Nachricht Nummer : 191 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 35 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ZER.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 6 July, 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 19.07.1993 11:59:00 S+2 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 6 July, 1993 Dobar dan, Running, running, running and again running. Vesna and I were late, when the guy from UNPROFOR say 9.00 hours they mean 9 o'clock and not a second later. So when we left the house at just a few minute for 9 to be in time for the UNHCR security briefing it was clear that we were far to late in the UNHCR building. Especially nowadays when in Zagreb almost all trams has another route. Like last summer when the main street was broken up. Zagreb is busy to become a real metropolis and that means that all the main road in the centre has to be renewed. This summer their choice fall on Vlaska and Maksimir. Anyway were about 15 minute late and when we came in the UNPROFOR liaison officer was already nearly finished with his story. It wasn't Mike this time, but the Dutch guy I met some weeks back in the building, he comes from the Dutch Antilles and his English is totally different from Mike's Oxford. Since we are not the only ones who are far too late for the normal 9 o'clock briefing he decided to do it ones more. Again nothing special in Croatia, they only thing he mentioned is that the sector North the Krajina Serbian army is getting build up, but it is not clear what is really happening and why. In BiH however the situation is getting more and more complex. The situation in Sarajevo seems to be much more quiet than about a week ago, but as always the quietness is relative, we are so use to it that it can start any moment again. From the building of UNHCR Vesna decided to go immediately to the UNPROFOR headquarters in order to get an UNPROFOR presscard. Since ARKzin is registrated as an official newspaper she is entitled to get such presscard and she could come with me to Pacras one of this weeks to make an interview with the major on the other side. He did that some months ago (about 5 months) with Globus and that cost him his position as vice president of the Serbian Krajina republic, according to the hard-liners in Knin he was to soft for his job. In the last weeks it seems to be changing again. You have the feeling that somehow the hard-liners have giving up the strict line, at least in Western Slavonia. I run to the station to get their in time to say the first group of volunteers good-bye who will go to Pacras. They will go by train, such a classic diesel one which stops at every farmer which is standing in the filed along the train line. I am trying to imagine what we have forgotten to tell them, this is the first group of Suncokret volunteers who really go into the warzone. The next 2 and half weeks they will stay about 2 till 300 meters away from the front- line. All of them are very exiting, it looks a lot if they go on a school trip, after that attack on Zoran some days ago in the Croatian newspapers by Krpina, one of the leading HDZ members I am a little afraid of what we are doing. Now the Anti War Campaign is called a fifth colone organisations, what will it mean if we are directly co-operating with Serbian authorities on the other side. I would love to join them on their travel down, but I have piles of work waiting for me, my computer, the laptop has more and more problems and somehow I must get it working before that group from the states comes to film me. Everything seems to fall in place at the last weeks, but I am more nervous then ever before, somehow I like the improvisation better, at the moment it is all heavy. Not that everything is cleared yet, the news from all the different organisations is not the most positive we have heard so far. All of them have some problems to survive in the near future. It is surely not easy to raise funds at the moment, we maybe in the middle point of the press but that don't means that money is coming in big numbers. When all that promotion things are blown over I will try to concentrate myself again on fund raising, since that will be necessary. When I phone later in the evening to Pacras to find out how their arrival was I heard that there was a whole delegation waiting for them on what use to be the Pacras main station. When Vanja saw it from the window just before they arrived see was a little confused, she didn't knew that some officials where also in the train, since why would HTV and some journalist otherwise standing there waiting for that train to arrive. Coming out the train it was immediately clear this whole bunch of reporters and official town council people was not waiting for one or another high politician from Zagreb, who probably never would come by train anyway, but for our volunteers. So they came into the place as if they were to most important people who ever visit the town since the siege fire was signed. A little later we saw in Zagreb the result on the news from what happened their on the station. Completely unexpected the whole bunch of organisation which are involved in the Pacras project were mentioned on the official news. Including the Anti War Campaign, not in their Croatian name, but in English, but never the less the officials of Pacras reacted very positive on what we are planning to do in this area. Even the fact that we will official work on both sides on the front-line seems to not really be a problem. So maybe we at last will be able to do what I wanted to do in the first place. 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