Nachricht Nummer : 320 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 38 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.comlink.de (Wam) Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 2 December, 1993 Kopienempfänger : /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN Erstellungsdatum : 06.12.1993 23:10:00 W+1 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 2 December, 1993 Dobar dan, So I don't know if I can write it in my diary, but since UNHCR also wrote it in their reports, which are spread all over the world, so why can't I write it, today the best news came in since many days. Djakula, mayor (or rather major) from the Serbian side of Pakrac was released by the authorities in Knin and with him his two friends, the last one went in hiding since the are afraid of their lives, Djakula probably also but, knowing the man a bit he will immediately return to home of his brother in Pakrac. It is a pitty that I have so many things to do here in Zagreb otherwise I would directly go over the line to find him. He has been in jail in Glina for almost 3 months. At this moment I think that all the people I know are free, or rather they are not in jail. Also the 4 drivers from UNHCR, who were arrested last weekend in Velika Kladusa by police agents from Adzic came out the next day, like in the case with Djakula there is still no reason given why they were arrested. Vesna went to Djakovo before I heard the news, so I will try to reach her tonight to tell her the happy message. She never have seen the guy but have heard so much from me and from the newspapers about him that is probably also happy to hear it. I don't know if I must be happy with this fact. On the one hand it is maybe a step in the right direction to have him back on his post, but on the other hand you never know why the let him loose. Today I mostly spend changing our network server, Eric has organised that we are polled from Germany instead that we have to poll from Austria and Germany. The server in Germany which Eric build up is to serve us, Beograd and especially the new node which is going to operate in Sarajevo, it seems now possible to phone from Sarajevo to Germany some times. The reason that Eric's relay is phoning us is because the fact that the telephone prices has been so changed in the last months that it is now cheaper to phone from Germany to us, than for us to Slovenia. This reminds me on the days before the revolution in Praha, everybody could easily get a telephone, but the costs were so high that nobody used it. Also the first messages came in from people who saw my picture and the five lines in US world report this week, I didn't know what newspaper it was until David told me that it belongs to the five big ones from the states, so that's why they can pay a reporter to phone me over the ocean for half an hour and a photo journalist to travel around with me for a whole day and still publish only one picture and maybe 10 lines. Jesus, how different with Vesna, who have to fight to get the money together for every single issue of ARKzin. Anyway maybe a lot of new readers, you never know. I told it to Vesna on the telephone and that I want to break the world record public electronic diary writing, she asked me what the record is so far, I don't know I had to answer, probably a week or so since I didn't during Ecotopia 5 years ago as well. So with nearly 19 months (with a small break in the beginning this year and in September when I was for the first time in the Netherlands) I must come close to it. In the evening I met up with David to go to the show of the children of the Kutina refugee camp, Ogi had asked me about a hundred time special to come, so I couldn't refuse. We came of course just in time to see the last number, but that was one of the best, since little Ana (our volunteer in Pakrac from Osijek) had chosen that as one of the three acts she wants to organise in Pakrac in the coming weeks. Now it is sure that Vanessa Redgrave wouldn't come we still like to children from Kutina to come. Vanessa is not allowed for her safety to Sarajevo (UNPROFOR wouldn't take the risk), in Zagreb she is not welcome since she plays the next day in Beograd, and in Beograd she is not allowed to go since the next day their will be elections (Vanessa planned her tour long before Milosevic decided to blow up his parliament, Ogi told me). The room was not as full as Ogi has hoped for, but he was more nervous than "his little kids", although for a lot of them this was a highpoint in their lives, some of them never ever been in Zagreb. Ogi was also angry, since the tour he planned months ago to perform with his kids from the different refugee camps as well as his former theatre group from young criminals (their is a better word for it) in Dubrovnik for the refugees and displaced there around Christmas start to fall in the water. He is a little bit like a gambler as me, he thought when Vanessa is here I can tell her that plan and she will maybe give the missing few thousand DEM's, and now Vanessa is not coming. After the performance I came to talk with an older woman from Germany, somebody told her that she had to talk with me, and after a while it became clear why we had to talk. She will bring me or rather us in the beginning of the next year a complete set of sewing machine's on hand power to build up a sewing workshop in Okucani, she collected already two for other projects in refugee camps. Later that evening I bumped into the local head of office of UNICEF, an old hippie, which was glad to meet somebody who worked in his favourite place (Amsterdam) and he promised that he would make some time for me, I really dig it , man he kept on saying the rest of the evening. 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