Nachricht Nummer : 198 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 36 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ZER.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 18 July, 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 21.07.1993 15:04:00 S+2 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 18 July, 1993 Dobar dan, As I thought I didn't took long before I got the virus, today I had high fever and the runs, as we call it, so the coming days I can complete all the writing from the last weeks. Due to the time pressure I didn't came around doing anything with e-mail and for the diary I only made some notes. But I didn't came around to it. I make up a list from what happened in the last weeks in peaceful Pakrac, 2 children were killed by an APC, 2 Serbian militia died since they walk on their own landmines, a house in the Croatian sector of Pakrac get blown up, sniper activities has been recording on different dates. When I told it to one of those Dutch journalist two days ago, she looked back with a question mark, peaceful ? On that moment a German passes by which they met during the peace week in Osijek, he is also planning to build a kindergarten in Pakrac, but want to let the funding coming from both sides. I tell him that I wonder how he would do that, knowing the place a bit after spending there some days now. Back in Zagreb were people smile when they see the 1.000.000 and 10.000 Dinar billet show which I brought back with me, one is from the People bank from Republic Serbian Krajina and the other from the People bank of the Serbian republic in Bosnia and Hercegovina, they have been printed in Knin, this year and Banja Luka, last year, for the rest only the signatures are different, for the rest the whole lay-out is the same. For 1 DEM you get about 3.000.000 Dinar at the moment, but tomorrow maybe more, in Zagreb the exchange rate is about 2200 HDR for a DEM, which I got on Friday in Pakrac. Life in Zagreb, however, is a lot more expensive than on the country side. In noticed how much I have missed in the last weeks that I was in Pakrac, Zagreb has a total own dynamic, a lot of things happen here from which you don't hear in the country. When Jojo and I came back from Pakrac on Friday we passed by the HOS building near the train station. I wanted to show him the flags and noticed that the Bosnian flag was gone again. A looked a little bit better and show that around the building there were police standing and the road in the front was blocked with this metal barriers. Oh, shit that also happened this week I remember, one of these days HOS should be throw of the building there. And that must have happened some days ago. It is funny how a was looking at that building when I arrived, it was a bit like driving with that American film team through Zagreb. They have been here during the air-attack alarm and the recognize the building were they have filming from. Waiting and waiting, and talking with the soldiers on the roof of the buildings. Another living reminder of the war is removed from Zagreb, the eviction went without any problem I could see, at least, no traces of fighting. That would have been impossible a year ago, look at how the country is changing. My companion says that they still ask him if it is safe in Zagreb, every time they see something on television in the West they think it happens straight on my doorstep. But besides from the habit to look, at least, in a war zone always if the people around me are armed, more to check out when it is time to hit the road, I have yet an anti mechanism against fear. Vesna is also tired, she finished the last ARKzin before the summer, now they next one will not come before the end of September and things can slow down a bit for a while. She had a hard week as well, the attack on her and the newspaper have make her realise ones more that it is not a game we are busy to play. We living in a strange reality, papers like ARKzin wouldn't even been seen by Western authorities, here it is suddenly from nothing in the front line of the political attacks. I don't know when the Americans will show that report we made for Prime Time News the last week, but I hope soon since we can need some support from outside. Since the war get's more and more complicated for people to follow and the summer has started we have the same problem as last year around this time. Laying in bed I did some reading from the written press, Jojo brought me a bag full of material, I knew nothing about a bomb attack in the Netherlands and the arrest of Gramms in Germany. One of the press releases I take over totally without any comment, hope that you know why, I was speechless after I read it, but the world is round, you know: "Tokyo-(PD), A Japanish video company wants to publish a video with the most horrible pictures of the war in Bosnia. According to the newspapers in Tokyo the firm is planning to include the video recorders from the war zones in BiH in their series "Dossier of the death". "Our concept has as aim to satisfied people's curiosity. People have the feeling that they can't have pleasure looking at dead bodies. But deep in their hearts they like it." is the comment of the producer of this series Mr. Koji Yamahita. It lays in the planning that the video about Bosnia will come out in October and about 2500 videoshops will be delivered, Yamahita will earn about 125.000 DEM's. "The Dossier of the dead" shows the most horrible pictures of victims of murders and accidents. Yamahita, which is criticised in his country, reacts that he only show pictures of dead foreigners, no Japanish." 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