Nachricht Nummer : 476 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 42 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ztn.zer.de (Wam) Betrifft : Zagreb Diary on 14 April, 1994 Kopienempfänger : /REG/NEWS/DIARY/WAM, /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN, /SOC/CULTURE/BOSNA-HERZGVNA, /SOC/CULTURE/CROATIA, /SOC/CULTURE/YUGOSLAVIA Erstellungsdatum : 18.04.1994 07:08:00 S+2 Zagreb Diary 14 April, 1994 Dobar dan, Yesterday evening, I had a late night meeting with some journalists who came to Zagreb to examine the new political situation. Everybody is sure that soon the political spectrum will change in this country. It seems that HDZ is really falling apart, or at least destroying it self. The right and the left wing sides of the party are getting fired or go out themselves, soon probably a new party of Croatian Democrats will be formed. But it seems that HSLS (the Liberals) will win the elections, if there were any. The rest of the talks we joked a bit about the family Tudjman and there financial, some journalists are trying to figure out what kind of emporium they have builded up in the last 2 years. Sure is that his daughter is owning all the tax free shops in the country, he oldest son, is owning, beside from being a member of the security council of Croatia, all the place were you have to learn shooting if you want to have a weapon licence (what a lot of people want), an other son is in charge of all the supplies (food, clothes, etc.) for Croatian army, or something like that, it could be that I mix up some sons and grand sons, but clear is that the family have builded up beside the political power and very well fundamental financial and economical empire as well. Vesna waked up early, she had to go to the printer, since today is one of the big days in the month, ARKzin is getting printed. I went to ARK to look if the computers were still working and till my big surprise they were. I spend time watching if them and see if they could be left alone for a while. And than I left the building since in principle I should go to Pakrac today. I just went outside and there I bumped into a whole group of Pakrac Volunteers. Yesterday evening there was a concert from the Irish "7 Kevin's" here in Zagreb and at least 14 long term volunteers couldn't refuse it and came over. So I had the ideal change to ride back with them, up to the moment that I seen their car. It was hardly unimaginable how it was possible the 14 people in one way or another were able to sit in such a small car, but it worked. We waited a while till they all arrived and we could leave back for Pakrac, picked up my things at Vesna's place. And on the way to the town, we passed by the burned and blown out munitions warehouse and a little longer we entered the highway. Two hours later I was back in Pakrac, about half an hour more than normal. It is market day, but in many way there is a hanging a strange atmosphere in the town. The first thing what I see is that Skorpija is closed. Somebody tells that some persons died yesterday, but it take a few hours more before I collect the whole story. Yesterday 3 police agents and a doctor went into the forest to start detecting the mine's and maybe clean a few on their way. Somehow it went wrong, and working on one mine, they hit the wire from a trapmine, that mine went up and two of the police agents and the doctor died, the third police agent was heavily wounded. At least that was the story which was mostly told in the city, problem was that nobody, besides the four have really seen it happening. One of the guys who died yesterday is on the photo in Skorpija, when I saw Jura he told me that it is a good friend of him. An hour later I see Ralphy, also he is in a bad mood, the other police boy who died was a friend from school, they have been sitting in the same class for almost 13 years. Just half an hour before it happened the boy had stopped him and some volunteers as a joke in the middle of the time. At the police station and the opcina there re hanging black flags, some how I have the feeling that more people are reacting on this dead than when 8 police guys were killed last year when the were trapped in an ambush, the biggest problem with this dead is probably that it was an own mine, you can't blame it on any "foreign" enemy. In most of the pubs and on the streets you meet small groups of discussing men, in the pubs a lot are sitting at the take, looking at eachother and drinking. Sasa and Ivo were known in the town, I knew them as well, but the both were really children from Pakrac town and dying at the end of the war, just now all the peace (cease-fire) agreements are been signed, it is too hard. I realise that we probably will have a lot of this events in the near future, also the last day's there was some shooting from each side to the other side. Peace is made in Zagreb and Knin, but it is not really arrived here. Time's are a changing, but not so fast as some politicians wants. We are a bit afraid of what will happen in the coming months, but I am sure that this three bodies aren't the last ones we bring to their graves. The coming days will also be hard, people busy with themselves and their thoughts, how it started and what happened up to now. In the evening we spend time in the other pub we frequently come, the middle daughter was having her birthday and she is a big friend of Nirwana, the suicide of their singer didn't real help the girls in this town, by the way, those idols are very important for them. So we bought some tapes of the group in Zagreb and promise to try to get a letter from Chris, the bass player, for her, Chris is Croat, although he don't read or write the languages. Mir from somewhere in Hrvatska, 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.ztn.zer.de . 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. 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