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From notes@igc.org Fri Nov 22 23:19:49 1996
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Date: 22 Nov 1996 18:11:08
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Assalamualaikum,
I'm aji, I go to Gadjah Mada university of Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Since the war started there, we're moslems from Indonesia feel angry for
what happen to our brothers & sisters there.
Thanks to our government & some Indonesian moslems organizations that have
done some action, althouh most of moslems people here can't do real action
anything but support & pray.
Alhamdulillah, the war has stopped there but it's not the end, it's just
the beginning to develop strong & wealthy Bosnia.
I have a dream, someday when i have finished my school (my major is
accounting) & get a job, i will go to Bosnia & do something
that useful for Bosnians. I can't do that right now. Insya Allah.
Wassalam,
Aji Erlangga
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
From notes@igc.org Fri Nov 22 23:25:42 1996
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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 16:01:46 -0800 (PST)
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From: PeaceNet Balkans Desk
Subject: Radio 101 update
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/* Written 9:11 AM Nov 22, 1996 by iskoric in igc:yugo.antiwar */
/* ---------- "Radio 101 update" ---------- */
"This was not a particularly wise decision" said Elizabeth Rehn (a
special UN something that visited Croatia) accurately describing the
moronic decision by Croatian bureaucracy to take away Radio 101's
license.
Brittish Foreign Office raised the issue of Croatia's admission to
the Council of Europe (there is still a plenty of time to kick
Croatia's sorry ass out of there).
Virtually everybody in Zagreb is on the side of 101:
-City Council of Zagreb (which owns 25% of 101's stock, so is
basically loosing money if 101 doesn't get the concession)
-People who got the concession: Globus refused to take it and sided
with the 101
-opposition politicians - well that's obviously a gravy train for
them
-HDZ city officials - after all they have to live in Zagreb, and face
the 6000 angry teenagers in the streets
-human rights organizations (like HHO) - they organized
demonstrations
-war veterans
-military, including elite forces (meaning that the government may
have some trouble enforcing the decision)
-around 95% of public opinion (except for Ivic-Pasalic and members of
his extended family) supports Radio101
-other media - including regime media: HTV, HINA, Vecernji List - the
fact that bureaucracy can do something like that to vastly popular
station like Radio 101, scared and alienated most of the press
profession from Tudjman's regime (the logic: who is next?)
Outside support:
-State Department
-Foreign Office
-B92
-Slovenian media (all)
-Committee for Protection of Journalists
-HRW
-IFEX
-Reporters Sans Frontiers
-UN
-1400 signatures (so far) collected on the Net (write a message To:
r101@vukovar.unm.edu with your name, city and country in the Subject:
line): check the list at http://vukovar.unm.edu/r101/
-Peacenet's BAlkans Pages prepared a 101 sub-page at
http://www.peacenet.org/balkans/indie.html#101
Current:
Croatian government advised its Telecommunications Commission to
repeat the vote, since Globus refused to take the concession, so IT
WILL BE ANOTHER VOTE. Tudjman was released from Walter Reed on
Thursday morning and will eventually make his tennis match on Sunday.
Future:
Although outcome is impossible to predict, I believe Tudjman is not
that stupid to stay with a decision so unpopular with the entire
Croatian electorate. After all, he wants to stay in power. Affirming
the present decision is the surest way for him to die from cancer in
some underfunded Croatian hospital as a retired professor of military
history.
Radio 101 has a web site:
http://pubwww.srce.hr/arkzin/r101/
mirror: http:/vukovar.unm.edu/arkzin/r101
Support page:
http://www.croadria.com/r101/
Live coverage:
http://radio101.cro.net/r101news.htm
New page:
http://www.geocities.com/heartland/1302/r101.html
ivo
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From notes@igc.org Fri Nov 22 23:26:55 1996
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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 16:01:52 -0800 (PST)
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From: PeaceNet Balkans Desk
Subject: (Fwd) Croatia alert update
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/* Written 12:33 AM Nov 21, 1996 by iskoric in igc:yugo.antiwar */
/* ---------- "(Fwd) Croatia alert update" ---------- */
After seven years of communism and six years of nationalism the
governmental bureaucracy in Croatia finally quashed Radio 101, one of
the first independent, democratically minded and free-market based
electronic media in Eastern Europe. Radio 101 continued to prosper
all those years despite all the governmental harassment the radio
and, particularly, some of its journalists were subjected to over years:
a poll taken by magazine Obzor among 1000 random Zagreb radio listeners
just a day before the infamous shutdown, showed that 94,7% were for
Radio 101 to be allowed to continue operation.
Radio Globus, which won the concession, however, is not a front operation,
like so many of "privatized" enterprises in Croatia, of a Tudjman's
Inc. And they refused to take what they think belongs to the Radio
101. Croatia is ruled by the same bureaucracy that run the show under the
communists. They just want to get their toys back and they skillfully
use market now to do the job. Electronic media are just one of the
most obvious example - this is a clear attempt to establish a monpoly
on information (the thing they so much miss from the previous regime,
obviously) by buying all TV and Radio stations - be they
willing or not.
Ah, and, by the way, this is how that monopoly works:
Radio 101 was the first and so far (Arkzin is having a huge story in
the next issue and I bet Feral Tribune would not miss that either)
the only journalistic entity that announced that Franjo Tudjman,
the President of Republic of Croatia, has a cancer of esophagus and
is being treated out of the country (in the Walter Meed Hospital in
Bethesda, Md.). If the Council of Europe, that just recently welcomed
Croatia, allows this shutdown to stand, then E.U. and the U.S. - that
agreed to hospitalize Croatian conducatore - better donate some
sattelitte dishes to Croatian citizens so they can get free CNN,
at least to know what's going on with their own President.
Expectedly the news were not taken lightly:
1) Radio 101 continued broadcasting (legally it can until November
30th)
2) The world is sending messages of support - you can do that, too:
write To: r101@vukovar.unm.edu
Subject: Your Name, City, State/Country
3) Radio Globus that was awarded 101's frequency refused to take it.
4) Peter Galbraith, American ambassador to Croatia showed up at Radio
101 just two hours after the decision in show of support
5) Tudjman is still in an American hospital
6) the list of organizations, politicians, institutes, people,
companies other media, etc. who support 101 is too long to be
mentioned here - let's just say that besides Tudjman and few of his
henchman it seems that everybody else is on the side of 101
7) Right now there are a few thousands of people in the streets of
Zagreb: Bad Blue Boys, fans of soccer club Dinamo (the name was by
another Presidential whim changed to Croatia, though) organized
demonstrations, and all the young people joined. Students brought
their teachers. Refugees and 'displaced persons' joined, too. War
veteran joined. Even active military units joined the demonstrations
(special forces units like Tigers and Alpha). It looks pretty much
like when Yeltsin climbed atop of a tank... I think that Tudjman
might want to prolong his cancer treatment for a while. Even his
party officials for city of Zagreb are against the decision.
ivo
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International Freedom of Expression eXchange Clearing House
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Date: 20 November 1996
CROATIA: Radio 101 forced to cease operations
ORIGINATOR: Reporters sans frontieres (RSF), Paris
**Updates IFEX alert dated 2 October 1996**
On 20 November 1996, the Croatian Telecommunications Council
refused a licence to Radio 101, the last independent radio
station in Croatia. The Council's decision will force Radio 101
to stop transmitting at the end of November. The Council cited
"financial reasons" for the refusal; however, Ivic Pasalic, an
advisor to President Franjo Tudjman, added that "Radio 101 was
too political."
Radio 101's editor-in-chief stated that the station will fight
the decision.
BACKGROUND:
According to an alert originated by the Committee to Protect
Journalists (CPJ), on 15 July, Radio 101 had failed for the
second time to obtain a long-term broadcasting licence, in spite
of having provided documentation said to be missing in its first
application and having paid fees amounting to more than US$
35,000 for three temporary licences. The latest temporary licence
was due to expire on 15 November. Operating since 1983, Radio 101
has become a very popular, award-winning station (see IFEX
alert).
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Send appeals to authorities:
-denouncing the continued harassment of the independent Croatian
media
-urging that everything be done so that Radio 101 may continue to
transmit freely
APPEALS TO:
His Excellency Franjo Tudjman
President of the Republic of Croatia
Zagreb, Croatia
Fax: +385 1 443 075/444 532/456 5188
Mr Zeyno Luzavec
Minister of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Communication
Prisavlje 14
10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Fax: +385 1 611 0691
Please copy appeals to the originator if possible.
For further information, contact Jean Chichizola or Franck
Petit at RSF, 5, rue Geoffroy Marie, Paris 75009, France, tel:+33
1 44 83 84 84, fax:+33 1 45 23 11 51, e-mail:
rsf@calvanet.calvacom.fr, Internet: http://www.calvacom.fr/rsf/
The information contained in this alert is the sole
responsibility of its originator.
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* 490 Adelaide St. W. #205 Toronto ONT M5V 1T2 CANADA *
* tel: 416-703-1638 fax: 416-703-7034 *
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Ivo Skoric ***** iskoric@igc.apc.org
212.369.9197
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