Nachricht Nummer : 571 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 20 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ztn.zer.de (Wam) Antworten an : wam@zamir-zg.ztn.zer.de Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 1 January 1995 (text file) Kopienempfänger : /REG/NEWS/DIARY/WAM, /SOC/CULTURE/YUGOSLAVIA, /SOC/CULTURE/CROATIA, /SOC/CULTURE/BOSNA-HERZGVNA, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN, /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR Erstellungsdatum : 02.01.1995 12:14:00 W+1 Sorry for the earlier posting, something went wrong. Zagreb Diary, 1 January, 1995 Dobar Dan, The new year is just a few hours old, on the Croatian Television the first film of the new year is rolling, what could it better be as "Terminator". I look at Schwarzenegger (or how ever that guy calls) and think about the fact that I have seen his face a few weeks ago in an advertisement for a new film (when I went with Vesna to "Lion King", had it so planned that Vesna and I sat at the same time in the cinema in Zagreb watching that film as my sons in Denmark in their local movie house (the last song on Croatian Television in 1994 was by the way the tittle song from Lion King in 20 different languages or so, last languages was Greek, that video is never going to work in Macedonia)). Rather than a killing machine he played a baby machine. In interview also shown on Croatian television he explain how brilliant it was to be pregnant as man and how every man should experience it. The sounds of the film are slowly becoming louder than the explosions outside. Although no extra commercials on television on with posters this year in the whole of the country I had the feeling the last days that normal fireworks have taken over from the alternatives ones from the previous three years. Last two years Croatian Police informed the people not to use their guns, revolvers, grenade throwers, handgrenade and landmines to celebrate the new year, but last year even in Zagreb you show everywhere in the air the green light tracings in the air. During the last days there were some explosions in the town which were a little louder than the (il)legal fireworks which are now sounding in the town for almost a month, but tonight it seems that most people stick to the "old" stuff. I heard between all the explosions in area only a few times the staccato sound from an automatic gun. The smog in the air prevented us from seeing anything outside by the way. At the other Croatian net we see that the President, Franjo Tudjman, is visiting the first new born baby in the hospital and gives a small interview about the health care and family values on the side line. It is his part of the year at the moment, every second day it seems there is reason for another special speech. After the hospital he went into the normal live, mixing with the normal citizens on the street. So we enjoy the President kissing (twice, never three times) people a happy new year on the main square and in the tram. He also visit a kind of youth party, where the young people started spontaneously to sing the "Dynamo Zagreb" song from Psychomodo Pop (Tudjman is honourably chairman of the Zagreb footballteam "Croatia", before the war called "Dynamo", a name from which most fans have the opinion that it is the "only right" name for their favourite football team). But last but least this evening he ended up on the party of the rich in Zagreb, in Hotel Intercontinental. Croatian Television shows the next important topic on the list, after showing what the President did this evening, now the screen is filled which drinking and singing soldiers somewhere at the cease-fire line. It is in one of those under ground wooden shelters which were build in the last two years to monitor and protect front- line (first line) as it still calls in their words. The camera moves outside and between the snow and the old trees it zooms in at a small Christmas tree, which the soldiers have dressed up with empty tin cans and the aluminium paper of their chocolate bars. All quiet at the front. 1000 days it is today, 1000 days ago that the siege of Sarajevo started, that the war in BiH started. I don't think that to night lot's of people will go out on the streets of Sarajevo to play with fireworks. Neither do I see Alija visit the first born BiH baby in Sarajevo hospital this night. Like in any other night for the last 1000 days they probably hope that for ones it will be quiet at night without explosions. Nevertheless tonight will be the first night in "Peace" for Sarajevo and the other towns were the fighting's were taken place. The last days of last year have been hard for Sarajevo. The world is also a bit tired it seems from the ongoing wars. As last ace they have send in Carter this final days of the year. At the last days Karadzic troops made clear again that he, Karadzic, had invited Carter to make the world and Sarajevo absolute understandable that he has started his "peace" campaign. "Sign the peace offer or die" seems to have been the message of the last days. This peace offence took again some needless lives in the last days. Not surprising that yesterday evening the BiH government finally, we are entering the new year in peace. I should be dancing now, together with Tudjman and all the International hotshots in InterConti now, "war is over", "war is finally over". There is a reason now to have a big, big, big party. Strange but my head don't feel like having a party. Especially not in InterConti at the moment. I am not so sure that we will keep it quiet for very long. But maybe this was it and ....... In any case a new year, a year in which I hope to learn more about a topic which is now going on in my mind for 1000 days, peace- building, peace-building, I hope to find out more about in the coming year. 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. 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