From: wam@zamir-zg.comlink.de
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Subject: Zagreb Diary
Date: 6 Oct 92 06:14:21 +0100
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Zagreb Diary
30-09-1992

Dobar Dan,

Looking for that shooting at those two UNPROFOR helicopters I 
bought Vecernji List and Slobodna Dalmacija, not that I fully 
can read what they are writing, but at least I can read 
things like UNPROFOR, Helikoptera and Pucnji and I wanted to 
compare the length of the articles in the different type of 
newspapers. SD had the article at the last page, with a head 
over two of the six colons which a page has and 11 line text 
in one colon, maybe 50 words. In Vecernji List of today I 
couldn't find anything, even after looking for 5 times, so or 
I must have overlooked it every time or it wasn't really in 
there. 

When I showed the story in THE TIMES of today (we got from a 
guest) to some Croatians in the house they really were 
surprised with the story, especially since nobody could 
figure out who shot that helicopter. Some say that the news 
was so put on the radio that it looked like in happened above 
"occupied territories" by "Chetniks" with other words, but 
seen the story in THE TIMES the helicopters couldn't even 
have been there.  We all hope that this shooting at the 
helicopters is not the first outburst of violence in the 
spiral staircase of tension which is building up against 
UNPROFOR. People like to go home, rather today than tomorrow.

Today there was already a demonstration, "our mars to the 
death" as some foreign reporter put it in Osijek in the 
direction of Baranja. About 2.000 of the 50.000 displaced 
people of the Baranja region marches until the first UNPROFOR 
roadblock, a roadblock guarded by the Russian bataljon of 
UNPROFOR. Their they were stopped by a Russian commander 
which said in Russian, what most of the Croats can understand 
(not only is it very similar to Croatian (Slavic), but also a 
lot have learned it on school). He said that it wasn't safe 
in the Baranja region and that he couldn't allowed them to 
continue. 

After that Glavic, the former defender from Osijek, which 
declared himself leader of Town Council some months ago held 
a very mobilising speech to continue the march and to put 
pressure on Zagreb and UNPROFOR to open the East Zone for 
returning displaced people. Kamaric, the major of Osijek, we 
has the nick name "Croatian Ghandi" as he told us some 5 
months ago, has resigned as major and now Glavac has the 
absolute power in Osijek. Since Glavac policy is a lot 
different than Kamarics ideas there probably will be some 
problems in the air for the Osijek center for Peace, 
Nonviolence and Human Rights. Kamaric indirectly supported 
it, Glavac never will, according to our friends in Osijek. 

In Slobodna Dalmacija also a nice photo on the front cover of 
young boy standing a side of a street covered with people in 
a row of man who all have loads of money in their hands, the 
boy has a whole circle of 1000 BiH-dinars in his hand. The 
title is ""Bank" na ulici Zenice", "bank" in the street of 

Zenice. The article describes BiH as the country of the world 
with the most different "official" currencies, besides the 
old and new Yugo-, BiH-, Krajina-, HB- and H-Dinars the 
Dmarks is the most used currencies, one BiH Dinar is 1700 BiH 
Dinar and one H Dinar is 6,5 BiH Dinar according to Ahmet 
Husseinovic, director of his own private one person bank in 
Zenice. 

In Slobodna Dalmacija as always on Wednesday the "Feral 
Tribune" a weekly for anarchist, Protestants and heretics 
(godloving, but no enemy of the devil) according to the sub 
head of this satiric newspaper. It is a wonder how they can 
bring out this 4 pages every month without getting problems 
with the law on verbal delicto. They already got some 
warnings. This week on the middle pages a quiz. A photo was 
shown from the new president of Croatian Parliament, Stipe 
Mesic (how always remind me on the standard version of 
criminals in old slap stick movies and cartoons, unshaved and 
with ultra short hair (he looked worst before people said, 
before they learn him to remove his strong eyebrows a bit)) 
with a nice look-throw glass hammer in his hand, which he got 
when he become president. A photo in the corner showed the 
answer, you guessed  right, a sickle. 

Further on a story that Tudjman signed today the necessary 
papers to become official member of BiH. The reporter, E.T. 
describes the tension in the meeting room, when Tudjman 
finally could sign the papers and when the plans for the next 
BiH meeting were discussed, namely to throw Bosnia out of 
this international organisation.

On the last pages of "Feral Tribune" a page long photo from a 
screaming (singing) Croatian fighter, with hardly no tooths 
in his mouths, but for that reason a lot more bullets belts 
around his body and proud his Kalecnikov in the air, and next 
to it a remake of a popular song "to father". This was the 
song the soldier sang for Tudjman, "Thank you Father". And 
big "Danke Kroatien" ("thanks Croatia" in German) underneath 
it. 

When I found somebody we will make a translation of the poem 
next to it, since the fast translation I have heard made it 
worth to ask somebody to make a good translation. A lot of 
good poems are made during the war, besides this critical 
ones also a lot of soldiers on the frontline use poetry to 
get their emotions out and some are rather good. 
 
More serious news at the end. Tudjman signed today an 
agreement over the region around Dubrovnik with Dobrica 
Cosic, President of new Yugoslavia. Most people say that 
Cosic is somewhere between Milosevic and Panic, but that he 
has a very strong position in Serbia or in Yugoslavia for 
that reason since he is the party ideologist.

I bought a bike today, a Taiwanese bike for a price from 
before the war, the same bikes was 100 metres down the road 
double the price I paid for it n the same shop I found an 
Eastern hand dril, fantastic piece of equipment for James, 
our Handy man.


Still no flights to Sarajevo

With Love from ZA-mir-GREB,

                            Wam :-)
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