Nachricht Nummer : 290 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 41 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.zer.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 24 October, 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 01.11.1993 22:28:00 W+1 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 24 October, 1993 Dobar dan, Sundays in Pakrac, it always something special, the people standing in a yard in open air church, the quietness and the people behaving like every other on a Sunday and than walking around a bit, talking a bit with friends and neighbours and not really knowing what to do. In most of the houses their is enough to do, so most people has at least in the afternoon something on their hands. That is at least the atmosphere how I translate it. This morning I went at early for a nice stroll in the neighbourhood (later I heard that Jojo also went out for a walk, but when he was in one of the small forest up in Preko Pakra and suddenly he remembered the story I told him about the Dutch soldier who got killed, he also just went into the forest and found a mine on his path, so Jojo went back) with some volunteers. Just when we came up the bridge of the Pakra we came across some people who should have left with the morning train so we were rather surprised. The train line to Kutina is blown up last night they told us. They drove up with the train and than were send back at the bridge. The people in the neighbourhood told them that all the windows in the neighbourhood had broken. It seemed pritty heavy, but when we came a little later in the Skorpija I didn't had the feeling that something really big has happened. People were discussing it as every thing what happens in this area connected to the war. Still there wasn't any tension in the air. Some people who I didn't saw yesterday evening congratulate me with the release of Simo yesterday and ask if I already had seen him (but that probably will take some days) and most important question when is he back in the office or will he come back in the office. I didn't know the answers at the questions yet, but said that it is really depending on the support they would give him when he comes. But that he probably would come back, not coming here would proof that he is innocent, not coming would give the feeling that he is afraid of something, maybe that he is guilty in some way or something like that. After that we went to walk to Lipik to see the orphanage, which is nearly totally rebuild by the first UNPROFOR commander of the sector. Half way the way we got a ride from somebody which I normally consider as one of the biggest "Utashe" of the city. He had already been out with a friend and therefore a little on it's way. He brought us to a pub there and we invited him for just one more beer. Since my speaking possibilities are not so big in Croatia, understanding goes, but I hardly can't get the words out my mouth, no unwill I just can't get it out. At such moments that is a little pritty, since he had a lot to tell me and thought that I couldn't understand it since I couldn't answer in his languages. I really have to learn it soon. Anyway any second moment he mentioned "Pisca matere" and so on and pointing out that Vanja had to be there. The talk on the cafe place took 4 pivo's and than I understood that he also was very happy that Simo was free and that it was one of his good friends. Further on that Kulic, the workbrigade leader on the "other side", should be free soon. More special was that he asked me to deliver some mail that the farther of one of his friends, the father lives on the "other side". He mentioned so often and so loud that it had to be secret that I was afraid that the special police agents on the table next to ours could follow the whole story. But they were obvious very involved in their own beer and the bridge. Our friend pointed them out when they left and said that they were "ludo" (crazy), all soldiers, or rather all those who were still soldiers were "ludo", it is time to change the war. From walking around in the town and seeing the orphanage so we joint him to taste his new rakija at his home. There the battle started again, we had one once, who can drink the most. It is a question of watching the other and see that you drink the same amount (or at least get the same amount in your glass) and stay relative clear. My farther told me a trick ones, before something like that is likely to happen take a bottle of milk and a handful of this carbon pills and you drink the biggest komsomol member under the table. Of course if you are so suddenly confronted with it you are not going to ask for milk and carbon pills, but you try to grab everything what you can find, especially bread or cake. Anyway at a certain moment he gave up and I finished him off with three more glasses. But I of course hadn't anything before I met him and I don't know what he had before. Anyway this will "improve" my reputation. And stupid enough it is a part of the life around here. We decided to walk home to the school rather than let him drive us. When I told the story to the other some hours later in Skorpija they really were surprise from what has happened. Maybe we are really watching the big break through. Blowing up a railway bridge is not just like one of those things which is happening daily around here and not for one moment I had the feeling that evening that anybody was really angry or upset from it. They simply discussed the strategy they had learned in JNA about guerrilla warfare and estimated were the next attack on the trainline would be. How in the hack can you explain to somebody outside this country what is going on, each of such things destroy every know how it thought I had build up. 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. 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