Nachricht Nummer : 195 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 43 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ZER.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 15 July, 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 21.07.1993 12:01:00 S+2 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 15 July, 1993 Dobar dan, This morning there should be a checkpoint meeting for the first time in five months. For the first time people from the Croatian and Serbian part of Pakrac could meet at one of the UNPROFOR checkpoints. The invitation came this time from the government in Knin and that was new, since they were the ones who forbid it 5 months ago. Jojo and I wanted to be there, but nobody really told us when it would take place. The officials on both sides knew about it but that was all, they were not involved in the decision making about the time and the place. We missed the meeting since we were visiting the "other side" and the major showed us a building which he could get for as long as it was needed in which he would like to start a kindergarten. We looked at the building, checked the construction, all the wood work is gone, burned, but it looked good and could provide at least space for 40 children. It has a nice garden around it and you could see with your eyes closed how the children were playing there. We just came down an iron construction of what used to be the stairs and a Japanish comes walking up the path, "Dobol Dan, Dobol Dan", it is a guy from UNHCR, which is on a field trip to find projects and to hear what is going on. And we tour again with him through the building, "A little plastic, some cleaning up, nema ploblema". I check if Jojo has his radio equipment, but he left his recorder at the major's house. After the possible kindergarten we drive up to the football stadion of the village, a few hundred square meters more or less equal ground, which has been playground of moll's in the last two year and a never finished building, that probably should have become the clubhouse. The major tells that he would like to organise tournaments here and a disco for the youth. The Japanish knocks and say's "Great" and "Doble" all the time and ask the major why he is not driving a Japanish car like his Nissan petrol, why a Opel. We drive back and the major tells us that he just have heard that the checkpoint meeting has become a mistake, what precisely happened he don't know, jet. Oh' shit I think, immediately back to the other side I want to know what happened, especially if I like to take our volunteers across to this side on Saturday. So in Scorpia I hear the first story and after about 3 hours I have finally figured out what happened. UNPROFOR replaced the checkpoint in Lipik about 300 meter on the Croatian side, they put two APC's on the road about 100 meters passed the Croatian Checkpoint and pushed the Croatian police back behind their new checkpoint. Some people seems to have know about this new place or heard it, but on the Croatian side people blocked the road and didn't let anybody go to the checkpoint meeting, they also had some flags with them. I asked a few times around if this reaction has anything to do with the shelling on Croatian cities in the last days (the motorway via Karlovac is blocked at the moment, due to the shelling), but most people were sure that it was because of the replacement of the checkpoint. "It was the wrong place, at the wrong time and the wrong people organised it" was the reaction of the major on the "other side" when we asked about it later. Still I think that we have to be careful of passing the line with the volunteers on Saturday, I need to have a meeting with the regional UNPROFOR commander to find out for myself what they think about it. We need to know a little bit more about eachother, since we will need his help in the future more often I think. It's is nearly evening when Jojo and I pass the line again to have a meeting with the former minister of the Sprksa Republic Krajina for information and now a "free fucking intellectual", as he introduced himself in an earlier meeting. But he is a firm supporter of the major, and fall out of the government in the same period. He will explain Jojo what he thinks this radio station should become. For about half an hour he makes a monologue in which the word "modern" is the keyword, which is repeated over and over again. Tommy breaks his tongue in finding different words to translate the speech in Serbian to the major. When Jojo's tape runs out and we have heard the word "modern" for the 2000 time or so, we start to become a little hopeless. And Jojo breaks the ice by explaining an idea we, two, had this afternoon, imagine we put a antenna on the Catholic and the Orthodox church and both of you can use the same wavelength for half the time. Why the church, is the reaction, we never went to the church, but we explain that we didn't choose churches for their religious reason, but simply because of the general symbolic. But we saw from his face that he didn't really like the idea. Look we can't do it together yet, that needs a lot of time, we here in Serbian part of Slavonia are between lines, who protect me form the back. Then Jojo come up with the idea to start the first months of broadcasting only with music, but music from all over the world, not cultural included in this war, and maybe after a month some babies can give their opinion on the world. And maybe in three month date's of local events can be broadcasted and maybe.... but one step of the time, that's what UNPROFOR says, one step at the time, and two backwards................. Bok I Mir from Zagreb, Wam PS major means leader of the town council in all this cases. It should have been mayor, but after you have met the person you would understand that the spelling mistake is rather funny here. ------------------------------------------------------ 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 or wam@zamir-zg.comlink.apc.org. 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. Lylette, Postbox 780, 6130 AN Sittard, Netherlands, tel:. +31-46-524803 and fax: +31-46-516460 or to Zagrebacka Banka, Zagreb, accountnr.: 2440291594, to Kat, Pieter Jan Herman Fredrik, Brace Domany 6 6fl nr3, 41000 Zagreb. 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