Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 01:11:00 CET
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Subject: Zagreb Diary 19 November 1992
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Zagreb Diary
19 November 1992

Dobar Dan,

The day before yesterday the security council decided that the economical blockade against Yugoslavia should be more effective as they said. Yesterday the Nato decided that they will put in more ships to make the blockade in the front of the coast Montenegro and on the river Danube stronger. On Croatian television we saw a report of a French broadcasting station, during which they showed full shops with food and tank wagons (clearly recognisable were the Shell colours) in Bulgaria who but their loads into 



Maybe those pictures of full shops are true, but full shops in Beograd don't mean that the rest of the country has full shops and also not that the people, normal workers, students and unemployeds, in Serbia can buy those food. Maybe for French camera teams the price is not so high, but I would like to know what they have to pay in Beograd for a bread f.e..

Here in Zagreb the price of bread went also up over the months and the result is that most of the smaller shops only sell cheap, bad bread. Bread which is made from cheap white flour, which is old in a day and falls apart when you let it lay for two days, dry and without much healthy part in it. The people have no money to buy the more expensive kinds. Also the butchers are complaining that they can't sell most of their meat since it is too expensive for the majority of the people. People buy only cheap ha



The nearly 170 refugees from BiH at the border between Austria and Slovenia, who have been standing there for about 10 days are let into Austria, at least for three months. These refugees were on there way to the UK. But some how on the Austrian border it became clear that they hadn't a visa for that country yet and that the Ministry, which is responsible, from the UK only wanted to give a visa for 7 of them. Major said that he could imagine that people would like to get away from BiH, but that the UK coul



If you hear the numbers of refugees in other countries, French said some days ago that they had already 50.000 refugee from BiH taken in, you start to wonder when they all went there. According to official documents from UNHCR they, the French, had only a little more as 1000 refugees. Since most of the bigger convoys are reported in the newspapers and on television we get the feeling that all "gast arbeiters" from BiH are also counted as refugees in these days. 

Not that I want to accuse nations for lying and giggling with figures, but those it really matters how much refugees are were. Nearly the whole world is angry on Croatia about the fact that it closed their borders. But is seems that the borders from other countries are not much more open either. Of course it is a bad thing that the thousand and thousand of refugees who are now waiting to get into Croatia are not free to come and there should be international pressure on Croatia to let them in.

In the Anti War Campaign (ARK) there was a big discussion this week about some article which were published in German newspapers and in which their group was named as being in fever of military intervention in BiH. In the past there were some members who were not clearly against, but nobody was ever really in fever. These article however were based on a press release from the Mother for Peace in Croatia, who, without asking, put the name from one of the members of ARK under that press release as co-signer.



Not that it is the major discussion at the moment, like it was in the last months, in principle we have learned to live with the fact that it probably not will happen anyway. When the security council is not willing to lift the arm embargo on BiH the step to decided on a military intervention is more unlikely than ever before in the last half year. All though the election of Clinton, according to the rumours here has brought the possible lifting of the embargo closer.

Embargo or no embargo in Sarajevo a new industry of weapon making is build up. Today the first multi rocket launcher was shown full proud on HTV, the report came from SKY, as most of the reports from Sarajevo and the rest of BiH are coming from SKY or CNN. The news reports on HTV are getting smaller and smaller, they cut most of the news bulletin with the half and send less and less reporters into BiH. The habit of broadcasting every evening an English and a German news report also has changed, now it one 



Bog I Love from Za-Mir-Greb,

							Wam
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