Nachricht Nummer : 338 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 39 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.comlink.de (Wam) Betrifft : Zagreb Diary on 13 December, 1993 Kopienempfänger : /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN Erstellungsdatum : 20.12.1993 17:20:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary 13 December, 1993 Dobar dan, Morning in Vienna, what a big city, and what are all those people in a hurry, yes it looks different than in Zagreb. We ask a few activists, which are collecting signatures against violence in Austria, how we can get to the Vienna International Centre. The last weeks there seems to have been a series of bomb letters been delivered at different place in Vienna. One was f.e. delivered at somebody who works with refugees. We sign their petition and follow the road they have shown us. We dive with the tram into a brand new tunnel and end up in the station of the underground. It is a long time ago that I have been in an underground and I feel rather lost between all those people who know from where they are coming and where they are going to. Somebody with the same problem put 100 shilling in a machine and receives his underground ticket, he leaves before he had seen that he got 5 tickets, rather than one. So our first ride on the metro is legal and free. Next to us in the wagon we hear some body talk "local languages" (in this case not the local languages of Austria, but of EX-YU), I can see from Vanja's face that it is Serbian, and not the type of Serbian she was known to Osijek. At the other bench in the Metro are sitting two boys in those black aeroplane pilot jackets, they are about 17 or 18 years old. On the arms of their jackets I recognize the 4c's and the "white eagles" of the Serbian "chetniks". And although they are just talking about girls, I feel a small shivering coming over my back, for the first time I am confronted with boys who are warring the fighting symbol of Arkan. I try to imagine what would happen if they come in contact with boys from the same ages in the T-shirts from the "Black legion", a very known Ustase fighting group in the second world war. At the VIC we arrive with thousands of diplomats and other international UN people at the same time. The guard at the gate in his nice electronic office can nearly keep his voice from sounding surprised reacting at our bleu passes with a short "You are consultants ?", yes, we are. He sees the backpack at Vanja's back and asked if we are coming straight from our mission, "yes we return, straight from the front-line", He laughs and we get ID with the texts "OFFICIAL VISITORS" and don't have to go through the airport gate. On our way in we pass a few hundred official looking people who have to wait until they can pass the metal detector, we are joking about the amount of hand grenades in a bags. We arrive at one of the top floor offices some where in the ant nest which is the Vienna UNO office. Next to our room stand on the door that it is the kitchen of the DG and that it should be closed and locked at all times, otherwise the security of the DG couldn't be guaranteed. Half an hour later the two guest from Beograd arrive, thanks to e-mail and fax their trip was organised in a few days, inclusive the visa they need for Austria. Now it is a fact the project in Pakrac is now a project of both the Peace centres, the one in Zagreb and the one in Beograd. After a long discussion in the morning during we agreed about most of the points and time schedules for the winter and spring we went down in the building in order to have lunch. Both Lynette, Vanja and me, but maybe the persons from Beograd even more, were speech less when we some the self service restaurant. In Netherlands I wasn't eating a lot in restaurants, when I was there. so this was also for me something rather new, I hadn't seen it in at least 2 years. Fruit and fresh vegetables (salads) were placed on nice plates held cold by natural ice. We didn't know were to start, as people who have been in a desert or something and see a fata morgana or something like that. Platzer and the others have to wait for us for at least half an hour, as small children we go around in this giant self-service restaurant in order to see everything and make a good decision about what we should eat. This we don't see so much in our part of the world, which is just a few hundred kilometer south. Back in the office we start to feel ourselves a bit more at home in this palest and the official guard on our floor, which sits their to protect the wing of the DG already get use to us as well, he is not asking for my ID anymore. We talk about the kind of living containers we would like to have at the "other side" of Pakrac and that one of the containers who stood near to the ArgBat house has been out walking again, those "Eager Beavers" has taken it away, the ArgBat soldiers told me, but the Canadians said that didn't know anything. We try to get some information from Knin, the UNO telephone department has a way to phone into Krajina, but nothing is known yet about the elections, which took place there yesterday. The only thing which is clear is that the candidate which was supported by Milosevic has lost a lot, probably the whole elections. Babic makes a good change to win they told him, which wouldn't be a bad thing at the moment. Babic is against becoming part of big Serbia at the moment, he considers that Krajina should stay as independent country. We phone to Pakrac and hear that Manfred has got his two contracts signed today. Mir from somewhere in Hrvatska, Wam ------------------------------------------------------ "Zagreb Diary" can be found on a lot of different electronic networks, it is copyright free and can be ported to any network or other means of communication you like, but please drop my a line, you can reach by sending a message to wam@zamir-zg.comlink.de . Zagreb Diary is dedicated to Tyche, Pjort and Rik, so that they found out what there father have been doing all that time in Zagreb. Financial support for Grassroot relief work in Croatia or BiH can be send to Kollektief Rampenplan (atn. 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