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Betrifft         : Zagreb diary 25 November 1994
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Erstellungsdatum : 26.11.1994 18:55:00 W+1

Zagreb Diary, 25 November, 1994

Dobar Dan,

So forget all the things I wrote a week or so ago about 
agreements which were established between Zagreb and Knin. 
Granic made yesterday very clear that all things and promises 
agreed and made during that meeting on the airport in Zagreb are 
not any longer taken to be serious. According to Granic Knin 
wants to re-open the discussion and according to him the 
agreements are made unconditionally and there for he is no 
willing to discus them anymore. In letter to the security council and 
NATO yesterday Tudjman made clear that he fully supports the 
airstrikes and hope that this is finally the beginning of a more 
constructive international action to change the situation in the 
UNPA's. 

The action of Monday, I didn't realised it up to now was the biggest 
NATO action ever been held in their 45 years of existing. Besides 
the planes involved there was also a back up from about 20 
more. All this power against a simple small airstrip, which was a 
kind of local civilians strip before the war. And all in all about 5 
craters in the runway, the gunside messed up, a person killed and 
some small damage on other buildings. Yes, they said, we wanted 
to give a message. But I really are surprised why this message 
suddenly has to be delivered with such an airfleet, although the 
telephone lines still work. The messages about the situation in 
Bihac become more and more desperate. Yesterday it was said 
by BiH Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic that Serbian units have 
entered the southern parts of Bihac and have taken over control 
of Mount Debeljaca.

According to UNHCR around 190.000 people are trapped in the 
pocket, from which at least 50-60.000 are refugees. Elsewhere in 
BiH members of the UN military observers corps seems to have 
had some problems. Some seems to be nicely escorted back to 
Beograd from their post in Brcko and others seems to have held 
for a while hostage on different place.

Earlier today we heard Karadzic reaction on the whole situation, 
from Beograd, he was not really sounding like ready to make a 
peace agreement. What safe heaven in Bihac, we, the Bosnian 
Serbs, will first dismantle the 5th BiHarmija corps in order to 
establish a situation in which Muslims can live normal. Was his 
reaction. Never the less today very late, thanks to or nevertheless 
the airstrikes and this reaction from Karadzic, it seems that a 
siege fire agreement is reached for the Bihac pocket. Very late in 
the evening, it was announced on television by a speaker from 
BiH government. The siege fire was signed around 20.00 hours it 
seems.

At this moment a very interesting book is laying in front of me, it is 
called 100 and 1 nights and has the same cover as the 100 and 1 
night publication as has been publicised in Germany, nearly 100 
years ago. Also a part of the illustration are the same. Although 
not in the original colour. The text thought is complete different. 
But that is logical when you know that first print of this book was 
made by Radio Zid, one of the radio stations which is still working 
in Sarajevo.  100 and 1 stories from different (local and 
internationals) about their experiences in the town. Day 88 is f.e. 
the experiences who Joan Baez wrote down of her short visit to 
the town. Far before others started to visit the town, since the air 
was during her visit still full of bullets and grenades, and although it 
is still not quiet in the town, those heavy days seems to be over. 

There is another reason why this particular copy is extra 
interesting, beside that it is signed by some of the writers. This is 
one of the 1000 copies which Radio B-92 has reprinted and is 
selling in Beograd. Vesna brought it from Macedonia and I must 
say it still is a bit strange for me to see in the colophon Sarajevo 
1993, reprinted Beograd 1994. Somehow it mostly don't fit 
together the last years. It is good though that a book like this can 
be published in Beograd. Since some of the stories are not 
particular what you can say fairy tails and the line "they were 
happy living ever after" is also missing. And the tone of some of 
the pieces is not particular friendly, at least not towards "Serbs".

I forget totally a week ago when I wrote about the first showing of 
the Vukovar film where that took place. Most likely such films get 
launched in Zagreb, but not in this case. Since Vukovar was not 
available for the Croatian filmmakers as they said, they choose 
the nearest town with cinema. So the film was launched in Nustar. 
Today w saw the report how the filmstars from Zagreb nearly 
returned to Vukovar. The small cinema of Nustar became for 1 
hour the centre of Croatia, just a few kilometres from the front-line 
all kind of important people met each other in a very small place. 

Today they show the first truck on television made for 100% in 
Croatia. He is made by a company who use, probably still do, 
make agriculture machine, like tractors and so. Now they 
launched there first, how could it be else, off-road army truck. 
Torpedo the company called and the video clip showed how their 
last product is able to transport at least 14 soldiers or a few tons 
of army materials through the roughest areas. 

Mir za somewhere in or around Hrvatska,
 
							Wam
PS ones more thanks for all the good wishes, from all over the 
world, nice to see to which outskirts of the world this bytes are 
travelling.

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