Nachricht Nummer : 540 Übertragungszeit : 2 min 46 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ztn.zer.de (Wam) Antworten an : wam@zamir-zg.ztn.zer.de Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 27 October 1994 Kopienempfänger : /REG/NEWS/DIARY/WAM, /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN, /SOC/CULTURE/BOSNA-HERZGVNA, /SOC/CULTURE/CROATIA, /SOC/CULTURE/YUGOSLAVIA Erstellungsdatum : 10.11.1994 13:10:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary, 27 September, 1994 Dobar Dan, Or rather Zagreb is everywhere where my laptop stands, in this case in Denmark, but I will finish this when I am back in Zagreb I think. I had this incredible experience today of having a hour phonecall with a Dutch journalist in the Gaza strip in the middle east, who is also responsible for the Balkan region. Before she moved from Amsterdam I talked her into a CompuServe link so she could follow my diaries at home and all the other news from her. Now in the Gaza strip the telephone lines are bad, the Israeli disconnected everything they had installed previous in a way that they are not of any use anymore. Similar conditions like some telephone grids around here. Anyway both of us are at this moment about equally far away from the Balkan and my only daily connection is getting my Email from ZaMir in Zagreb. Besides all the technical work messages I only read the press releases and some news bulletins from Bosnet and they send me reports from what is going on in Pakrac and Zagreb, so I keep track. But being really there and feeling the air is different. She needed information for a new article about the next winter in BiH. She went over her files and saw some similarity in the last two and this winter. In the summer the war relaxes, than fights reopening in the fall, the winter it is quiet at the battle field, but enormous problems with food transports, which didn't came through during the fighting's in some areas in the fall. So all kind of improvisations should be made. I recognise the rhythm also, although in between there maybe some other rhythms playing along, but those are regional. The other reason she called was that the one or two times that she came through to CompuServe she missed my diaries. And more important she knows somebody who is the son of a former PLO leaders, who has been killed by the Israelis some years ago. This guy wants to start an InterNet BBS in the Gaza strip. And I hope he gets his gear on the grid, more two years of Zagreb experiences only can makes me wondering what will happen if sudden the free Email grid contains the Gaza strip as well. It is equally important as the link up which Eric is making in Kosova these days. It is simply fantastic that thanks to the grid and our system in Zagreb I simply can from here follow the discussions at "home". It doesn't really matters where I am if I want I go through my Email base and check out the BosNet and FPB bulletins from this day and I can tell you what happened where at which moment. Via some other ways I can check out from here which transports of UNHCR went where and if they came through and why not. I can even tell you the hours of sun at this day in Sarajevo or Pakrac. I could sit in the Gaza strip as easily as in Mostar. I am sitting however some where in Denmark in the middle of nowhere, 12 Kilometre away from the nearest small city and only Danish news which I hardly can follow. Still I receive the inside rumours of the movement back in ToFY. Or now from the Gaza and we exchange the similarities between the both situations. It happens everywhere and the place doesn't really matters. It is happening in Mostar, it is happening in Sarajevo, in Novi Sad, in Pakrac, in Karlovac, or in the Gaza strip for that matters. Rebuilding a society, rebuilding a new future and with the problems which go with it. The reality how UN organisations work on the ground, how former donors are taking over parts of the local industry. And the fight between blocks of economical influences. Here in ToFY the fight between the USA, Europe and Russia (and maybe somewhere on the background Japan, they deliver the only cars for UNPROFOR which wear a big commercial on the back from the makers). Humanitarian help is part of that "fight", especially when it comes from national governmental allied institutions. That Europe, with Germany in the lead is now helping Mostar is an example of it. Denmark by the way is going to organise the waste disposal industry in the Gaza strip (DenWaste), pick that up from television and checked it now. In a week from now I will be back in Zagreb, unbelievable. Although it was never so far away, not further than the nearest telephone line. 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 ##