Nachricht Nummer : 420 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 46 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ztn.zer.de (Wam) Antworten an : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.comlink.de Betrifft : Zagreb Diary on 21 February, 1994 Kopienempfänger : /REG/NEWS/DIARY/WAM, /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN, /SOC/CULTURE/BOSNA-HERZGVNA, /SOC/CULTURE/CROATIA, /SOC/CULTURE/YUGOSLAVIA Erstellungsdatum : 25.02.1994 16:02:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary 21 February, 1994 Dobar dan, This morning Lynette and the three Muppets had planned to go back to their houses on the "other side". To be sure we decided to go to see the commander of the Argentinean battalion in Pakrac first to find out if something has changed over the last two days. We met him in his improvised office in the former Pakrac Hotel, where they have their barracks. He first showed us the pictures of his children, since he is counted the days of his returning back to his home land, in 14 days from now. We talked a bit about his work and his battalion and he proudly presented us the flag of his corps, the first para troopers special forces of Argentina, the first who landed on the Falklands. Than we came to the hot point, can our people return to their "side". He told us that he send down 4 more tanks to the bridge and that the situation is still not quiet their. They are very afraid that something will happen, but in the area just over the cease-fire line everything is still quiet and if it was for him to make decisions he would give us permission to return. Nevertheless he got orders that no civil was allowed to pass the cease-fire line and until he didn't receive new orders his soldiers wouldn't leave us through. So we decide to go to the high commander in Daruvar to see what happened. We took one of the volunteers with us, who speak English and during the ride she asked me who destroyed all those houses down the road. I told her that that was down after the real fighting and most likely was done by Croatian extremists, since in this region there wasn't any real war. When we arrived at Daruvar at the HQ we found out that everybody had left from there, on the door still stood that it was the Sector HQ, but not one single note explained were they moved to. The shopkeeper of a shop next to the building explained that the sector command has moved to camp Polem, the former JNA army barracks in Daruvar, now used by UNPROFOR. So we decided to find UNHCR and asked them what kind of orders they have got from UNPROFOR. Not to stand again for an empty building we walked to the UNCIVPOL HQ of the sector in order to check out if somebody knew where we could find Fabrice, who is still in charge of UNHCR. On the way there we bought the newest Feral Tribune, with on the cover a photo "the united killers of Feral Tribune", a reaction on the Beneton poster with a wounded Croatian on it. In the middle of the newspaper a nice article how "Marley and Hendrix are rebuilding Pakrac" (Marley and Hendrix are two of our Muppets). In the UNCIVPOL building we found out that UNCIVPOL had no restriction, as was said to us by the UNPROFOR commander, also UNHCR seemed to have to limitations of movement in the southern part of the sector, since Fabrice was at the moment in Okucani, which lays only a few kilometres away from the bridge over the Sava. A little annoyed by the different orders which seems to go around we decided after a short visit at UNHCR to visit the commander in chief in camp Polem. Walking over the street of Daruvar back to our car we met Annette from UNOV, who just arrived from Sarajevo and convinced our knowledge that it is quiet down there, she also just found out that she wasn't allowed to go south in the sector, although she is driving a car with an UNPROFOR numberplate. We said good-bye and drove to camp Polem. A the gate we met a Canadian soldier, who look a little surprised when he show our UN passports, but had to let us through. We asked him were Sector Command had there offices and he send us to the southern part of the camp, "maybe they are there". Driving along a road with on both sides little sign saying that there were mines laying in- between the roads and building we arrived in the Canadian part of the camp. After 5 minutes we found some soldiers, throwing snowballs at eachother, who told us that Sector Command is probably at the other side of the camp. So we drove back and went to the northern part of the camp, passing by the dump yard of broken UNPROFOR vehicles, I counted at least 40 totally smashed cars and that made it clear for me why this UN peace keeping operation cost almost 4 million dollars per day. They just brought in a brand new Peugeot luxes car, which obvious look more like a harmonium, than a car. After a little search around the building we finally found the one from sector command and in the building they brought us to the commander in charge of the security of civil UN personal, who is coming from Australia. And there we met Annette again. He told us that Sector Command had the order to pull out of the civilian part of Daruvar, because of the tension around Sarajevo and south of the sector and they probably will stay within camp Polem. Also he told that they recieved the rumours that Serbian special troops had got the order to surround the UNCIVPOL office in the Serbian side of Pakrac and that they were taken those rumours serious. Even his own technical staff was not allowed to go south in their soft vehicles and were brought south to repair the generators of the Nepal barracks by APC. Nevertheless also according his information the situation directly south of the cease-fire line was quiet, he described the northern part as green, the cease-fire line as orange and the southern part as red (I nearly said that traffic lights are upside down, but a kept my mouth) and that we probably got the permission tomorrow. 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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