Nachricht Nummer : 551 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 19 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ztn.zer.de (Wam) Antworten an : wam@zamir-zg.ztn.zer.de Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 23 November 1994 Kopienempfänger : /REG/NEWS/DIARY/WAM, /SOC/CULTURE/YUGOSLAVIA, /SOC/CULTURE/CROATIA, /SOC/CULTURE/BOSNA-HERZGVNA, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN, /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR Erstellungsdatum : 24.11.1994 21:14:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary, 23 November, 1994 Dobar Dan, What kind of presents do you get on your birthday, beside the best wishes by Email (those from Australia, but I am especially very happy with the little greetings from Zenica, the line works) and telephone. The message that Aidan is safe back in Zagreb, he didn't made it to Bihac, but has been in Banja Luka and Knin the last week. He is happy to be back in Zagreb and don't feel really like travelling again at this moment. Or that a friend of mine is really serious in getting out of this country and has marriages plans abroad. I hope that we can help him. Or the sound of explosions this morning and early afternoon in Zagreb. They weren't loud but there were at least 10 or more of them. You never know. The television is just telling to ignore the sounds, some regular checking of some factory or so (actual the here testing at the gunpowder factory). So I was not the only one who heard them and started to ask himself what it was. It was nothing dangerous since the alarms didn't went of within the next 10 minutes after the explosion. But just last a year ago we saw a proof that Zagreb is nicely within the reach of the of the heavy weapons. Or a nice film on television, watching waiting if some information would come about the explosion, a new part from a series of "help Croatia" spots full with the picture of November and December 1992 and all the destroyed houses, nicely electronic coloured in a more psychedelic setting. Just after the news with new film material from the fighting in and around Bihac. The same houses, shoot and burned out, miles of useless stone sculptures. I got also three more NATO airstrikes as present to day. Two on Bosnian Serbian bases in BiH near Bihac and one really on the border between BiH and Croatia, maybe 80 kilometre South from Zagreb. The UNPROFOR spokesperson more or less makes it clear that the attack of today was a kind of reaction on the two earth-to-air missiles which were fired yesterday on two UK UN planes. The situation among UNPROFOR and UN in BiH gets a little tense. Like in the UNPA's in Croatia all units are in alarm, mostly in orange, only Sarajevo in red, the airport is closed again (so my planned trip t visit the network in Sarajevo will have to wait again). And of course the heavy fighting area around Velika Kladusa, were Bosnian Serbian troops seems to have surrounded the town and are joint it seems with militia of Abdic men. The Bangla Dash UNPROFOR battalion in the town seems to be total trapped (rumours are that those 1400 UN soldiers only have 300 riffles if things comes to worst). One of the quote's which were used today to explain the airraid of Monday probably I should write down to remember. Somebody I think it was a representative from BiH government accused UNPROFOR for making such a mess out of their protection job that it was now possible that it was possible that attacks from one UNPROFOR protected area took place on another UN protected area (Bihac was or rather is one of the 6 by UN declared safe heavens in BiH). We just heard today all the details from the raid of Monday. I was a little surprised when I saw pictures from the airport and hear that 39 airplanes took part in that raid. The were also Dutch planes involved, I heard, I don't know much about what the policy of my country is at the moment, they seems to follow the big NATO brothers. But if you see the picture they let quit a bit standing. As first I thought that no stone would stand on each other any more. Also it was announce that the airstikes took place with the approval of the Croatian state. Tudjman seems to have given his go-ahead already on Friday. From Beograd a strong condemned the action. The fighting themselves seems to haven't changed so much by the whole action. Although reports came in that in Pakrac soldiers were spotted on the "serbian" side of the line, the alarm light, how ever, went down from red to orange during yesterday. Although it is agreed that in the UNPA's no military and heavy weapons should around this was as the reality showed not always the case. But in sector west I have to be honest I haven't spotted to much violations of that agreement so far. So the on Croatian reported soldiers is really something new. I made a bit of a mistake last week. I thought that I heard that Abdic men joint the BiHarmija in their fight in the Bihac region against Serbian armies. But it is even more confusing. Abdic who is actually Muslim, like a lot of his followers, started of to concentrate his policy much more on Zagreb than on Sarajevo and before the 5tb BiHarmija brigade made an end of his mini state he had build up better and better contacts with the Serbian authorities in the Knin region. From Karlovac you could take a bus through the Knin controlled area to Bihac just last winter. This troops ended up somewhere south of Karlovac still in Knin controlled territory and it seems that they are armed by those Serbian troops and have returned back fighting in the Bihac region, but not against the Serbian troops, but with them against BiHarmija. This makes it more "logic" why UNHCR didn't want to send so much food to them anymore. 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