** Topic: Zaf ger reb Diary **
** Written  1:09 AM  May 10, 1992 by wamkat in gn:yugo.antiwar **
Subject: Zaf ger reb Diary

Zagreb Diary 9 May

Friday evening 8.00 until 10.00 pm, prime-time on most of the television stations around the world, what do you see on Croatian Television. No no War, but een series of programmes about Croatian economy and how foreign investors come to invest in Croatia, PurePak, Lego, Bitburger, etc. And furthermore een propaganda film from 1987 about the Eco (the European currency). It is going well with Croatia !!!

Followed by a programme about the destruction off Dubrovnik, bad, bad enemy. Besides this there is another nice thing which stroke my ears, the word "Hvratska" (Croatian) is said about 1 time each minute.

Than ofcourse the news, with a lot of war, one positive thing, somehow the area Medugorie (I come from the Catholic part of the Netherlands and such places are known there) survived as by miracle most of the shelling, the church and other holy places are still relative unharmed. Even the fragmentation bombs which were used somehow couldn't really destroy the place. One of the first qeustion I took from the net was a qeustion about this place, so here is the answer. Medugorie lays precisely on the northern side of a valley and mountain which form the border between the mainly Croatian and mainly Serbian parts of Herzegovina, in the Croatian part ofcourse (since the Serbian part is basically not Roman Catholic).

In Russia all information about the war in Bosnia are blocked, no media is writing about it, accoording to Croatian news, I don't know if that is true, maybe somebody from Glasnet can answer me on that one. Most people in Zagreb react that this is the old-fashion link between Serbia and Moscow.

Other remarkable things, the bay at Bakar, south of Rijeka, is a beautiful adriasea coast bay, very natural, the only problem is that there is a cokes factory, against which most of the population already protested 2 years ago. Today the news came that Germany invested money to rebuild the factory, to make cokes from Russian coal for the German market. That's the type of help this country is probably getting alot of in the future. This was not on television, but came in by telephone from Rijeka.

Today the Earth Bishop of Croatia (or how he may call in english) has asked officially to ban free arbortion out of the law. As we thought what would happen. This remind me that Nives from Mi Za Mir asked me to look for pieces in the newspaper about "ethnical cleaning" and the suspression of Dalmatian. Both things are used a lot in confersations, but there is no word about it in any of the papers I have asked to control on it, sorry, Nives, it is again one of those things which is happening, but you can't proof it. We have ask the Dalmatian Action to write a piece about their problem, as soon as it is translated we will put it on the net.

After those things the German and English news (5 minutes each), in which I only noticed that the Croatian government has again changed, but that is nearly happening daily I have got the feeling. And that they adopted a new law in the parliament so that the can change the law on human rights and minorities in Croatia, I don't know yet what to think of this last move, I wonder if that is hopeful.

The at 12.00 pm channel 1 stopped and I turn to channel 2, and see the special for the Croatian Army, for and from the soldiers, love letter from home and reqeust for video and greetings for the people back home. I thought what would happen if one of those tough guys would give the greetings for his boy-friend lover backhome, would they broadcast it. Next week I will write a letter and ask for a queen video for ,my boyfriend at the front as homosexual, I am curious to see if they take it.

One other thing which nearly couldn't believe was a nice spot about a brigade which was just rebuilding their barracks and show the television around, this is damaged by JNA when they live, and this are the nice chairs and flowers we have got form firm so and so, and believe or not at that moment all the names of firms who had sponsored so far runned through the picture. After that list a list follows from things they still need and for which they are looking for sponsors. Can you imagine, coca cola can buy here their own brigade and put a commercial on their uniforms. Which brigade is this ? "That the pepsi brigade, they are better as the opel bridgade, but a lot less as the phillips troops" What for country is this ?

Love and Peace from Zagreb

Wam

p.s. and than when you are desperate to get your things on the net and for the first time in a few weeks the lines are rather clean and without too much noise, on your screen the following thing appairs, after which the connection is broken:"login: (? for help): arkPassword: (? for help): xxxxxx3dVthsc9WQCWE 3dVthsc9WQCWEUnable to change directory to "/apc/usr/gn/gnmisc/ark""And as you can see it is Saturday, so nobody is at GreenNet and with a little bit of bad luck this takes up to monday to be fixed.

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