Nachricht Nummer : 477 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 38 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ztn.zer.de (Wam) Betrifft : Zagreb Diary on 16 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 09:06:00 S+2 Zagreb Diary 16 April, 1994 Dobar dan, Yesterday it was in many days a strange day, I started as early as normal in Pakrac and the first thing I did was walking to "the other side" with a visitor from the Netherlands. There of course was some time happening again what wasn't planned. When we walked down the road, we met Ceddo (which is by the way a nick name, Croats were calling all Serbs "Ceddo", as short for Chetnik), he was trying to get his permission from the police station to stay in the Serbian Pakrac region, we need to get that permission every 4 weeks, but often there is nobody in charge of making them. Behind the school ("Buducnost" supermarket) I heard a lot of noise and went to look, till my big surprise there were a whole team of UNPROFOR SloBat (Slovenia Battalion, technical and engineering group) busy with some UNDP/UNOV containers (roughly said our containers). Some how somebody had given them an order to put them next to eachother and remove the middle wall. This is mostly not such a hard job, with a small screwdriver you can do it in half an hour, the removing of the middle wall, I mean. Nobody however seems to have told them, so they were busy with sledge hammer and axes to remove it. In front of the container a pile of broken aluminium plates and isolation material was growing, some locals already got their wheelbarrow to collect it. Behind the Militia station, 15 meters down the road, two other containers were placed, obvious the ones we would like to use as kindergarten. We were just in time to save those two from the same destination. For the time being it was of course great that suddenly something started to move, we have been waiting on it for almost 3 months now, but we hoped that it wouldn't be as "carefully" done as this operation. And that was just a top of the ice berg from things which weren't done, which has to be done and which were done, which didn't had to be done. But that is life. I went back to "the other side" seen from here, in order to figure out if we weren't doing anything wrong by stopping the SloBat guys during their work, maybe somebody else from UNOV/UNDP had given them the "orders". But as soon as I arrived at the house of the Austrian volunteers is was clear that also they didn't knew thing from it. They had seen that 4 of the containers were moved, but we are used to that, I told you before containers have an own life around here, but that was it. Later I walked down the road further to Japaga to see what has happened with our and ICRC/UNHCR seeds program. I heard and had seen that the seeds from ICRC/UNHCR had arrived ten days ago, but they haven't started yet to give them to the people and I wanted to know why, I also heard that the other stuff we "ordered" 10 days ago hadn't arrived yet, but that didn't surprise me. At the Red Cross they told me one of the most unbelievable stories I ever heard. The seeds from ICRC/UNHCR came from Osijek and Varazdin, both laying in the Croatian government controlled part of Croatia. The people from this part however wanted to see first if the seeds weren't poisoned, (in my head a little voice said, maybe they believed that UNHCR would send bags full of very small little landmines or landmines seeds or something). Yesterday however they found out that the seeds were good and so they started to distribute them. We are so lucky that the last weeks it has been raining a lot and it wasn't that hot as last year, otherwise it all had come weeks to late. In the late evening I ended up with two volunteers who obvious had some personal problems with each other, when I started to act as intermediar between them after a few hours the upcoming sun showed me that it had cost me a whole night. I felt a bit rotten about it since a representative from our donor would come in the early morning and I wasn't in what you can call the best shape. The next two hours I more or less acted intensively but I don't think I made a good impression. Bit what do you want it has been a heavy week and I have heard a lot of stories from people, which are stocked in my head. Later in the day I went back up with one of the Austrian volunteers to be at the opening of Manfred's community center, at last it is ready, he has been busy with it since the beginning of December, but it is there now, it need some painting but soon the first lessons and training's can start. Actual I should have gone to bed directly after the morning session, the night without sleep and an un-cured cold were to much for me and although it was good to see everybody involved in it on this side I wasn't really able to talk a lot and surely not a high level. After three hours I hardly could stand on my legs anymore, there are such days that everything seems to work against you and you are not really getting the things done you should do. Therefor I was so glad that when I returned back in the office house of the volunteers that suddenly Vesna J. came out of the door, looking good and not sick. I feel into a deep sleep, but around 12 o'clock I was waked up by some shooting outside, I looked at the watch, remember the day and was sure that somewhere out there some people probably have a wedding party. 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