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Show 10 'Hilltop Times 23, 1992 July One Croatian sees no end to fighting by TSgt. David P. Masko Air Force News Service r r ore than three months into what he 711 describes as "disbelief, rage and ll U frustration," Hasan Kuljic has decided to leave his battered homeland. which The fighting in has claimed most of Kuljic's family and an esYutimated 7,500 lives since the break-awaLi Bosnia-Herzegovin- a, y goslavian republic declared independence on Feb. 29, is fast becoming what he describes as "another Lebanon." "In Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina's capital), the fighting will never end," Kuljic said July 11 at the main train station in Frankfurt, Germany. "There are too many problems to solve." Except for an infrequent trip into Frankfurt, Kuljic literally works every waking hour of his temporary life in a small German town outside the airport. He says he digs ditches, does construction jobs, and any other odd work, because he wants to earn enough money to get himself, and what's left of his family, out of Yugoslavia. Kuljic says he wants to go to America, but with his German visa running out Aug. 31, he's not sure if he'll have enough money. He described the current situation in through a German inas people being like an animal in a terpreter cage who, even if the door opened, wouldn't dare move. Hope, he said, is the one thing of which the people are deprived. Bosnia-Herzegovin- a Kuljic, a Croatian, fled to Frankfurt after fierce fighting between Muslims and Serbian soldiers, who oppose Bosnia's secession from Yugoslavia destroyed his home in Kladanj, about five miles northeast of Sarajevo. Wagging his finger like a teacher, sure of his subject, the refugee's voice cracks with weariness as he describes the systematic execution of family and friends by the Muslims and fighting Serb forces which invaded his town. Kuljic doesn't have a home anymore, and fears for the life of his wife and baby daughter who are still living in Kladanj. Through his drawings of the recent events in and around Sarajevo, the former Yugoslavian speaks a thousand words. Using a pencil and paper, he relives the horror, drawing 10 to 12 stick people with an X marked over them to symbolize their deaths. These images would mean little to a stranger, who hasn't seen the TV reports showing the daily carnage in what once was the crown jewel for skiing and tourism in the Balkans. "It's kaput ... kaput," Kuljic said. "Everything is gone." One irony of the situation is the timing of the Summer Olympics in juxtaposition to the war going on in Sarajevo, the site of the 1984 Winter Olympics. This year's summer games 9 in Barcelona, Spain. take place July When talking about the Olympics, Kuljic describes the Olympic arena at Sarajevo as nothing more than a pile of rubble. Officials with the United Nations peacekeep 25-Au- g. once-beautif- ul ing force that is trying to keep Sarajevo's airport open for Provide Promise, and other said the town is humanitarian relief flights so ripped apart that it will have to be completely rebuilt when the fighting is over. A German interpreter sarcastically referred to any Olympic games in Sarajevo today as dash while they U.N. troops doing the or the dodge sniper bullets, high jump when mortar rounds hit. The International Olympic Committee said July 9 in Lausanne, Switzerland, that Yugoslav athletes could enter the Olympics, despite recent U.N. sanctions. The committee also said the Yugoslav athletes will compete as individuals, and not under the Yugoslav flag. Kuljic wonders what will happen when the 50-yar- d ethnically divided Croats, Muslims and Serbs sworn enemies compete against each other while their counterparts back in Yugoslavia are killing each other. Unlike Americans, the people in the Balkan countries are taught to believe, not to think, to have faith only in their religious system, and not to question it, Kuljic said. He says he doesn't want his family to be "programmed" by whatever new government takes over his country. Kuljic won't get an Olympic medal this year, although he said he almost made the Yugoslav ski team five years ago, but he, like the thousands of unsung patriots in the war-tor- n country, will earn a much higher award freedom. (Masko is assigned to the U.S. Air Forces in Europe Command Information Bureau.) KEARSLEY'S COOLER SPECIALS SUMMERIZE NEW WE WILL COME OUT AND CLEAN, OIL AND GET YOUR COOLER READY FOR SUMMER 1 m INSTALLATIONS All work n New Patio Menu guaranteed P.M. 0 Tues., Wed., & Thurs. 0 P.M. Fri. &Sat. RESERVATIONS ARE WELCOME: HOURS: 5:00-10:0- 5:00-11:0- 520 So. 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