Nachricht Nummer : 478 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 43 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ztn.zer.de (Wam) Betrifft : Zagreb Diary on 17 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 10:28:00 S+2 Zagreb Diary 17 April, 1994 Dobar dan, Sunday as always are half half resting days, at least I try to make them that way. Mostly that don't really works, also today there were a lot of visitors, but most important of course for me was Vesna J., although we seen eachother just a couple of days ago, I am always enormous happy to see her here in Pakrac. The morning was rainy and dark, although very early in the morning the birds were still singing later during the day it started to rain harder and harder and when we came out of bed, I was reading a travel guide for Yugoslavia, written in '91 for a few hours (very funny, if you think what has happened just after that guide came out), the rain was just beaten half half by the sun, and the rest of the day looked if it would be beautiful sunshine. So we went walking in a part of Croatian controlled Pakrac where I only has been ones before. The street called the street of the 11th Division and lays as it were on the front-line, just in front of our office. This seems to have been a very rich part of the town, big private houses, with huge garden on the edge of the forest (now mine filed and cease-fire line). In the street it seems there have been living a lot of Serbian people, although most building also shows signs from really heavy street fighting, it is clear that a lot of house were also blown up afternoon. Not many people walk in this road, it is far too close to the front-line and most people who use to live here are now on the "other side". There for I was rather surprised to see that also in this part of the town the gas company had been busy in the last weeks. Every house, some times not more than one wall standing had got a new gasmeter and a new gas connection. Some times you only could see the brand-new gaspipes coming out of the earth, with on top of it a meter. Already in the town this is often very hilarious to see, houses without roofs, broken walls, no windows and burned out completely but with brand new gaspipes on the remaining wall, pipes which leads to no-where. During our walk Vesna told me a story about a junkie in Zagreb, he is born in Beograd and came to Croatia about 5 years ago, his name is unique, Jugoslav Pavlovic, a name which obvious shows, at least in Zagreb his Serbian nationality. The guy is slim and more dead than alive, as so many junkies. Somehow the Croatian police picked him up a few weeks ago and found heroin in his place. The police agent who had to do the research and who had to question him was rather new as police agent. It was a former Croatian front-line soldiers, who also just returned a few weeks ago from fighting as volunteer on the fronts in BiH. Not particular the same type of person as this junkie. We know about this story since it was published in one of the Croatian newspapers, were they also explained that the boy was questioned with the help of a baseball bat, if you announce the word baseball phonetic it means in Croatian something very near to "painless", people told me. So the junkie explained more or less that he was beaten up with a "painless bat". We continued our walk with a short stop in Skorpija, yesterday it opened again, after being closed for two days, on Friday it was also closed since the funeral of the three guy was taken place. When I came in yesterday, Buba, who normally stands behind the take in the afternoon was dressed up in black and her eyes were red from crying. One of the guys was a good friend of her and it obvious had made a big impact on her. Half half she told me that just half an hour before it happens they were still sitting at the take in Skorpija together and played darts. Now she was in a better mood, like most people in the town. We don't forget but live has to go on. It at least made clear to me why I myself was in such a bad mood on Saturday, I always have a lot of problems when there is something like that happening and especially when I know the people it is hard to take distance. From there we went on to look at a possible camping site for the summer and I visit for the first time one of the destroyed building of the Papuk wood company. We tried to walk on places which were more or less sure that somebody had walked before on that path in the last 2 years, the mine story is deep in our minds again and you realise that they can lay every where, not only on the front-line. When we came back at the office house in front of the office was a German car standing with big on the side the word "Mir". In the office they told me that people from the Balkan Peace Team had arrived, they were on there way to Osijek, but made a short detour to drop Cecilia and Burkie of, they had spend the last days in Zagreb. Our friends from Nexus-(Konak (Konak is Turkish (Muslim) for a small hostel)) had their house warming party yesterday in their new house and that's were all meet eachother. It seems to have been a great party. The rest of the evening we spend talking about possible connection of the Balkan Peace Team and our activities. But is seems that this first team will go to Split soon to help people down there with there activities. Nevertheless it would be great to find some people with more group dynamic experiences and peace building ideas. Since some times you really need to have some reflection of other people to know if you are still on the right track. 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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