Nachricht Nummer : 409 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 45 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.comlink.de (Wam) Betrifft : Zagreb Diary on 14 February, 1994 Kopienempfänger : /REG/NEWS/DIARY/WAM, /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN, /SOC/CULTURE/BOSNA-HERZGVNA, /SOC/CULTURE/CROATIA, /SOC/CULTURE/YUGOSLAVIA Erstellungsdatum : 16.02.1994 17:17:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary 14 February, 1994 Dobar dan, I was a bit happy this morning when I read my Email from the last days, at last an organisation like Amnesty International are spending some attention on my friend Dzakula. From the Polish I have heard that his appearances from about 1 1/2 hours on the Beograd television studio "B" was full of criticism on politicians from Knin. But more news they couldn't give. It seems that Dzakula is again arrested in Beograd by special police from Knin, messages from Beograd say that he was arrested because he HD house arrest in Pakrac and wasn't allowed to leave the town. For the rest nothing is known about him yet. Not only do you have to get known to new faces of volunteers every so much weeks, but if you spend such a long time in some area as we are doing now in Pakrac, you see also UN officials coming and going. Some weeks ago the high officer of Civil Affair went away and became special advisor of the special advisor of the special envoy of the UN for Former Yugoslavia, today the news broke that also Fabrice from UNHCR will leave to area soon. I was wondering what all those UN cars did outside the opcina (there were at least 6 of them) and heard that Fabrice came by with his follow-up and presented the new person (coming from the States) to the local authorities. After the incident months back in September with my UNHCR card the contact was a little hard in the beginning, but now it starts to become better and better all the time, especially since we have broke the line and are working on the "other side". Fabrice goes to Pakistan for 2 years and I think he will have some problems with leaving the area now his (UNHCR) money generating project is slowly starting. I am glad that I am not working for such an organisation, since just as you are starting to understand the area a bit they remove you and send you to another part of the world, with new and above all other problems and other cultures. Every time when a journalist ask me if our project after 7 months has some kind of positive effects I have to say that 7 months are far too short to say something about it. I spend nearly 2 year here now and I am still learning what is going on and what actual happened in the past 3 years. Very slowly I am thinking that I understand at least something. But that is all, to be sure that we are on the right track will take at least a year more. Today Zoran Ostric arrived in Pakrac to make an official report about the project for ARKzin. It was strange to see him suddenly here in Pakrac. Zoran is for me somebody who is completely related to the ARK office in Zagreb and some times it is rather strange to see some body from Zagreb in this part of the country. Strange because Pakrac is "my" part of the country, not that I own it or so, but I feel at home here, much more than in Zagreb. But it is great to see people from Zagreb coming here, since the situation here on the former front-line is so much different than the political culture in the capital. Zoran is also one of the first people I learned to know in this country when I came, he is part of that core group who started ARK and in the last two years we went to together through some many things that I am glad to share this part of ARK with him. As always the tour through the town started with the famous photo on top of the take in Skorpija. And ended after a tour through the city looking among other things for the officials of the town, which of course couldn't be found (probably since they were busy with the new person from UNHCR) in Papega, where the volunteers opened today the Pakrac gallery with as first exhibition the postcards which were send from all over World (we will organise a simular action in the coming weeks for Easter cards) and drawings of the children of the town. Marta our volunteer from Praha had been working on it for the last 2 weeks and did a great job. Among the nearly 200 drawings, there are only 3 which remains on the war. Instead they draw about Sint Nicolas and Christmas, which is already more than a month ago but still fresh in their minds. During the opening some school classes came by and the whole place was full of children. lot of them felt really at home since they come here nearly twice a week for the children activities. In the coming weeks we hope that all this children will come back with their parents, since that is another way of coming in contact with the local population. Late in the afternoon Martin from the Austrian draft resisters, who does their civil service here, lent our van to go to Okucani, Help-Age there organised a kind of special evening for old people and they needed a second van to transport all the people to the central place. Our van is still in carneval colours and full with all kind of peace signs. So before they could use it we had to remove some of the typical Croatian slogans (like Bok, a greeting which is used among Croats, but not among Serbs), but the rest of the van stayed the same. When he brought it back he said that he was surprised that the Croatian checkpoint waved them through without even looking in the van or at his pasport. Although they pass the checkpoint nearly daily with their van they got more and more controlled the last weeks and now suddenly they were friendly and made no problems and that with a van which looked more like a circus van than a serious transport vehicle. 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.comlink.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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