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because the house was not a
refugee camp. We didn't real
ly know- if they w-ould l>e able
to immigrate to (Jertnany, and
even if they could, it would
take time until they would
•dually get there Hnrky began
persuading them to accept the
Makarska plan with tears in
his ayes. Going hark to
Makarska might be dangerous,
but that intention would show that they were not"
running and hiding like a mouse If they stood up
together against violence, surely other people with
a conscience would join them one after another
They would be able to find friends in Makarska
community, and it would be a good example for
people's attempts to pursue a reconciliation, not
hate at this moment and even after the war Guns
and knives should not be the only weapons for
people, but they could have useful weapons of
consi ience, of tolerance, of morality and of non
violence. It would be just a small story of one
refugee group in Croatia, but it could show a vic
tory of non-violence over violence.
Suddenly. Sava said. "I'm going track to Makars
ka !" and began directly talking to the mothers It
was unusual scenery that a kid was persuading
parents In the cirr us families, the mothers had a
say for everything and kids had to obey. It was the
first time for kids to say something about decision
making, and Sava, just a 15-year-old girl, coura
geously made a der ision. There was no way for the
mothers but to accept her decision. About 3 in the
morning of Aug 6. almost half of the families with
Harky. Wolfgang. (Wirt and I got on a van and head
ed for Makarska When we reached Hotel Oseja
va. it was dose to 5. Except Wolfgang, who went
Inn k to Mennonite's house, we c hecked in the
hotel. The condition of the hotel was worse than
that of Hotel Riviera Rooms were very dirty and
some bathrooms had constant running water. In
some toilets, people had to wear boots because of
water on the floor. Harky. Gert and 1 slept in one
room until 9.
When we got up. we talked about Aug 6 and
what it meant to people That day was the 4Hth
anniversary for an atomic bomb that was dropped
on Hiroshima (another one in Nagasaki Aug 9).
lapanese people also celebrate an anniversary for
the end of the war. in which they were defeated
(Aug 15). Every summer, Japanese people remind
themselves and others not to make the same mis
take again The purpose of these celebrations is
this to prevent war and maintain peace. Although
lapanese authority had formerly resisted to admit
Inpan's own guilt about atrocities, but people are
making their own peace movements In Serbia.
Serb nationalists celebrate an anniversary for the
battle of Kosovo, but with an opposite purpose to
create war and gain their selfish demand at a cost
of others. What's lacking in Japan and .Serbia (and
Croatia) is an self-acc eptance of their own faults,
lapanese authority is finally making a change in
that attitude, but Serbian and Croatian ones are
not. If one could be able to listen to others. rvs|>ec!
their perspectives, accept their own guilts and
establish genuine relations, wars in ex-Yugoslavia
could have been prevented Needless to sav. the
war in Bosnia is neither ethnic: nor religious
Ancient hatred among different nationalities is a
stupid excuse This is purely political, and politi
cians and intellectuals are making it into a reli
gious war. Besides cosmopolitan i ities like Saraje
vo, there are towns and villages where people are
uneducated and more conservative. So. they are
educated by intellectuals so that they can be
killing-machines. They have been makings suc
cess thanks to "help" of western governments, and
the pureness as political war is eroding. We are
I __
now watching a process of destruction of once
democratically committed state of Bosnia-Herie
govina, illegally and locally at first and then legal
ly and internationally,
loiter on that day, we were kicked out of the
hotel hy the manager because we were not
refugees. We soon reserved one room in a boarding
house, a three-minutes-walk from the hotel. Wolf
gang came with the rest of the circus families, and
he went back to Germany since his mission here
ended For that night. Harkv stayed in the house,
and Gert and I slept in different rooms in the hotel
On the next day. Harkv had to leave for Split
Then, we found out that we could no longer stay
in the hotel because people in the hotel became
suspicious about us We decided to stay out of the
hotel tx« ausc we didn't want to let the circus fam
ilies have any kind of troubles. From that night on,
we started a night watch around the hotel. There
was nothing we could do to prevent soldiers from
coining because they were not rationally thinking
II they came, there was nothing we could do rather
than observing the situation. At least, we could
make a contact with Mennonite's house and
UNHCR.
Hotel Osejava turned out to he a safe place for
Muslim refugees including the circus families It
was located in the center of Makarska, and cars
kept moving on the roud Refugee kids were mak
ing friends with local ones, and they began playing
together on the beach. Both mothers and children
tried to live normal life in Makarska. Gert and I
played with them, chatting with them, shopping
with them, having parties with them and seeing
movies with them. The children put trust in us.
and even those who hesitated at first began
approaching us They liked singing their favorite
song "Sarajevo Ljuhavi Moja." As for the night
watch, we started from midnight and ended at
5:30. We continued until Aug. 15 - with exception
of Aug. 13 and H - when two more volunteers
helped us. After we left, another volunteer took
over our place.
With various considerations. I think that Hotel
Osejava is a safe place for Muslim refugees includ
ing the circus families although I can't be sure
about their safety Because I got to know them per
sonally. I'm deeply concerned about them. It was
too early for me to leave the circus families and
Croatia as well. I know that I couldn't do much
practical help for them because I was not training
for non-violence volunteer work. But as Ghandi
said once liefore. no one teaches me non-violence,
but 1 do non-violence. I met many remarkable peo
ple who didn't formerly have any training but
were doing a really great job. In refugee camps,
people from inside and outside are working for
education and recreation. In the case of the fami
lies in Hotel Osejava, they have a circus. They are
the children’s circus and far from being profes
sional, hut it's something that they can keep their
solidarity and that they can really enjoy. It all
depends upon how the German group will
respond to them - their new life and their circus
Brae Island and TCCS (Aug. 12-14)
Gert and I had been associating with refugees
in Hotel Osejava and doing a night watch On Aug
11. two volunteers from Mir Sada (most of them
returned from I’rozor or G Vakuf) came to Makars
ka with llarky Harkv left for south soon, hut two
remained and did the mght watch hv taking turns.
In the next morning, Gert and I took a break and
left for Brae, the second-largest island in Croatia,
by ferry with Sasha as an interpreter.
Our excursion in Brat, was not well-planned. We
wore supposed to go to some refugee camps, but
we didn't even know where they were and how
to get there After getting some information from
Harkv on telephone, we got on a bus and went to a
small port town called Povolja. That town had an
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