Nachricht Nummer : 530 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 22 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ztn.zer.de (Wam) Antworten an : wam@zamir-zg.ztn.zer.de Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 3 November 1994 Kopienempfänger : /REG/NEWS/DIARY/WAM, /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN, /SOC/CULTURE/BOSNA-HERZGVNA, /SOC/CULTURE/CROATIA, /SOC/CULTURE/YUGOSLAVIA Erstellungsdatum : 04.11.1994 11:22:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary, 3 November, 1994 Dobar Dan, Yesterday I came back by plane from Denmark, back in Zagreb, back after taking care about my kids for three weeks. And yes really back at "home" I would say. After my first real Zagreb dinner I went home for watching the television, three week of Danish broadcasting I love to see something familiar again. Back home with the Croatian version of Wheels of Fortune, Santa Barbara and at last a new documentary of the first fighting legion of Croatia in this "homeland" war, the tigers from Zagreb. The whole history of this special group nicely covered in army songs copied from the USA-marines and the music of "Starwars". And of top of the bill the victories of BiHarmija and HVO around Kupres in the news. The ugly Bosnian Serbian army is on the run, Radovan can't pump up his fighters into the big counter offensives, even his friends from RSK are not strong enough is sound if I have to believe the news reports. The USAmerican launched criticism toward BiHarmija, saying that the BiH government has been breaking the arm embargo (weren't hey the ones who were discussing to lift it?). I don't know how many grams of salt they have in their eyes, but everybody knows that weapons don't really grow on trees anymore (the time that wars were fight with wooden sticks is long behind us) and that the growing strength of BiHarmija couldn't only been based on weapons they took from the other side. I have heard stories enough from reporters explaining how the weapon trading works around here. The only one who maybe didn't smuggle so many weapons into their forces are maybe the Bosnian Serbs in this case, or import from former and nowadays Yugoslavia (taking (or getting) it from JNA) should be also considered as import from abroad. Let we don't put butter on our heads as we say in Dutch. Kupres is probably by now under control of HVO, even the UNPROFOR observers are more or less counting with this. I don't know how many times Kupres have changed sides than, I remember back in April '92 that HVO and JNA were also changing it influences in that area a couple of times. Nobody here really can say honestly that they don't have a bit of a good feeling bout this sudden change of power. Maybe not that Kupres is HVO controlled, but more that the unbeatenable Bosnian Serbian forces seems to be not so unbeatenable after all. It is a strange experiences to even notice that in your own feeling, it shouldn't be that way if you want to be neutral. Yes, I am back at home, back near to the frontlines, even when they only come into my room at the moment by television and computer messages. I shouldn't not feel happy at all with all this new fighting going on, with the idea that Sarajevo f.e. goes into another hard winter. And what is so glorious about the dead falling on the Bosnian Serb side, they have family and friends as well. Should I be happy since again violence show it's strength, I shouldn't. But I have to admit I have to sit down and think about it, when you see all those hero's on television standing on the empty streets in the village round Kupres, showing of the destroyed enemy tanks and showing the Cyrillic name plates, it is not that easy to feel a bit of their proudest. Our boys have done, if you talk about a football match, most people had nothing to do with it. I for sure hadn't any part in it. But isn't that the job of media to get you involved in one side, some more than others. How many television stations in the world are now broadcasting the poor ordinary people who had to leave from Kupres or weren't there any refugees in this case, I can't imagine it. Yes, live would be easy if we know for surewho or the good and the bad guys. A war would become as simple as playing Doom, this now famous multi-media shoot-em-up computer game who seems to become a world top hit. For those not familiar, you are to good guy, nobody can kill you and they only thing you have to do is shooting everybody else in the game since they are the bad guys. Keep shooting around and you will win in the end, from whom is unclear and don't try to imagine that all those virtual enemies maybe also have a virtual wife or girlfriend and maybe even virtual children. But that is maybe asking for to much reality, maybe even more than what you expect from people in the real reality. Yes, Kupres is free now, they told me, should I be happy? I was not happy when Vukovar was liberated either. Or was I maybe already too muc involved at that moment and couldn't see it as liberation? Neutrality is a heavy thing to maintain, it is every time rethinking your first emotions, and trying to imagine if you were on "the other side", what would you feel. I noticed back in Denmark that even the most stupid war film from WW2 makes that in my awake, what the hack goes on in the mind of that NAZI captain, what made him tick and I what good case does he believe. All of them must have something what make them tick, is it that same drive as what makes people play "Doom" or is tere someting deeper behind it. And more over how far does people want to go, when you are sure that you are not going to die, like in "Doom" you can go to the end of the world, but reality is different, so ....... We will see...... Mir za somewhere in or around 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. 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. ## CrossPoint v3.02 ##