Nachricht Nummer : 281 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 28 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.zer.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 19 October, 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 30.10.1993 05:01:00 W+1 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 19 October,1993 Dobar dan, After we had our joke yesterday afternoon with that police chap on the road from Japaga to Lipik, we drove to the houses, which Caritas Nord Rhein-Westfalen (Germany) build for displaced people from this area in Lipik near the what use to be railway station. There the journalists filmed an old lady, who lived in one of those wooden houses and from the window of her house she could see the pile of stones of what use to be her house, just 150 meter down the road. Emotional see told the story who she had to leave the house and how she found it back a few months later. We walked through her what use to be house in order to find something, what we didn't knew. The old lady was surrounded by a couple of young children, from whom each could point out another pile of stones in the same street, saying "moj kucja" (my house). We also met a few people, who only could point over the cease fire line in the direction of Japaga (on the Serbian Krajina side of UNPA West), with the same words. They could only see their house with the zoom lens he could put on his camera. We went on till it was too dark to see anything and returned back to Skorpija. In Skorpija we met "little Ana", our 18 years old volunteer from Osijek, who just had returned to Pakrac, she actually had planned to spend some weeks in Osijek to rest from the summer she had spend in Pakrac, but after a few days the Pakrac spirit got her back under her wings and she had to return to this point in her country. A few days ago she held her famous "fashion show", which she was planning all summer. It became a very successful event in one of the other (bigger) pubs in the town (Papiga). Over 200 people tried to get in to look at the show putted up by 7 local models from about 16 year dressing clothes of the 60'ties and 70'ties, which were put together from old clothes we had got from the red cross. Also the Croatian television had shown interest in the whole thing and showed it all in the prime time news, broadcasting for the first time in a long period a picture from Pakrac with had nothing to do (directly) with the war. Later in the evening I ended up drinking with Davor and the UNPROFOR liaison officer from Croatia, a tittle which took about half his visiting card. A nice guy, who had a lot of stories to tell about what all happened in the last summer and who knew Simo well, also surprised that he was still in jail in Zagreb. In the morning we drove back to "the other side", firstly to film more houses there, which were destroyed and the working groups, which had a free day yesterday, because of the rain, but mostly to show the mayor there the film we made yesterday in Lipik from his house. When we came the Opcina on "the other side" was full with people and they all stood around "their mayor" when he looked into a mini LCD screen in order to recognize what use to be his house. The reactions, which came out that small crowd of people looking at that pile of stones and the interviews with the neighbours on for them "the other side" was fantastic, although they were all emotional about what they saw, the atmosphere in the small room stayed friendly. Since the journalist couldn't show and record with one camera on the same time a few moments later they all showed that they were nice theatre amateurs playing that they show the same thing for the first time on that little screen, but looking at a black box. After that we went out to film one of the building sites on this side. On the T-crossing we came on a site where about 25 people we placing a new roof on a house, the old one didn't survived the shooting. The old lady who lived there came immediately with the Rakija bottle and a few minutes later I was sitting and playing with her grandchildren in the only part of the building which had survived the fighting, the kitchen. One after the other workers came in to have a coffee and a stronger zip from the famous bottle. The journalists wanted to film some other parts of the normal life on this side, but our translator said that we first had to go back to the Opcina in order to ask permission, since we only asked for filming the building site. The mayor send us to the police, who send us back to the mayor, who told us that we had to come back tomorrow since he had to ask some others about it. Although the atmosphere looks maybe quiet the people are afraid to break one rule of the book at the moment, with three of their follow inhabitants in jail because of the fact that those three probably talked too much with foreigners, I can imagine. Back on the Croatian side of the line we drove back to Lipik with Svetlana in order to film some of the Croatian working brigade. They were working just a few meters from the UNPROFOR checkpoint, where they were taking down and cleaning some totally destroyed houses. The Argentinians of the checkpoints, which had nothing to do in days, since hardly anybody will ever pass this checkpoint also gave a helping hand. And of course on each working place the famous bottle came out of the bags. 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