, with incredible small sandwiches she said, and Mrs. Mitterand didn't held an official speech or anything. She, Vesna, also didn't had the change to talk with her, since there was always a large crowd of surely more important people around her. But she thinks it suppose to have been a honour to have been invited. On Slikom na Sliku (picture on picture) yesterday evening late there was a piece from a Swiss television station about the evictions of people from former JNA houses. Most of this evictions took place during last year and ARK and ARKzin has been making a lot of publicity around it. Nowadays it hardly ever happen, only sporadic and mostly in Split. This case was also filmed in Split, by the way. A girl who lived already for 12 year in her flat with her parents, from which the father was JNA officer (who went in the beginning of the war to Serbia) was expelled by a front- line soldier and his mother, police, military and civil, couldn't do anything. In a small studio interview after this topic with a representative from the ministry of Defence it was said that the ministry and the army are absolutely not agree with this evictions and that they form a problem for them. Especially since the Croatian state promised in December last year to stop them. Yesterday I wrote shortly about Maglaj, this morning an UNHCR convoy should have gone there from Split, but it is delayed for some days. UNHCR couldn't get the permission from the Bosnian Serbian authorities to pass the front-lines (which is neccessary to reach the town). The answer from the Bosnian Serb authorities was that at the moment all the top officials are in Russia or in Beograd and there is with other words nobody around who can make the decision. The other activities of UNHCR has been resumed yesterday, after a short break during Tuesday, due to the downing of the 4 aeroplanes. Also for the first times in months UNHCR has started to use the road from Mostar to Sarajevo. The convoy taking this road is however held up in Hadzici by around 100 angry Serbian women, who want that first their husbands, who are kept prisoners by BiHarmija, had to be free. After an exchange of POW's yesterday between HVO and BiH (128 BiHarmija soldiers and 61 HVO soldiers) there must be still according the ICRC figures 1,273 BiHarmija POW's in HVO prisons (not said how many Bosnian Serbian Army POW's they have). The BiHarmija have 463 HVO POW's and 466 Bosnian Serbian Army POW's. And Bosnian Serbian Army have 455 POW's, mostly from BiHarmija. Back to the downing of the 4 aeroplanes on Monday. Although it is more or less clear that the 4 planes were Serbian, all Serbian authorities, in Bosnian, Serbia as well as in Krajina (where the 2 remaining went too after the other 4 were shot down) still say that it weren't theirs. According to their statement no no-fly zone violations has been done by them since the no-fly zone is been established. According to UNPROFOR figures there has been about 1.400 violations, done by all sides, since the beginning of the no-fly zone resolution. An indication that the Galebs came from Serbs controlled bases is the fact that the news agency Montena from Podgovica (the new name of the capital of Montenegro, former Titograd) issued two days ago a press release that one of the killed pilots is called Zvezdan Pesic, a 31 year old refugee from Mostar of Serbian nationality, who lived now in Montenegro. According to the pressrelease the Yugoslav army information service has informed his parents from the incident and the dead of their son. In the pressrelease stood also that Zvezdan was forcibly mobilised some time ago. Some days ago I proudly or rather happily wrote that the Yugoslav office in Zagreb and the Croatian office in Beograd were already opened, but this seems to be not the case, today I got the message that due to some technical problems this offices aren't opened yet, but that the people hope that they soon overcome this problems. From Pakrac I have got the news that "on the other side" they now have decided to use the Yugoslav Dinar, the new so-called Super Dinar (exchange rate 1 DEM = 1 Yugoslav Dinar) as their only official currency, up to now you basically only could pay with foreign currencies, like DEM, Austrian Shillings, Swiss Franks and so on. Serbian Krajina was the last from the four "Serbian" area's were the Super Dinar wasn't used yet. Before the they start using foreign currencies they used in Krajina their own Krajina Diner and sometimes also the Bosnian Serbian Dinar, now all "Serbian lands" have the same monetary system. This sounds not so important, but in fact it is, especially since there is still no real solution for the Krajina territories, this is one of the points which hasn't been arranged in the agreement between Tudjman and Milosevic on the other hand most parties involved has said that they like to come to an arrangement soon. Granic, foreign minister of Croatia, said even in Washington that Croatia is ready for negations with the authorities in Knin about reintegration of the Krajina region with a high autonomy. Mir from somewhere in Hrvatska, Wam P.S. I notice that my friends in Zagreb and Pakrac are reading my diary very closely every day and correct me always when I make a stupid mistake, like 2 days ago on the first of March. Jojo in Pakrac notice that I wrote that if the IMF and World Bank would have refuse the loan towards Yugoslavia some years ago the wars maybe never would have happened. But they refused and of course what I wanted to write was "If they would NOT have refused". Further more he gave me the name of the person who wrote that article about selling away the arms from the armies involved. That was Joseph Brodsky, not the first one, a Nobel price winner. ------------------------------------------------------ "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. 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