Nachricht Nummer : 269 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 41 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ZER.sub.org Betrifft : Zagreb Diary 13 September, 1993 Erstellungsdatum : 14.09.1993 21:19:00 S+2 Realname: Wam Kat Zagreb Diary 13 September, 1993 Dobar dan, The week has started again and nevertheless my plan to go immediately back to Pakrac at the end of the weekend I have decided to stay here in Zagreb in order to update myself a bit about what in the hell is going on in the country at the moment. We can plan what ever we want but if things happen like in the last 3 days you need to have a glass ball to find out what it could mean for our project in Pakrac and Suncokret in Karlovac for example. I have tried about twenty times to reach Pakrac, but always got the answering machine in stay of an alive person. In the morning hours of today at least 150 shells landed on Karlovac, the material damage was huge, also at least 1 person was killed today, what brings the total over the weekend on 13 persons. And that is a lot, the refugee camp from UNHCR was also hit a couple of time. But that center lays really south in Karlovac, very near to the front-line. In Zagreb they have closed the airport today, the rocket of yesterday which had his impact in Velika Gorica has scared of a lot of people, that is the place where Zagreb airport really lays. And you never know what will be the next move. I hope that the situation has cleared up a bit before Thursday, since I really like to go to the Netherlands in order to collect a big amount of help for all what we have build up here. The last few days my mind is more and more concentrated on what to tell when I am at home. Not that I am afraid not able to fill the time, when the journalist of Daruvar radio asked me last Thursday to say something about our project I nearly used the whole hour to answer his simple question. But I have to think Dutch again and I have to explain it with Dutch examples, luckily enough I have some days left to concentrate myself on this job. Simo is still in jail, Mr. Plazter phoned from the European Peace University in Austria, where today a course of a month starts about peace building for people in International organisations, like the UN, to tell the people from the UNOV office in Pakrac that Simo is now in a special political jail in Zagreb, in the same block as some other Serbs, which are not part of the hard-liners, according the Knin politics. He has his own cell, can receive visitors and has a small television. His moral is as high as it can be under the circumstances and he still claims that he is innocent. Due to the changing situation in Croatia it is not real clear if he will come free this week, but the lawyer thinks that it is good possible that it will happen this week. You will see it happens of course just after the day that I left for the Netherlands. For the rest we got a phonecall from Ljubljana from Marko, who was for some time probably the only active peace activists in Slovenia, but that has changed again it seems. After talking a lot about it, it happened in the last weekend they the peace activists and youth has squatted a military barrack near the station. He phoned with the question if a group from Zagreb could come. But I think that there wouldn't be much people free in ARK to go. The small office in Tkalceciva is full of activities, it becomes far too small for everything which is happening in and around it. Nevertheless the political attacks ARK starts to become known in the country. ARKzin is growing and more and more professional journalist are joining Vesna in the work, the coming and last days they worked day and night on the next number. The number will go about one of the other items which is becoming more and more normal in Croatia, namely how to refuse the army, the attacks in public media are mainly aimed against those activities. The ARK hotline for C.O. is becoming a big success. But also successful are the seminars in peace education, in the coming school year some schools will start with peace education, one of those schools became very sudden, the school in the Croatian part of Pakrac. The teachers will get some small workshops during which things like nonviolence conflict resolution and nonviolence communications will be the main part. With help from abroad some books for children could be translated and published to be used on those schools. Our BBS is getting more and more used and the normality to play with modern equipment has reached a level on which some country in Western Europe really could be jalours. Thanks to Eric who was here such a long time we have now more and more people who really know how it works and some contacts are made with other BBS systems in the area. And also the other parts of ARK are doing fine. We survived another summer and the winter looks again full with more promises than last winter. We have grown a lot as group, or rather as network of individuals, lot's of people know now how to talk with foreign press and delegations. And it looks like that at last the group is growing again, new blood is coming in. ARK is still the place were new ideas are born and new initiatives are starting up. Strange how a small group of people can invoke such a reaction is a wonder and probably like a lot of things related closely with the war. Bok I Mir from Zagreb, Wam PS Between 16 September and 7 October I am in the Netherlands (reachable via +31,46,522709) in the time 28 September until 5 October I have some days free for my speakers tour). Also in that period there will be no Zagreb Diary, maybe after wards I will take up the daily exercise again, when I found a new computer that is. ------------------------------------------------------ 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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