Nachricht Nummer : 448 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 47 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ztn.zer.de (Wam) Antworten an : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.comlink.de Betrifft : Zagreb Diary on 9 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 09:34:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary 9 March, 1994 Dobar dan, "Those who do not understand this agreement or who interpret it with ill intentions object that by signing this preliminary agreement Croatia followed the dictate of the US" President Tudjman stated as part of his monthly press conference on Monday, I just could the text the following lines "The agreement falls in line with the policy we pursued, which has been and remains to be in the interest of the Croatian people as a whole and the Croatian state." With other word I and almost everybody I know are wrong. The States had nothing to do with it, there hasn't been a sudden change of policy in the last weeks, this was the policy from the Croatian government from the beginning. Why there was heavy fighting between Croats and Muslims in the last 12 months is therefor a big mystery (by the way reports from a friend in Kiseljak (HVO controlled) came in today that the town was again under BiHarmija fire, which is possible (although you never hear what kind of reaction came from the HVO side) since this town and area is not yet disarmed and under UNPROFOR control). This is one of those things from which it is clear that the "fights" are not really over yet, maybe the power wouldn't come out the guns but surely the political fight, who started, who is right and who is wrong, will continue for some time. In some pubs I was witness from some heavy discussions about this subject in the last days and I remember that about a year ago, when the fights just started, also suddenly the people changed their minds. Friends who were up to than fighting side by side with BiHarmija soldiers suddenly explained me that you never ever can trust a Muslim. Action and reaction, I still notice that it is hard to follow the news in Croatia and stay unbiased. Already for some days we get again day after day reports that around UNPA sector North (the line Karlovac - Zadar) attacks are taking place with all kind of weapons on Croatian villages. Since I am here I have been seeing this reports, besides the attacks in January last year around Maslenica bridge and some other small offensives I never ever seen reports about what HV did before, during or after the attack. This type of media and news spreading makes you very paranoid and suspicious I have notice, like in Sarajevo (and elsewhere) the main source of "real" information are therefor rumours, which you often also can't fully trust. Not knowing the full true is sometimes even worst as not knowing the whole thing at all, back to this example, maybe indeed the Croatian soldiers don't do anything, who knows at the moment. I am thinking, UNPROFOR or the Military Observer Missions could at least take up the task to publish their observations daily in the newspapers (if necessary in a paid advertisement) just to secure the reliability of this front-line news reports in the in this case Croatian press, but I wonder if the BiH and Serbian press wouldn't have the simular problems. One of the thinks what the UN could do is spreading their information more widely, now you see it ones and a while in reports and things, but I would love to see it daily, so and so much grenade from there to there and the reaction was this and this. During December '92 I was witness of the first practising of a HVO unit with a multiple rocket launcher in the field around Citluk, they fired three or four rockets in the direction of the mountain with the television tower (which were and still are the positions of the Bosnian Serbian Army), without really aiming and the priests of all the churches in the area let go of their air alarm siren's, impossible to describe what kind of noise such a machine produce when it launch it's rockets, you must be able to hear the launching in an area from at least 10 Km away from the spot the MRL stands. Those rockets have a wider range by the way. About that I had to think when I heard that Otacac, 70 Km south of Karlovac came under MRL fire today (according an announcement of a HV commander, who said that all schools in the area where closed for the day). The UN Military monitors must have had an easy job to trace back the source, this weapons produce a hell of lot more noise than a tank or so. Talking about solving the problem of having to less UNPROFOR soldiers to fill up the 50.000 vacant places in BiH the UN ambassador of the UK said today that a solution could be to send UNPROFOR soldiers at the moment deployed in Croatia (in the UNPA's) to BiH. I am, but luckily enough I am not the only one, so happy with such solutions, although "we" have a lot of criticism towards UNPROFOR, thanks to them, among others, Croatia is at least relative quiet for nearly 2 years now, and still they have far to less soldiers or let's say personnel here to really to their job. But maybe the mandate for UNPROFOR in Croatia wouldn't be renewed at the end of this month, we don't hear much about at the moment. According to some Serbia newspapers a large number (at least 30) of persons has been arrested in the last two years, who are accused to have been plundering houses of "non-Serbs" and removing and expelling the inhabitants of those houses in Ilok (the first town in Croatia, which came under "Serbian" control) and that region. According to the articles at least 3500 people were forced to "voluntary" leave their homes. Among them the former minister of justice Vojin Susa and former commander of Arkan's red Barrettes. 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