sides agree to stop fighting now and then to collect bodies, because the smell makes it impossible to fight. Many actions by countries outside are making cooperation difficult. The embargo makes people all over ex- Yugoslavia dig in. Threats to invade, by countries or groups, help the Serbian right-wing. Just the UN control of the relief situation leads to resentment from the armed sides, who fire upon them. On TV not long ago I saw a UN soldier say their convoy will return gunfire, no matter who shoots at them. So now UNPROFOR peace-keepers have declared war on everyone. Many people at the UN know that a giant organization can’t work well with people. They recently decided to give their medical supplies and some money to Doctors Without Borders, and help the work my group is doing for refugees. The UN wants to control small organizations, but we need to be a little out of control to get things done, getting aid from all over the world just when we need it. We’ve talked with some extraordinary people inside the UN, who see the folly of big aid, and who may let us stay unattached, flexible, participatory and decentralized. Big aid agencies just seem partisan: a commander recently kept Red Cross workers out of a damaged area, saying they were working for the wrong side. Big aid also loses more than little aid. We’re happy if 80% of the goods get where they were intended. Usually stuff that’s stolen helps somebody make ends meet anyway. With offensive foreign armed intervention people would suffer even more, and efficient relief efforts would be impossible. Besides, invading a country and killing lots of people doesn’t make up for existing aggression. Two wrongs don’t make a right. Is it fighting fascism to intervene here? Though many think Croatia, where I’m writing from, is fascist, its far- right vote was actually lower than France’s. And the police here are genuinely lax, so we get lots done. There are cities all over declaring themselves countries for their own protection, who want an end to war. The people who are fighting are not simply crazy. They have a point of view, which can include peace. Our antiwar friends in Beograd help refugees, fight conscription, do political work, and organize demonstrations, meetings, concerts, guerilla theatre and huge rallies. They are among the people who would be bombed in an invasion. The West would do better to give grants to these groups, and to work at peace rather than posturing strength. Financial aid, not invasion, helped keep the peace here after World War II. Perhaps everyone needs to rethink the so- called “necessity” of intervention, be reminded of its costs, and look at the existing alternatives. The Centar Za Mir is at Grebenscica 16, 41000 Zagreb, Croatia. Tel: +38-(0)41-439928. Fax: +38-(0)41-438713. Email: warn @Zamir-zg.comlink.de and wam@zamir-zg.comlink.apc.org. Financial support for Suncokret can be sent to their bank account in the Netherlands, Postbank Amsterdam, account number 5110, on the name of SUNCOKRET, AMSTERDAM. Or by sending post checks made out to the private name: Ulla Treadmark Jensen, Keizer Karel V straat 23, 6147 HD Sittard, Netherlands. In both cases the money will be sent to Suncokret in the form of materials for the refugee centres and camps. Warn writes a daily account of his work in ex-Yugoslavia, Zagreb Diary, and posts it onto international peace and ecology computer bulletin boards. If you have access to a computer, and live in the US, you can read this by subscribing to Peacenet or Econet and looking in yugo.antiwar. To subscribe contact the Institute for Global Communications, 18 De Boom Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, Telephone: (415) 442- 0220, fax: (415) 546-1794. The Center for Anti-war Action in Beograd, Serbia, can be reached through computer networks at:caa_beograd@zamir-bg.comlink.apc.org. Their address: Center for Antiwar Action, Kralja Petra 46, 11000 Beograd. Tel\fax (+34)11 635 813. Doctors without borders is a neutral organisation that on request of UNHCR is working on the distribution of medical supplies throughout BiH. Donations of money are welcome. Head office in Amsterdam: tel: +31.20.5208700. Some U.S. Groups Working To End the War: American Friends Service Committee/New York Metropolitan Office, Jack Patterson & Cheshire Frager, 15 Rutherford Place, New York, N.Y. 10003.Tel: 212-528-0963/ 598-0971. Fax: 212- 529-4603. American Friends Service Committee, East/West Program, attn: Mike Simmons, 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102. Tel:215-241-7188. Fax: 215-241-7177. War Resisters League, attn: Dorie Wilsnack, 339 Lafayette Street, New York, N.Y. 10012. Tel: 212-228-0450. Fax: 212-228-6193. Grassroots Listening & Organizing, attn: Herb Walters, Rural Southern Voice for Peace, 1898 Hannah Branch Road, Burnsville, NC 28714. Tel:704-675-5933. Peace and Solidarity for Sarajevo, c/o Kathy Kelly, 1460 West Carmen Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60640. Tel/Fax:312-784-8065. Peace in the Balkans Project, attn: Joel Gazis-Sax, 2727 Midtown Court No. 37, Palo Alto, California 94303. Tel: 415-321-3449. In ex-Yugoslavia: International Peace Centre Dobrovoljacka 3, Sarajevo, Bosnia- Herzegovina. Tel: Ibrahim Spahic, 38-71-646-455; Fax: 38-71- 663-730.Centre for Anti-War Activities, U1 Hasana Kikica br 8, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Tel/Fax: 38-71-650- 660.Anti-War Campaign Croatia (ARK), Tkalciceva 38, 41000 Zagreb, Tel: 38-41-422-495; Fax: 38-41-271-143. Center for Peace, Nonviolence & Human Rights, Boesenderferova 2, 5400 Osljek; Tel: 38-54-124154; Fax: 38-54-45934. Democratic Forum Rijeka, Tel: Sura Demanic, 38-51-713-291, Free Dalmatia, Split, Croatia, Fredja, Tel: 38-58-42-424, Fax: 38-58- 551-740. Democratic League of Kosova, Prishtine; Tel: 38-38- 24234, Tel/Fax: 38-38-27660. In Macedonia: Green Action Skopje, C/o Jan Nansijevski, Tel: 38-91-213966, Fax: 38-91- 20175; Women for Peace, Skopje, Tel: 38-91-210627, Fax: 38- 91-236856; Forum for Human Rights of Macedonia, c/o Meto Jovanovski, St. P., Zografski 51, 91000 Skopje, Tel: 38-91-219- 067. In Montenegro: Citizens Committee for Peace, Hercegovacka 15, 81000 Titograd;Tel/Fax: 38-81-41914. In Serbia: (see Center for Antiwar Action above); Belgrade Circle, Professor Miladin Zivotic, Dom Omladin, Makedonska 22, 11000 Belgrade; Borba, Roksana Nincic, Tel: 38-11-334-531; B92 (Radio), Veran Matic, Makedonska 22, 5th floor, 11000, Belgrade, Tel: 38-11-330-946; NTV Studio B, Milorad Roganovic, Vice Director, Palata Beograde, Ma Sarikova, 11000 Belgrade; Student Protest ’92, c/o Philosophy Faculty, Studentki trg V, Carapica, 11000 Belgrade, Tel: 38-11-636-158, 38-11-646- 070, Fax:38-11-657-454; Women in Black, c/o Stasa Zajovic, Dragoslava Popovica 9/10, 11, Belgrade, Tel: 38-11-624666. In Slovenia: Peace Institute, Mestni trg 13, 61000 Ljubljana, Tel: 38-61-224666; Mladina, Franci Zavrl, Reslijeva 16, 6100 Ljubljana, Tel: 38-61-321-954, Fax: 38-61-329-589. In Vojvodina: Anti-War Center of Ada, Vera Vebel, Sencanski Put 27, 24430 Ada; Anti War Center of Novi Sad, c/o Nenand Mirovic, Narodnog Fronta 43, 21000 Novi Sad, Tel: 38-21- 363302, Fax: 38-21-57797; European Civic Centre for Conflict Resolution, trg Cara Jovana Nenada 15, 24000 Subotica, Tel: 38- 24-37116; Peace Movement Vojvodina, c/o Slavenka Ljublic, Maksima Gorkog,10/III, 21000 Novi Sad, Tel: 38-21-619019; Women in Black, Viljana Regodic, Vojvodanska 53, 26000 Pancevo, Tel: 38-13-512641. RAIN Spring 1993 Volume XIV, Number 3 Page 13
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