Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:59:00 CET
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Subject: Zagreb Diary 20 November 1992
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Zagreb Diary
20 November 1992

Dobar Dan,

There are about 20 people in the room and due to the smoke of nearly as much sigarets and the light from two small light bulbs it looks a bit like a secret underground group planning an action or so, although the blitz lights from a photo reporter from Slobodna Dalmacija for one moment change the picture totally (in fact he creates a bit of panic because nobody knew who invited him and you never know). In fact I am in the Centar za Mir, maybe indeed an underground group. Our speaker tonight is somebody who





For the one of the first times the Centar is really full (Vesna and the other were really proud on it), people are still open for every word which comes from Sarajevo. As people in Sarajevo are literally dying to get news from the outside world. For all those months that the news about Sarajevo travelled around the globe, nearly not one piece of news from the outside world reached the normal people in Sarajevo. Only those with world receivers and batteries know a little bit what is going on out there, for 





It was clear that Zdravko had hardly any idea how much news comes out of Sarajevo and what the foreign newspapers and other media (so also the Croatian ones) are publishing about what is happening in his town.  He told about the barricades, the snipers, the fact that nearly all the trees are cut (to get fire wood) and all those things we hear about nearly every day. The stories about the road blocks were each of the fighting parties makes some money. About the inner city of Sarajevo, which is nearly robbed





Stories about the new type of total freedom, you want to go to your work by bus, no bus, come at your work, no work, goes to the coffee bar, no coffee bar, wait for the television news, no electricity. But also no bread, no what ever you are use to.

The air in the room became greyer and greyer and so the talks. When Europe and the rest of the world, which easily can stop this was, even without military intervention, if they really want, the whole thing will spread over the Balkan. Not only Kosovo and Macedonian are in the fire line, also Albania and Bulgaria and even Greece are sitting on the swing. "They are trying out the third world war". 

What we can do, putting pressure on the international bodies, smuggling radios and batteries to Sarajevo, or organising an satellite connection (one of the owners  of such a connection who went for a trip of a few months around Europe closed his machine in a safe, he was afraid that the neighbours would use it  (Satellite connection cost about 40 Dm per minute, the question is however were to send the bill)), all possibilities.

It was now about 4 days quiet in Sarajevo and for all of us it sounds like a miracle, after so many months day after day hearing the same story every day, who would believe that a cease fire could last so long, 4 days is a long time (too long probably since the radio news just reported shootings in Sarajevo again). I can remember the first 4 days of cease fire in Osijek, how unbelievable it was for us visitors and even more for the people who had lived under the shelling for 7 months. But the real live con





Yesterday the government  made the 20 Zupanija (counties) for the election of the second Dom (house) of parliament known and later, all areas (also those who are still UNPA land, (occupied) of Croatia were planned in except Knin and Glina.

On my way back home I saw today some cars, which obvious just came from Sarajevo (according to their number plates), the windows were gone and replaced with plastic and the sides full bullet and grenade holes. It has been some time ago.

Tudjman was visited today by a delegation of the people from Vukovar and the mothers of soldiers from Vukovar, after a year the could visit him, during the summer they complained a couple of time when I met some of them in "Vukovar Hotel" about the fact that the Croatian state didn't want to listen to them. He promised that he would do every thing in his power to get all persons, who are (hopefully) still in Serbian prisons out as soon as possible.  After the reports of mass graves during the last few week





Bog I Love from Za-Mir-Greb,

							Wam
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