Nachricht Nummer : 182 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 34 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ZER.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 3 July, 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 05.07.1993 17:58:00 S+2 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 3 July, 1993 Dobar dan, In the car to Pacras Vanja was reading the newspapers in the hope that today at least something was mentioned about the discussion between Zoran (ARK) and Krpina (HDZ), but nothing. Only a report in Vjesnik about the press conference HDZ yesterday organised, during that press conference Zoran was mentioned in one line with the other two famous left- wing desidents as you nearly can call them. Knowing Zoran he will be very proud. On the way to Pacras I show the Danish journalist that there are already in this area from Croatia more storks than in the whole of Denmark, although I don't think that that is the big reason to explain that the people grow in Croatia is going a lot faster than in her home country. There are not as much pregnant women on the street as about a year ago, but it is still a regular picture. The guy at the motorway refuse to let us go through for free, he says that only UNPROFOR passes and people in UN vehicles can pass for free and all other have to pay, his colleague at the beginning of the motorway didn't know about this law and waved us through. Since we have no card we have to pay double in Kutina. We arrive five minute to late in Pacras, but that is far within the expectable 20 Slavic minutes which are normal. For the door of the opcine (town council building) we meet the two people from UN office in Vienna which are living on this side of the UNPA check points. Tom, a Canadian Croat, shows his new numberplates, "UNOV 001" I asked him if we can have the seventh pear of numberplates, since I would love to drive with "UNOV 007" on our car. He show me his identity card from UNOV, it has also number "UNOV 007", the didn't wanted to skip the first six cars he explained. We went with them to the second offices in the town,. or rather the first office, the coffee bar "Skorpia", here you can meet about everybody which is important and not in the this part of Pakrac. The UNOV workers, the commanders of CIVPOL (Civilian police from UN), the major, director of the school, the leader of the building brigades. If you sit here a day you meet them all. We have a short meeting about the appointment we have made last time and we split up Tom goes with Vanja and Goran, the co-leader from ARK for this camp to see the sleeping house and the building sides, and I go with Martin, the Irish chief of the UNOV office and his translator, together with the Danish journalist to the "other side". Martin lives in that part and knows the major well, so six minutes after we have crossed the check point we are sitting in the living room of the relative of the Major of this part of Pacras, he use to live at the Croatian side, but had to leave he say and with him 3000 more people from that side. According the statistics only 12 Croatian families went in the other direction. On the table stands the local rakija and soon he agrees to have an interview with the Danish journalist. In the past he is also been interviewed by Globus from Zagreb and that had a lot of impact on his local politics, the reaction was that "radicals from Knin" came to take over as he describe them. I asked him if he really let us to use that quote and he react that they knows what he thinks about them and that he is not afraid. After a while the Danish journalist needs to go to the toilet and find out what it means that there is no water and electricity, the toilet don't work. Everywhere in the place stand buckets with water, dirty water for the toilet, clean water for the other things. The washing machine stands ready programme and full up so the moment the electricity start he goes on. Martin told that he woke up this morning with the electric light on, forget to turn it of 6 days ago and since then there wasn't any electricity on the lines. I tell him the major that I want an explanation from what he said a ten days ago, when I met him with Plazter from Vienna. He talk that he didn't wanted to have a permanent school at this side of the UNPA lines, saying that his school was in the other part. So I wanted to know how he imagine himself that school. He tells me that he wants to organise a referendum in the whole area of Pacras on both sides, with as major question which main languages will be used at the school and which system. He claims that at least 75% will vote for a kind of Serbian system and he wonders if "Zagreb" would except it that on a school in Croatian a Serbian concept is used. On the tip of my tongue was the question how he would cope at that moment with the right of the Croatian minority on school, but I decided to leave that question to a later visit. On the way back Martin showed the Danish journalist one of the mine fields and we took photo's from her and me in bullet proof jackets, the temperature outside in the sun is about 35% Celsius or something and this jackets weight about 10 Kilogram. After 3 minutes I already started to wonder how those UNPROFOR soldiers at the check point are able to carry it all the time that they stand there. We pass by the hospital, which is Croatian side of the checkpoints and see that really not one window came through the fighting and the trainstation, a container, since the original station building is not more than a pile of stones. 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