13 April

The day begun with typing some latest news from SDA from Sarajevo, I begin a little to understand what he wants to say when a sentence is making no sense to me and try to add where possible some diversity in the name of the attackers, in his faxes is mostly Chetniks (but some asking around always makes clear that this particular group is not Chetniks, but an other Serbian extremist group, there seems to be hundreds of them). I even try to laugh about the black humour of the guy, today it was relative quiet, only three bombs on... Nevertheless, the humour from Osijek is often even blacker, nothing special happens today, only 100 bombs on the centre, you cannot destroy it anymore anyway.

The front is 24 kilometres from here, I realised that today I thought it was much more, over hundred or so, hope that my mother do not worries when she looks on the latest maps. The front in this case are the Croatian army, with soldiers who had only 10 days practice and the organized Chetniks rebels, with the Yugoslavian army just behind it. They are lying on both sides of a river and seem to wait until the Bleu Berets will come (which are sitting their in their barracks and getting according the rumours 300 mark a day (twice a monthly income)).

When we heard that again arms transport were stopped at the Austrian-Slovenian border we were thinking if it wasn't a bad idea to ask groups in the west to find out from which factories those arms are coming, who are the ones who are making money in this war. We hardly know were they are going to, so it is next to impossible and a waste of time to find out were they are coming from. Not that a list of names of factories would help us a lot, but more the hope that such a list give activists in the West some objects to demonstrate against.

Make know whom the bastards are who keeping on sending those murder machines down here. This material comes from close by, as said I have seen about all the guns which are produced around the world and in the number they are use here some riffle and gunpowder companies in Europe are making big money. Not on this war only, by the way, for me it is some hard to remember myself that this is happening on many more places. The newspapers and television do not give so much news, and international papers are not available since there is no tourist. The hotels are full, but with refugees and so far, I have seen only two typical Japanese tourists and a lot off expensive German Mercedes in front of the most expensive hotel in town. I have nothing against fat Mercedes (or rather I have a lot against them), but above all I really would like to know who are driving them and what are they doing here. The contrast with the other cars here is so big.

The sandbags are starting to blossom, I see more and more out of which small little plants are growing. Therefore, spring is really in the air.

Love and Peace from Zagreb

Wam:-)