Nachricht Nummer : 276 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 37 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ZER.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 17 October, 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 21.10.1993 19:01:00 W+1 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 17 October, 1993 Dobar dan, So it is time that I start with the normal diary again. Yesterday I had an appointment with some officials from UN office of Vienna in Hotel Intercontinental especially about the steps to undertake on the Serbian side of Pakrac. In the small month that I was gone a lot has happened there. The most important is probably the arrested of the three persons who sign last year the so-called "Darovar" agreement, a kind of blueprint for the future co-operation between the both sides (Serbian Krajina and Croatia) in sector West. The three always are mentioned as "wam's big friends on the other side" in the Croatian part of Pakrac, so we don't have to mention their names. Even when you talk English or even Dutch with eachother in a public places, some people in Pakrac will look with a rather funny look at you when you recognise their names. Anyway Djakula (the un-official mayor of the Serbian part) and his close friends Kulic (the leader of the working brigades on the Serbian side) and Ecimovic (the initiator of the idea to establish a free radio in Pakrac) are arrested on the 22 of September by the militia from Knin. Besides from some articles in the Croatian newspapers not much is said in the International press about this. In the time of the Daruvar agreement they all three were part of the Serbian Krajina parliament and government, very fast after they signed it they were removed from their places. It took me so long to wrote about this arrests since we were not clear how to react. As long as I know Djakula now he has been afraid of his life and my contacts with him are probably one of the possible reasons that he is arrested. Or rather his overall co-operation with International organisation without being a formal Serbian Krajina state official. Already a few times the official authorities had said that the International organisations should not make agreements and plans with him, but only with them. Djakula and we continued to cooperate together, not knowing what the effects would be for his safety and our projects. Although most of the people on the Croatian side of Pakrac would still consider him as a warcriminal, more and more people on that side started to say openly that he probably was the only person who would maybe be able to break the path situation Krajina and Croatia, especially in sector West. Articles in Globus (in the time of the Daruvar talks) and Danas, just a few months ago described him as somebody who still has too radical Serbian ideas, but with whom you still could talk about the a peaceful solution in the future. After his arrest I was afraid that Croatia would make a martyr out of him. Besides the small article in a Croatian Daily this didn't happened up to now. Although I know that Djakula in a way believes in Croatia or rather Slavonia (where his family has lived for nearly 400 years), he is never would agree with the Croatian state as we know it now. He would be able, maybe, to call himself a Croatian citizen, but never a Croat. He is ethnically Serbian and would never give up his Serbian culture and identity. That includes things as language and education, but also includes more principal discussion like could somebody refuse to join the Croatian Army for political rather than consciences reasons (literally f.e. that you can say I refuse the army since I don't like to fight members of my own ethnical origin (or more general since I am not agree with this particular war), but I am not a pacifists) (and maybe I refuse to do alternative service as well). I used this last example to make clear that the way to come to peace and close co-operation is not so simple as it may sound. And that although you could talk with Djakula about a lot of things, there would have gone a lot of water through the Sava before the Serbian part of Sector West would become peacefully part of the Republic of Croatia. When Vuk was in jail in Beograd even Mitterand's wife went to Beograd to make pressure. Djakula is already nearly a month in jail and we don't know anything about his health and the accusations made against him. One of the reasons is that nobody really knows what will happen with him if a lot of publicity is made, maybe high diplomatic actions would have more effects. Like the policy when Simo was arrested almost 2 months ago on the Croatian side (he is by the way still in jail, in hospital are the last messages (since he has got heart problems)), but also up to now without the final result. Although I realise the dangers involved I would stress that the International community openly use their pressure, f.e. through Amnesty International, that all those 4 in jail (and all other for that matter) get's as soon as possible a fair courtcase and that those courtcases are international organised. I realise that this is another type of diary entrance as what you probably have been used to, but after my visit to Hotel Intercontinental I hardly couldn't think about anything else than how to find help for my "friends" in jail. We started the project together and we should be there together when the project really comes into a working stage, without those 4 we never would be were we are at the moment in Pakrac. But I must say it was hard to find the right words to write this day, without giving to wrong (political) feeling 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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