Nachricht Nummer : 307 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 27 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.zer.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 16 November, 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 17.11.1993 17:47:00 W+1 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 16 November, 1993 Dobar dan, The weather is still hopeless, the combination melting and snowing is continuing and maybe it is a little bit better than yesterday, but it is hopeless. When we pass the round building on the square of the Big Croats the nice red and blue band, which to hang around the building some weeks ago, has become so heavy that have of it lays on the ground, rather symbolic. The trams are still breaking down and the result is that when they drive to drive in flocks (4 or 5 trams with the same number directly after eachother and than half hour or more none). The last days I didn't saw any beggar in the town, but walking from the National bank to the main square I see a young girl, with a baby sitting on the cold and wet ground. I feel my body siffering when I pass her by. On the main square again a lot of people are standing in front of the exchange office, Vesna and I are looking at it and decide that we will try to change money for paying our telephone bill some other time. Maybe, who knows, this mass with the impossibility of changing money will be over soon. Early this morning I got a phonecall from the US world report, not that ever have heard from them, but it seems to be a rather known paper in the states, they wrote an article about us using the InterNet. Their photo journalist based in Zagreb needed to make some pictures from me so I agreed he could do as long as he drove me to Pakrac. We stopped at Kutina to see how the people of the Peace circus were doing. Every time I come to the Kutina refugee camp I am surprised how relaxed it is organised, no gates, no guards, no people coming up to you asking what in the hell are you doing here. Just small houses in the meadow, the peace circus bus stood in front of the office building and when I went in I found a complaining Teet, they, from the camp, collected them, the peace bus, from the station in Kutina yesterday, but nobody really knew what they came to do there. He was still talking about it when Kristof from Sweden entered the bus telling that they had more work, more performances in the next days than they ever could do. Kristof just went around the camp and even to the hotel in town, where the new coming refugees from Vares has been hosted. And than Teet explained that they had a nice performances yesterday evening, just after they arrived. He just went into the community building to get warm, taking his guitar with him and within no time to whole building was full of people asking him to play. It is still melting and snowing at the same time, a big mass. The journalist, who comes from Zagreb, tells that it reminds him on the last time that he was in Pakrac, somewhere in the winter of 1991, during the big fight's in that area. Also than it was snowing. He couldn't go into Pakrac at that time, since it was in those days heavily under fire and a lot more of the town was not under Croatian control. During the car ride I am reading a fax which comes from UNPROFOR, it just arrived a few minutes after I arrived in the peace center. It is a happy fax in many ways. UNPROFOR declares that after their complains last weeks about the heavy Croatian armament near the sector and the special police forces in the sector, finally today the Croatian, with the help of UNPROFOR (they gave some trailers for transport), army and police have started their withdraws, by the end of the week their should be not a single soldier more in this area than around the 3th of January last year (which was demanded by the Serbian side). So it get's better again. On the road from Kutina to Pakrac he furthermore told that that gas explosion yesterday in the postoffice in Zagreb wasn't a gas explosion but a bomb, at least that's what they told him on his presscenter. The reason for not telling it to the public was, according to him, that they, the state officials, didn't want to create panic in the town. Natasja, with whom I spend a few months down in Hercegovina in the beginning of this year, also went with us to Pakrac. In a few months they also want to start with a rebuilding project with volunteers in Ravno and she wants to see how it functions here. A bit proud I show her our house and office. In both places the heather's are on and although we don't have water yet in the office house (and no gas) it is already in use. The computer which I delivered yesterday is already in full use and hopefully the telephone also works. Coming into Skorpija I hear somebody calling my name and look back, it is the Croatian liaison officer between UNPROFOR and Croatian army, he must have been sitting already for a while on the take, since his english is lot more unstable than normally, he asked me if I am still knowing him and if I can remember our last talk some weeks ago. Of course I still know you, how can I forget. I see him for the first time in uniform and asked surprise why he has only one star, I thought that he was much higher than a sergeant. You overlook the stripe he says, one stripe and one start that makes me Major. 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. 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