Nachricht Nummer : 547 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 18 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ztn.zer.de (Wam) Antworten an : wam@zamir-zg.ztn.zer.de Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 21 November 1994 Kopienempfänger : /REG/NEWS/DIARY/WAM, /SOC/CULTURE/YUGOSLAVIA, /SOC/CULTURE/CROATIA, /SOC/CULTURE/BOSNA-HERZGVNA, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN, /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR Erstellungsdatum : 23.11.1994 11:26:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary, 21 November, 1994 Dobar Dan, You are setting nicely and quiet in Zagreb and only because of the fact that on Saturday all the UNPA's were put under red alert made me noticing that some thing was in the air. Ofcourse we could have known it since when the security council suddenly decides that NATO also may do air-strikes in the UNPA's you have to be ready for something. Only the security council has decided so much and so often that you are not really thinking about it. What the hack why should you. Lives goes on and so this day. Waking up with the front page new that over 5000 grenades hit Bihac yesterday, not much of a Sunday rest. I only think about Aiden which trying with a British reporter for weeks now to get in there, I really don't know if he is there or if he is back in Zagreb. Or about our "best" Suncokret volunteer in Savudrija, (the camp which is now closed) who went to Bihac to build up a social community centre and rejected after some months that the stupid thing was that each moment you build up something it is destroyed the next day by grenades. And that was almost a year ago. Yes there is a third border involved there, besides the fronts between Bosnian Serbs and BiH government controlled area, there is also a border with RSK or Croatia and the Bihac pocket. And yes of course the militia's in RSK are not really seeing the difference between shooting from their own territories on Bihac or moving around the whole pocket and do the same thing from Bosnian Serbs controlled territory. And in military terms, their positions are rather better. And yes, there is a non-fly zone above BiH and yes NATO seems to control it a bit now. But imagine how small the Knin area really is. A pilot who is able to start, fly, shot on Bihac, and land and that all above the Knin controlled area, not crossing either the BiH airspace, neither the Zagreb controlled airspace is a hell better pilot than those who shot on the bridge between Slavonski and Bosanski Brod and hit the hospital 5 km down the line. Today the ultimatum from Tudjman run out and sorry I can't help but I feel there is a connection between those things. Just before Tudjman want to more or less give every UNPROFOR soldier in this area a return ticket home, their ""comrades"" from NATO, make a hell of a stunt. Weeks of fighting are going on in BiH already and no reaction what so ever, only some remarks that BiHarmija has violated the arms embargo, but suddenly strength must be shown. With all the UNPA's in red alert, and that happens so often, all our volunteers have heard that they have to be more ready than normal to be evacuated. But I heard that everything on both sides is calm and well. With NATO involved directly in this area, the situation hardly can be left alone by UNPROFOR. It looks if the fire works of today are UNPROFOR ticket to stay a view months more in the front rows in the theatre. Soros said that UNPROFOR is so neutral that they have become Serbian biased. Things after visiting Sarajevo some weeks ago. Imagine that Tudjman has said today or will say in the next days that UNPROFOR has to pack for Christmas and don't have to come back, than surely HV will start the invasion, at least if you have to believe his statements. NATO nicely blasted away one of their airfields in Bosnian big fights are going on, so soldiers are needed there. Milosevic seems to have his border at least a bit more closed than before. It seems a lot more closed than most people expected that it would be. Not much of a glorious starting point seen from the side of the "defenders" of RSK. We will see what the changes are that UNPROFOR will be send home in the coming days. So NATO bombed their way back into neutrality, but in the end it looks that UNPROFOR as a protection shield will stay. And I don't know how strong Croatian army is, but I am sure that in new fights new people get killed and the problem probably not solved. NATO showed where the Western World stands on this moment. Let's hope it stays quiet. If the few tank grenade which fall down yesterday evening on Zupanja have anything to do with it, I don't think so, in that part of the country it is never completely quiet. I talked with Srdjan and others who were in Tuzla last week's weekend. One of the stories they told was that some people in the town didn't like it so much when the weekend before the people from the Verona Forum (who also had their gathering in Tuzla) putted the Serbian flag between all the other flags of participants of their meeting in front of the main hotel there. And I think today they probably even have more problems with it. This morning a small attack took place on the town, launched from Bosnian serbian positions. The tour of the HCA participants to Tuzla was protected by UNPROFOR, they made short cut over an area which was not so long under BiHarmija control, so all people in the bus had to get out and into such nice APC's. That ofcourse made the feeling of safety of most of the western participants a lot less. Through the shooting whole they could see how the local people drove by in their normal cars, which ofcourse are a lot faster tan an APC. 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 ##