Nachricht Nummer : 481 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 43 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ztn.zer.de (Wam) Betrifft : Zagreb Diary on 19 April, 1994 Kopienempfänger : /REG/NEWS/DIARY/WAM, /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN, /SOC/CULTURE/BOSNA-HERZGVNA, /SOC/CULTURE/CROATIA, /SOC/CULTURE/YUGOSLAVIA Erstellungsdatum : 03.05.1994 09:45:00 S+2 Zagreb Diary 19 April, 1994 Dobar dan, After we finished yesterday afternoon, with the six of us, Dzakula arrived after an hour, almost all the 24 bottle from the box, mixed a bit with the local brandy, rakija, from which both sides are agree that the Serbs are making the best, the Croats seems to be better in wine making (the Czechs in beer (StaroCesko = old Czech), the Albanians in baking (nearly all the bakeries in the whole sector (but also else where in Croatia) are run by them, the Muslims (in Pakrac) in Burek making, etc.), it was time for business. At last there is a bit of movement coming into the seed programme, for days I have been asking and phoning around but now we have the real lists of the needs and the places where we can buy it immediately. Also the seeds which UNHCR and ICRC brought to the displaced people on Serbian side of Pakrac they have started to spread around in the last days, tomorrow they will finish the work, 3000 families. I heard yesterday that indeed all the seeds which UNHCR brought from Croatia had to be check first by the Serbian Krajina institute, the reason was indeed that they wanted to know if the Croat seeds were not poisoned. The seeds which ICRC bought in Serbia I also saw today, most people complained that the are outdated in a couple of months, they told me that it must be seeds from before the war or something, so we keep our fingers crossed hoping that the results after planting will be good. We also figured out that if the whole seed programme will work it will have a major positive influence on the whole economic situation on "the other side". All farms which haven't been working for nearly 3 years now will start to produce again and that means that for the first time in 3 years people maybe feed themselves again. On the Croatian news we heard that today there was heavy artillery attack on the road to Pozega, near by Pakrac. Although I have been the whole day in the neighbourhood I haven't heard anything special, on neither of the sides. Normally such things get discussed in public, especially since heavy artillery fire must come from heavy gun and in the sectors all heavy artillery and long guns must have been given to the UNPROFOR to be stored in the double locked warehouses. The whole period that I have been here I never ever show heavy arms on any of the both sides, only in the hands of UNPROFOR. Riffles and such are of course something else, people have them stored all over there houses. Wen we went looking for a possible house what we can rent for a year, the family went to Canada to visit their children, we saw f.e. that in the back room a huge machine gun was standing. But okay that house lays on the cease-fire line and the back garden you even can entrance because of the mines. Talking about forbidden weapons, during one of the meetings I had today I heard a nice story. A few weeks ago 4 UNPROFOR soldiers from ArgBat had a free weekend and they rented a car in Daruvar, obvious with a Croatian registration plate. After driving for some hours in the North of the sector they decided to visit their friends in their houses on the "other side" . They went over at the checkpoint in Lipik, where there is mostly no police control on the Croatian side, the UNPROFOR checkpoint let them through, since they knew the guy and also the Serbian checkpoint was out for a hike. So after 5 minutes driving they ended up in front of the school in the supermarket and 50 seconds later they were surrounded by about 30 men holding in their hands almost all carry-able weapon system what UNPROFOR has forbidden to have. Luckily for the Argentineans they were wearing their special ArgBat training clothes and that they could make clear that they didn't understood what happened, but otherwise it would have turned out completely different. In this case the 4 poor guys had to go to the militia for a few hours until their commander came to collect them. The car of course wasn't returned to them, it is a car from the "enemy" and therefor taken to serve for the Serbian Krajina Army. This Argentineans are here now for something more as a month, but really understanding that it is dangerous to drive with Croatian cars into Serbian held territory wasn't clear yet for them. From Gorazde the most unbelievable stories are coming in the last days, although they seems to have reached a kind of agreement during the talks of today. But if we have to believe the news on Croatian television, which are mostly copies from foreign television stations, so also shown on f.e. CNN, it looks if the Bosnian Serbian Army wants to fight against the rest of the World. The news on Banja Luka and Knin television about is limited, one of the guys which is forced to fight in Gorazde, he will live Pakrac tomorrow, was watching Croatian television all the time to find out what is happening, since he couldn't get official information from his own army. It looks a lot if the brave air-strikes haven't made to smallest influence, besides that troops from Bosnian Serbian Army are trying to get their heavy weapons back from the UNPROFOR warehouses around Sarajevo. For the rest it seems at the moment it rather has a counter productive effect, even some people who I know on the other side who are normally not so outspoken were very upset about it and said that it only makes thing more complicated 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. Financial support for Grassroot relief work in Croatia or BiH can be send to Kollektief Rampenplan (atn. 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