Nachricht Nummer : 286 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 35 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.zer.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 31 October, 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 01.11.1993 00:00:00 W+1 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 31 October, 1993 Dobar dan, Blowing up trainlines seems to be the biggest thing at the moment around Pakrac, last week Saturday night the bridge on the line from Kutina to Pakrac and yesterday a train on the way from Pakrac to Virovitica drove on a couple mines, there were laying around 3 or 4 and the locomotive let the first one exploded, again no wounded persons and this time the damage wasn't so big as last week, today most of it already was repaired. It is always again a shock to hear what is going on in an area you know so well. Sometimes being there really don't be enough to know what has happened. You hear all kind of rumours, but since we don't have a television in Pakrac we always have to hear the stories out of the third or fourth hand if we didn't were involved ourselves. When I left Pakrac everything was quiet, today in the list of villages which were under shooting I heard, beside the known names like Zadar, and the small villages in it's hinterland, suddenly also the names from Pakrac and Preko Pakra (they said light fire arms, so guns and riffles). Strange is that when you hear those other names you are not really interested anymore, they are mentioned every day. But than suddenly the place, which becomes more or less my second home in this country, I want to know every bloody detail. No wounded is not enough anymore. I want to know from where the shots came, and what was hit, if it just were celebration shots for a wedding on "the other side" or that somebody or somebodies have been actual aiming and shooting. I can imagine that displaced persons and relative from people in those other villages, which are mentioned daily in the list of village under fire have the same reactions. And the thousands refugees from villages in Bosnia, which are not mentioned at all, where maybe nothing is happening, or from where no news is travelling to this region or which are so destroyed that there is actual no village anymore. Still if you are not there and you know or awaits that there are still relatives or friends or even parts of your own house are left you like to know more. You know from the danger in those regions. Another picture today, the spot about Sarajevo on MTV, it ends with a little boy, who write "help" on a little piece of paper and bind it to the leg of a pigeon. He throw the bird into the air in the hope that somebody out there maybe receive his message and send help. But before the bird reaches the sky it was shot. This scene was probably not recorded in Sarajevo, but you never know, it looked more like the scene out of a music clip (poor pigeon, which had to die for it, you may think). I remember earlier pictures from Sarajevo, UNPROFOR soldiers laying on the ground in order to figure out from where the grenade came that hit a football place and killed some children. In my mind I see UNPROFOR soldiers looking at the dead pigeon trying to find out who shot. Maybe the "enemy" shot the bird, maybe somebody who had hunger and saw the meat for his soap passing by. Anyway that feeling your message is not coming across, it is not getting pass the violence is something I can feel well. I recognise that banging on the wall around us trying to get through, hopeful to reach somebody or rather somebodies out there who has an idea how to stop this spiral staircase going down. Pakrac and most of Croatia is nothing to compare with cities as Sarajevo or Tuzla and all those other place. Help is coming, but somehow it is not (yet) stopping the ongoing possibility, the feeling, that tomorrow the war will start again. Last week the reactions in Pakrac on the bombing of the railway bridge was a little cool. Nobody seem to show his or her real feelings, considering the emotions at other times before. The only reactions I got was more or less a kind of prediction that in a few days some other bridges or train connection could be hit also, like yesterday you would say. Some people explained that this shows that the "chetniks" fight a lost fight. Since, according to those who told me, in the JNA you were trained to fight such a guerrilla like war if you could see any way out. Nearly everybody has been member of JNA, like everybody boy and girl has learned how the shoot a gun on high school, so everybody has learn this strategy, also the one who told me this story. That is a part of the war, trying to figure out what the "enemy" thinks and what his next move will be. A kind of chessplay on a very strange playboard. Or rather a play of poker, since in your deeds your anticipate on what the other maybe will do, or what the other has up his sleeve. Also a game of provocation's and reactions, would this mining on the Croatian side be a provocation or a reaction on a provocation and what will be the reaction. A few days ago I heard Glavas from Osijek in his speech during which he tries to proof what kind of peace angel he is, how many peace proposals he already had send to Knin and still haven't received any real reaction. Is this all part of the theatre play to make the world understand that there is no other way out of this path situation else than another full scale war or are we really in an other time and are we moving towards a peace full solution, for Croatia at least.... 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