Nachricht Nummer : 181 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 45 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ZER.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 2 July, 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 05.07.1993 16:57:00 S+2 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 2 July, 1993 Dobar dan, Everybody was of course interesting at ARK what the national newspapers would write about the open forum yesterday evening, since the first rows were full with journalists from all different newspapers. It was obvious one of the major open politic events of this week, and already yesterday evening you could notice that the discussions would continue in the late evening in front of the door. An hour and a half after the forum stopped we left the building and in front of the building on the street at ;least 25 people were standing still discussing with the representative of the HSLS. But only one newspaper wrote a very small report from the whole event, the name from the anti war campaign was not even mentioned in the article. If you would have believe their realtity ARK had nothing to do with it and nobody from them was there. The quote's from the other speakers were so wide that the atmosphere of the evening was totally different described as I exprienced it. So we had a nice beginning for our, Vesna and me, interview with some Danish reporters, which are in town for the culture festival what is going on and organised in co-operation with Copenhagen. In between all the cultural events the reporters made their own programme to also experience something of the political situation. So when we started they had only half an hour for us. The more question which the journalists had, 5 of them, the more Vesna and I started to explain our views about the basic things which are going on and after 2 hours most of them still had the idea that we could go on for hours more, the more questions and the more answers we gave the more reactions and other questions came from them. After the interview I went eating with one of the journalists, since you should let a change to get a free mail go over. The women felt totally overflown by information afterwards, I have material for a whole month she kept on saying. As extra I invited her to come with us to Pakrac to morning to see the spot we will start with the reconstruction workcamp after this weekend. Walking back to Peace Centre I saw under the big clock Patrick from ICVA, he is involved in building up the electronic network and made an appointment with the chess players from Sarajevo who are in town on their way to chess tournaments abroad. They probably were tired from there trip since they didn't show up. Instead a girl from a new founded non-political humanitarian organisation from Sarajevo showed up. So left Sarajevo about 6 months ago and is now involved in finding out how she can get food to her organisation. She is one of those many Yugoslav in Sarajevo, somebody in which vains about all the different nationalities from Yugoslavia are combined. She calls it the fourth nation of BiH, since the nation name Yugoslav they don't like to use anymore. You can reach us in Sarajevo by sending faxes to the satalite telephone of the national bank, it is just a couple of hundreds meters from our office, and when we can get food at the airport in Sarajevo, we will be able to distribute it within an hour, no, within half an hour. We have a warehouse in the former bus station, but we do not like to store food, it has to go directly to how need it. I am looking at her small daughter when she is talking, about 4 and half years old, nicely enjoying her Coca-Cola in the sun. The daughter ask her mother what language we are speaking, if this is Zagrebian language. I asked if she knows the grand children from Izetbegovic, the twin I describe some days ago who live on Brac. Yesterday they have left Croatia with their mother, the daughter of Izetbegovic and they are now in Turkey. Together with Vesna I go in the evening to the party of a Dutch journalist, which is here now for more than 2 years and just change rooms to a fantastic apartment near the mean park in Zagreb. He gives a little house warming party and has invited some friends from which he thinks that they should learn to know eachother. When we walked into the palest of him, he tells me on the side line that it costs 1500 DEM a month, but it is not as bad as the process which UNPROFOR commanders pay he excused himself, up and over 3000 DEM per months are normal for them. The company in his room is fantastic, it shows the complexity of this war in all his details, the first one we meet is a feminists, who is now working for the governmental state institute for macro economic analyses and forecasting, who is at sick leave for 6 months. The second is a 20 years old medical student from Banja Luka, who escape from there since he is from mixed parents and is now studying here, but has money problems. The third one is a Dutch UNPROFOR soldier, who works as administrator at the airbase in Zagreb and makes the weekly newsbulletin for the Dutch soldiers. And last but not least a 27 years female doctor from Gorazde who became front-line doctor immediately after she finished her study. And since she was studying in Zagreb she join with her fellow students to Croatian Army, now she is working in HVO, the Croatian Armed forces in Hercegovina. She visit Zagreb to get her domovnica, but her name Jasmina shows that she is of Croatian nationality, but is Muslim, so she hadn't got it. The girl is full of live and has a long speech for the medical student about the medical work at the front-line and what you learn there, when you get in the soldiers 5 minutes after the got wounded. We talked for hours on the balcony in beautiful evening air, enjoying the good wine from Macedonia to make the picture complete. Bok I Mir from Zagreb, 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 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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