Nachricht Nummer : 471 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 58 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ztn.zer.de (Wam) Betrifft : Zagreb Diary on 6 April, 1994 Kopienempfänger : /REG/NEWS/DIARY/WAM, /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN, /SOC/CULTURE/BOSNA-HERZGVNA, /SOC/CULTURE/CROATIA, /SOC/CULTURE/YUGOSLAVIA Erstellungsdatum : 12.04.1994 16:02:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary 6 April, 1994 Dobar dan, I got woken up at around 5.30 in the morning by somebody who was looking for BJ, our former Hell Angel volunteer, he explain that he don't need help today since it is raining and they anyway can't work on the concrete outside today. And so suddenly I feel if I am in the middle of something on a position where I wouldn't like to be. I have decided to stay on this side of the line for the coming days since I am a little surprised by this sudden move. In two days from now the second peace agreement between Knin and Zagreb will be changed and everything we need at the moment are not tension raising events. Last Saturday (2nd) they decided about the "borders" between the two "states" and this week the are agreeing about a three kilometer disarmed zone on both sides. In and around sector East, South and North the situation is getting more quiet, but here it seems to become more tens with the moment. One of the tension on this side, the question if the working brigades get money from Zagreb to continue is cooled down a bit at least, yesterday everybody was told that at least for the coming month nothing will change. Yesterday was the first working day after Easter, the first was Good Friday, and whole day yesterday people of the working brigades were active in the middle of the city, it was if Pakrac has waken up after an Easter sleep and everywhere you see people busy. In the last weeks in the whole town they work on the gas pipes and now they also have started with the electricity. The working brigades have started to clean up houses at the most visible place in the town. "They are cleaning up their future" was my reaction to Davor when I saw that some brigades where busy in the Buducnost (future) supermarkets at the beginning of the town. I could imagine that I would see that happening in a long time, I always though that those building would be one of the last. Today the work on the building continued and I sit in the pub where we get our lunch, the owner has agreed to cook for all of us three times a week for cost price and look at the other side of the street. At that moment an Italian little truck passes by and two little person vans full with people of some Italian humanitarian organisations, on the front branch of each van next to the driver is a person busy talking on the radio. We look at it and think, yes it is a very dangerous area around here, for one truck you need 25 men of security to be sure that it comes at the right place and that radio contact is essential, imagine one of the vans would be looted between the Croatian border and Pakrac or they get lost somewhere down the highway. On the vans and the trucks a big Red Cross so you don't have to asked what their destination was. We haven't finish yet or two Dutch Volkswagen vans pass by and we start to look up in the peace agenda if we know a peace group in the town from which they were coming, but half an hour later I saw them standing in front of one if the small Protestant churches, so they also didn't came for us. Strange enough we are a bit happy about it, more volunteers and relief helpers in the house tomorrow the better it is for my nerves. In the town it is known now that the Patriarch is coming tomorrow, but all believe that UNPROFOR will not allow them to come down, (for their own safety UNPROFOR tells in simular cases on Croatia television, when Croatian people want to visit their churches and grave yards in the Serbian Krajina controlled zones. I would like however that sometimes like this is followed up, if it is not yet this Thursday, the both churches should try to communicate with each other. Last evening I decided for myself that although I know the bible a bit I am not the type of person who should do it, it would be better if a duo from Catholic and Orthodox priest would come here and help to restore contacts between the two major priest here on the both side of Pakrac. It is raining a bit the whole day, not really a bright spring day like you hope for at a official day like tomorrow. I hope deep in myself that it stays this weather tomorrow that way the heated persons will be cooled down a bit and less people will come to the event, further on if they come down, what is the opinion on the "other side", "UNPROFOR or NO UNPROFOR we go" some people said to somebody which just came from the "other side" it all looks a bit less powerful as during the bright sunshine, the flags will hag down and plastic around all the "holy things", it would makes things a lot easier when it would rain tomorrow. I am agree with the Catholic Priest country politics should stay far away from the Church, but when I visit him again this evening he also seems to speak more as person, as he says himself, than as Priest. He explained that it would be a lot easier for our work if in this Sector the Croatian control would be up to the Sava, according the international agreed UN resolutions. In that case we didn't have to pass the border so often and people wouldn't think that we are talking with the enemy. This is I have to be honest up to now the most creative reason I have heard for "Croatia up to the Sava". Again we talk for a few hours after which we go to Skorpija, after being there for half an hour Jura more or less gives us the signal to go in the next 15 minutes although it is at least an hour before closing time. In corner are sitting some police agents who obvious will have duty tomorrow and were busy to prepare themselves. I remember such a situation from the evening after orthodox new year, when nothing happened the whole day but all police men were sharp as knives the whole day. In the evening they were freaking out, now they were freaking out already the night before, not really promising for tomorrow. 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