European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 11, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Hep0r? from Zagreb Page bosnian children at the Barlovac transit continued from Pogo 7 internal political discussions of other countries about receiving people because then we cannot save lives Quot said Alf Norstrom a danish red Cross director who runs the Camp jointly with the u n. High commission for refugees. A unfortunately it s not going fast Quot said Alessandra Morelli another Camp worker. Of the 1,560 refugees who arrived on oct. 1, fewer than half had found Asylum by late november and the slow Progress Means that others must remain in serbian detention Camps she said. Around thanksgiving Germany tentatively offered to accept 190 men who were promptly loaded on buses and sent without their families to another transit Camp in Budapest where they would await the final Green Light from Berlin which was having refugee problems of its own. The United states also agreed to take 1,000. But a u n official said this week that resettlement workers Are having trouble getting the refugees out of tie Region a few will be sent from Switzerland As Early As next week the official said. Quot we Are All the time getting a lot of proposals and promises Quot Norstrom said. Quot but until we actually see people leaving we cannot be Barlovac with a peacetime population of 60,000, was the site of fighting a year ago and still lies on the fringe of the Balkan War zone. The inhabitants of the red Cross Camp make up Only 10 percent of the 20,000 refugees and displaced persons in the City and local officials Are beginning to worry about tensions Between refugees inside and outside the Camp Quot they can see our people being taken care of while the other ones Are not being taken care of Quot explained Morelli who is italian. That morning she had been interviewing former residents of a town called Kozarac. The City was attacked on May 24. As much As half the population of 25,000 May have been killed Morelli said while the survivors were shipped to the notorious trn polje Camp. Kozarac Quot has nobody now Quot Morelli said. Quot everything is destroyed. This is a dead City. Some houses Are left but nobody is living in some 450 of the town s residents were at the red Cross Camp in Croatia and another 700 or 800 remained in a detention Center near what used to be Kozarac she said. Residents spoke of having Coffee in bars or working in the Fields when the serbs came. Quot people keep telling me if they told me this history before i never would believe it. My neighbor is a serb Quot Morelli said. She had just spoken with a 57-year-old Man whose wife Quot died of a heart attack for the sadness Quot Morelli said. Quot their boy who is 19, is in Majaca Camp and he does t know that his Mother it is stories like these she said that should make the world sit up and take notice of what is happening in the Balkans. Quot if we take their right of being a family who Are we a she asked. Quot a human being is a human being because of these things not because he is Able to Send a satellite the 50-year-old Metal worker from Sarajevo was separated from his family this summer in Sanski most. It Wasny to until mid november that he saw his wife and then it was just for a Day because she s staying in another refugee Camp several Hundred Miles away. Quot i left my Hometown because i did no to want to be killed Quot he said. Quot but i did t want to kill anybody As after a few Days once he had thought his family would be Safe in Sanski most he had tried to return to Sarajevo. But by then the roads were blocked he said. As far As he knew he d be sent from the refugee Camp to another refugee Center in a Western country he had no right to choose where. However he said if it were possible to return to Sarajevo now he would like to go Back. Quot to fight Quot someone asked. Quot yes a he answered without hesitating. Quot it is natural. I would like to go Back to fight. No one will defend our town except 8 the stars and stripes Friday december 11, 1992
