** Topic: Zagreb Diary **
Response  43  of  67
** Written  1:58 AM  Jun  4, 1992 by wamkat in gn:yugo.antiwar **
Cc: conf:yugo.antiwar
Subject: Zagreb Diary

Zagreb Diary
04-06-1992

Dear Diary,

I am going to enjoy this country every day more you know. It is fantastic what they find out today to make live even more interesting today and the motivation to stay even bigger. Hurrah after 7 years I have found myself a country were the government openly proclaims that they are going to build a nuclear power plant as soon as possible. And three coal power plants as well. Hope that everybody out there remember the days last year that JNA threatened to blow up the nuke from Slovenia. 

We have a housing problem, militarism, unemployment, refugees, domestic violence, discrimination (also from women), waste problems, environmental destruction, war, deplaced people, hungers, beggars, inflation, fascism, no good social system, half knock out education system, aids, strong black (this has nothing to do with somebodies colour), conservatism, lots of foreign workers (abroad, soldiers from abroad and UNPROFOR), economical problems, football hooligans, all kind of strange sects, a government without experience (half the time in political crisis), in a few month an anti abortion law, censorship, mistreatment of animals, I must have forgotten a few, but they will probably also be there, and now also a nuclear power plant, not even yet under construction. 

Dear activists abroad, this means fun for some years. Nice, nice, nice. Pax wrote me this afternoon, before I heard this on television, but I saw it coming, that he think of opening the SNEEEZ (Stop Nuclear Energy Eastern Europe Zone) in Zagreb and ask me if I could find cheap office space. Don't know if he meant it as a joke, but I am going him to stuck to that idea.

It is great with this military intervention they also going to drop there whole western industry into this countries. The "liberators" give presents (a nuke, new car factories, new this..., new that.....), no problem no green movement to stop us and people who like to cooperate. This is going to be the playground for western industry to test their newest samples and bring them than from here back in the west. 

Just your imagination this country could be build up an other way, it would make a difference if people now in Rio demand from the world population that Croatia and BiH are now going to build up according the highest environmental possible standards. If they mean they have to pay for it, together we going to try to go in the other way. 

Lots of industry and houses are anyway destroyed, so lets build them up together. But now the world would listen in Rio, they put Dubrovnik on a special plan, send some food, send in the troops, give some factories, and we have another consuming state, with a lot of problems in the future, but that is an other generation, who then lives, when then cares I don't know if that was English, it was Dutch anyway).

We have to wipe this dirty spot of our white faces in Europe, this tribal war has to be stopped. Since this is to close, this is our own white skin fighting here, it is closeby guys, only 14 hours drive from Amsterdam. It is not the other end of the World, it is in Europe this time and it may be underdeveloped southerners, but they have the same skin you know. Maybe the white tribes are not all so civilised, those Balkan states are anyway still not past the middle ages. So put a few bombs on this spot and kill a few Serbs, some Croats and Muslims on the side line, put maybe there were could become Serbs also you know, you never know with those tribal people. Tomorrow Dalmatian want to be apart, and Slavonia seems also not so happy as being no undepended state.

Yes it is a bloody chessboard here. This is playing games on very very high level, feeling bloody important. People should think for themselves. I don't know how long I can see Croatia television without somebody translation and filtering it for me. This whole idea of filtering to true out the news is totally new for me. This not knowing what happens out there in the world. For most of you Croatia, Serbia and BiH are just those articles in the morningpapers, next to all the other shit in the world. And the 10 minutes (it is a closeby war) in the evening news.

And those unlucky ones like you, have to read the shit even on his electronic net, they have to pay to get material of with again reminds them that there is a war going on. That every day live in Zagreb, in Ljubljana, in Beograd (New Yugoslavia), in Skopje and certainly in Sarajevo is also 24 hours. 24 hours filled with a lot of the same things as back home, the place were I should be, but also 24 hours Croatia, BiH and Serbia. With no shit from the rest of the World or it has to be at least an upraise in the states, the formula one in Monte Carlo or some grown ups guys putting a ball over a net for an income from who somebody here only dream (in Paris, I can't remember the name, but Wimbley is in London).

And you can't switch the channel you know, or you have to leave the country. It is not just 5 minute or 10 minute, o, shit their is a war going on down there. I remember myself. First ten days of panic, are they totally out of their mind down there, let's go and demostrate. And then huh, huh, that was close. Shit they starting in Croatia, now, o, they only have airraid alarm because they maybe will bomb the places, bit Zagreb is more or less unharmed. 

Yeah and then it is for a while again 5th page news, it is still war, but there are so many wars. Are they totally crazy now, they are shooting at Dubrovnik, that nice city, idiots, uncivilised people. Can't they read they sign treaty after treaty and nobody seems to have see what they agreed. That not normal, we send some monitors down there, since this has to by stopped. This is Europe guys, here shooting on an other tribe is not longer allowed. And when you shot at each other do it according the rules. Let show that we can have at least in Europe, nice clean civilised wars. 

Okay, nema problema, EC has the things under control, Vukovar was on that moment already destroyed. But is is just a photo in the newspapers (I have been digging didge in that area, years ago, they bloody destroyed my work, are they basters or what). 

Shit they shoot at the referees, that's not allowed guys, once more and we bring Uncle Sam in and he brings a lot of friends with him. For what have we made the Geneva convention. They shot never ever shot at the referees (and also not on international humanitarian organisation), for the rest keep going guys, keep going, we will talk about it.  Let's have a plenary, smile say cheese, but keep it clean, thee should not shout at the table guys, we are civilised, we are no wild tribes.

What is up, Doc. You seems to have so problems down there, any help needed, but not to soon please the elections are next year, keep it under control and don't light the fire kids, I need this victory badly, people are saying nasty things about the last one, but keep the fire under the lid, don't let it spread too much. There must be anything left over to save.

He, he, he, Geneva convention, do you remember, thee should not slaughter, what they are shooting at hospitals, that's not allowed guys, send in some more observers, this we haven't seem in our continent for a long time, let some press came down there, this is news again and those locals can't even get there camera stable. Close up please, not to much blood please this is for the eight a clock news children can watch. can you move that little baby a little more to the body, so that his eyes with tears about his dead mother fall on her stomach. That's it that is the picture, keep it there. By the way was did a Serb or a Croat, it is no Muslim I can see she has no black uniform. O, it is still a Muslim, in European clothes, how can you recognise that, o you knew here, and you are, what Serbian, you are the enemy isn't, have you killed her, no, I thought all neighbour killed each other here, that is not true, how weird.

No, guys, concentration camps are not allowed, but we can't look everywhere you know, oh, that are warcriminals, that boy from four was shooting a big riffle, how odd, are children born here with guns in their hands, and what a women do the enemy have in their army, but if you say so, o, not criminals just prisoner of war, keep to the rules, and good day, how do you say, Dobro dan, or so.

By the way we have some deserters and some refugees coming to our countries, keep them down there, we give a live aid group a ring and we send you some tents. But please keep them there otherwise we have to do such uncivilised things as being not social and closing our borders. By the way those deserters you must take care of yourself, they are walking around with the wrong papers and that we can't allow ourselves, ordnung muss sein.  

Keep that Olympic flame high, boys, we are moving see us coming, but after the games, or maybe before if the time is good. And fight your war a little more systemic please, when possible with one front at the time, this scattering around is not good for the people out there to follow what is going on. The keep it simple we concentrate the world press in and around Sarajevo, that is anyway every day price, and the local press can cover the rest. But can't you just split that country in three part that would make it lot easier to cover. By the way that war in Kosovo can start about now, we have our cameras ready, Sarajevo is anyway a little too hot now. Don't make the same mistake and one at the time, not in Vojvodina and Sandsak or what ever yet unknown part otherwise we have to move too much around. And it is so hard to follow for the outside world.

Or was it all planned in the war and campaign rooms, how long can we let them play and them we take over guys, we are going to get marching in as the liberators and take the market without any resistance. It is possible that all this peace researchers who saw it coming made it clear years ago what could happen and they just let it happen. You don't know how clever those war and economic games computers can be nowerdays.   With Love and Peace from Zagreb,

Wam:-)

P.s. for all of those who feel, that I have offended, or Tribal people, or Africans, or Serbs, or Croatians, or Europeans, or Americans, or Muslims, or humanitarian aid group, or what ever, this was a piece of nearly Dutch black political cabaret (they never say what they think, or just see that what you should think, or see if you think what you should thinking, but in no way the real true), unfortunate the war is real.

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