European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 11, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Report from acre photos of bosnian tragedy at the islamic Relief Agency in Zagreb. Blankets went Down is when i realized they must need blankets a she says one afternoon outside the refugee Barracks at Barlovac. Ordinarily the newtons who Are retired shuttle privately donated goods into Romania but the transylvanian Hills have grown impassable for the Winter so now they Are heading . Quot Well go Back for More a she says. Quot we plan to do this As Long As Croatia needs  which May be a Long time to come. Now it is a Friday night at the . Compound at Zagreb Airport. A British paramedic from Manchester one of the 20,000 . Troops in the Region is drinking too Many Beers and learning about an american Holiday called thanksgiving. Quot so its like our Christmas a he decides. Then he grows More serious than he s been All night. He explains that he s been in the Balkans for More than five months now and will soon be Home for Christmas in Manchester with a new Bride and with Croatia hopefully far behind him. When american families join together for their thanksgiving meal do they first Pray he asks. Told that they often do he asks another question. Quot will you do me a favor on your thanksgiving will you Pray for All the . Troops who be lost their lives Over Here Quot at least 17, the statistics say is the number of . Soldiers who be died Here this year. Quot its not their War. It s not their fight a the paramedic says Quot but they came Here All the same. And they died a the american Holiday called thanksgiving has now come and gone. But the Winter and the not so Distant fighting and perhaps the need for prayers All continue. A bosnian Man and his son Are reunited at the Barlovac transit Camp. Kasovac grim Way station for Balkan refugees Quot we do not have time for All the internal political discussions Quot says Aid worker Alf Norstrom left. Raed Aldafari works with islamic Relief. By Vince Crawley staff writer thl worst Day was july 7, said the 50-year-old Metal worker who would t give ins name. That was when the serbs loaded prisoners from the town of Sanski most onto trucks a with 100 to 150 people crushed suffocating by into each truck a and drove them to a detention Camp called Majaca. The journey lasted five or six hours maybe More. The Man lost track of time. Whatever the length of the journey he said it had been too Long. Eighteen people died in his truck alone he said. Afterwards Only 10 or so people were killed by beatings and torture the Man said. Quot not a very big number a he said. Quot still it is too  he and others drank ram water and ate Putty to stay alive he came originally from Sarajevo and by late november had ended up in the red Cross transit Carnap at Barlovac Croatia about 35 Miles Southwest of Zagreb. The Cam actually a dilapidated Barracks from the Austro hungarian Empire which was d1 banded almost 75 years ago lies in the Shadow of a bombed out serbian orthodox Church the Steeple threatens to collapse into the Barracks so one Ang is dosed off and kept vacant rot amp the Camp of precious space enough Lor another 500 Beds. The Barlovac transit Camp is the main holding area for 2,000 former in toners who have been released from serbian detention Camps since oct 1 most of the people have lived through horror stories a of beatings torture Roadside shootings a and most refuse to give their names or to allow their pictures to be taken. . Officials interview them and write Down their stories gathering evidence for possible War crimes trials the worst stories involve serbian Camps called trn polje Ker term and Oborska where former inmates Tell of men burned alive of serbs opening fire on a roomful of prisoners killing hundreds of busloads of men taken to the Edge of a Cliff and shot As they were unloaded from the the buses so that the bodies fell away into the abyss. The bosnian at Barlovac live in a stateless homeless Linbo sleeping in hallways and passing the time in dark crowded rooms waiting while Western countries Haggle Over whether or not Borders should be opened for yet mom refugees from the Balkans once these people Are allowed to move on Camp officials say there will be room for the red Cross to evacuate More in toners from serb Camps in the meantime both the Camp officials and the refugees pass the tune and wait we do not have tune for All the continue a it 1 on huge 8 Friday december 11, 1992 the stars and stripes Page 7