Nachricht Nummer : 318 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 36 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.comlink.de (Wam) Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 30 November, 1993 Kopienempfänger : /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN Erstellungsdatum : 06.12.1993 19:44:00 W+1 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 30 November, 1993 Dobar dan, The way back from Okucani to Zagreb took a lot more hours than normal, not only because we ended up in a kind of blizzard, but also since we spend a lot of time explaining the Nepal UNPROFOR battalion that we were on our way from Pakrac to Zagreb, via the Serbian part of the sector and that we didn't liked to be send back all the way to Pakrac. A little later we had the same experience with the Croatian checkpoint and behind that we bumped into a Croatian police car, with two agents who had nothing better to do than drive a few times around our bus, check out the passports, drove away, check again, ask to write down were we came from and were the Circus had played in the last two weeks, drive away again, slip in the snow, turn a few time around their axes and finally asked Kristof how he could juggle, explaining that they also juggle but with kinderjaja (handgrenades), before he decided to show it we were allowed to pass. A few kilometre further we found a Yugo who digged himself out of the snow on the highway, the guy used something for it, which was not much bigger than a soupspoon and when we watch him we were sure that he was already busy for some hours. We jump out the bus and helped him, ten minutes later Kristof pulled him out and the driver was so surprised that he immediately digged himself in at the other side of the road. We looked at eachother try to figure out if he was drunk, driving in the wrong direction on the road, but he was not smelling at all. We pulled him out again and waved when he left us driving on the wrong side. Ten kilometer further a Renault had simular problems, only this one stood with his noose in the right direction. Although we didn't had the feeling that it was heavily snowing I could see from Kristof's face that he had a hard time keeping the bus on the road. Behind Kutina it became better, more cars are driving here, but we saw that people from the direction of Zagreb were driving in convoy behind the snow machines, so we knew that we were still heading for the worst part. At the pay station it cost some time to make the guy clear that at Okucani you don't get tickets, he looked at me with a face, yes guy you can tell me everything, but in Okucani only UN cars get on the road, but charged us nevertheless the full price. Driving into Zagreb it became more and more clear that here it must have been snowing since yesterday evening and that it would be hard to go up the road to the Peace Hostel, since probably it wasn't possible to get closer than 5 Kilometres away from it. We drove up to Vesna's house in order to make a small telephone call and the bus didn't wanted to move again, blocking the road completely, after a while we gave up and now a day later they are still standing there at the middle of the road and nobody really cares. Yesterday evening the local authorities declared Zagreb to disaster area and call up all the people from civil defence in order to get the main road free of snow. The whole day everything had to do something with snow, the whole tram system broke down and nobody really matters, for one or another reason such things are bringing people back together, the peace bus people received some wood from a friendly neighbour and I advise them not to tell that they just came back from Okucani. Also in BiH it was snowing, the air traffic to Sarajevo could be totally forgotten, still in this area has fallen a lot more than down in the south, according to friends in Dalamatia it is even like spring down there. When I visit my house on Brace Domany I saw a man coming down the stairs totally dressed up to join a pole expedition, with moon boots, fir coat and all the other things, he walked outside saw the parking place and decided to commit suicide by laughing, how he could ever find back his car in this white field with small hills under which probably were some cars, but maybe when the snow will melt the found out that all are stolen during the night. No Zagreb has totally changed over the last two days. The Peace bus should leave today for Rijeka, but without snow tracks that is simply impossible, there for Kristof spend the whole day looking around if he could find somewhere something which could help him. Due to the snow two convoy's which would leave today for Jajce and Velika Kladusa couldn't leave from Zagreb. Another convoy on it's way to Tuzla had to return because of the heavy fighting between Bosnian Serb forces and BiH armija in the neighbourhood of Maglaj and around Olovo. One message in all that news what stroke me a lot was the message that some days ago some children and a woman were brought to a hospital after a BiH armija attack on their village and according to the press release the soldiers from BiH armija should have used poison gas. This stroked me since the first time that something like that was mentioned was in the early days of the fights in BiH, back in April last year, when Semra was still sending out her press releases from the bunker in the presidency in Sarajevo and I know how angry I was on those idiots who used poison from their aeroplanes. Semra was and still is Muslim and those idiots were the JNA (Serbians mostly), who would think in those days that ever the situation would become as it is now. 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. 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