Nachricht Nummer : 425 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 38 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.ztn.zer.de (Wam) Antworten an : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.comlink.de Betrifft : Zagreb Diary on 25 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 23:35:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary 25 February, 1994 Dobar dan, Most of the day I have spend at home today, still having some high temperature and not feeling much better. I basically have been busy to type in all my diary entries of the last week. Due to all the things which had happened in Pakrac and Sector West in this last week I didn't really took the time every day to do it. I hope that nobody was missing me, but everything and everybody was busy the last week. Back in Zagreb I have at last the time to keep up with all my duties, a good feeling to be back on the right day. Let's hope I will keep up writing every day it means that the work is not taking all my energy. The most positive thing what happened today was a phonecall from Pakrac, Lynette just for a short visit at the Croatian side, told me that she met in Pakrac Jelena from Beograd and heard from her that our friend Dzakula arrived back in Pakrac yesterday. How Dzakula and Jelena could pass the bridge to come into the sector from Bosnia is a big question for me since the last week we keep hearing that the entrance from that side is absolute closed. The bus from Pakrac to Beograd f.e. was turned back earlier this week, couldn't pass the bridge. Already earlier this week Amnesty International gave the message that Dzakula was alive and in jail in Glina, where he was visit by friends and relatives. I am not sure but it looks that all the international pressure which was organised this time around his arrest have helped, last time it took 72 days before he was released. A less nice thing is that Lynette had to come to the local Militia commander yesterday. He told her that the Serbian Krajina militia will pro-long our allowance to work in the Serbian Krajina part of the sector, but that we have to promise that we don't involve ourselves in politics or take pictures. Further more he want that one of his agents is accompanying during all our activities on the "other side". This means that we are suddenly a lot less free than before. Lynette thinks that it has to do a lot with the tentions which obvious are still high at the "other side" of the cease-fire line, the situation at the bridge still hasn't change much. I hope that she is right and that the situation will cool down soon and that are freedom of movement and activities without control is returned to us soon. Furthermore Lynette told that Jelena told her that in the coming days other people from Beograd will arrive, among them volunteers who will stay in Pakrac for some time, so at last the co-operation comes really of the ground. Around me the people are discussing the new Beneton poster, it seems that a father of a killed Croatian soldier has send the clothes of his son, T-shirt and treasures to them with the question if they could use it to stop the war. And of course Beneton used it in the famous series of promotion posters, a series who all over the world often was the start of heavy discussion of good taste. Probably this poster will start such discussions again. One thing is for sure the commercial advisor of Beneton knows his job well, it doesn't matter how they talk about you as long as the talk about you, one of the ground rules of commercials. Another point of heavy discussion is the fact that it looks more and more if we get a new type of Berlin wall in Europe. It is not longer a wall between the West and the East, but between the Russian influence part of Europe and the rest. This wall goes straight through former Yugoslavia it seems, at least if you must believe the political commands on the Croatian television. The new cease-fire between HVO and BiHarmija seems to hold, at least today it was quiet in Mostar and Central Bosnia. New UNPROFOR troops, especially from the Scandinavian countries have arrived in Split and will go to Tuzla, among other cities in the next days. If you have heard for month after month messages of fighting's, violations of cease- fires and not enough funds to deploy enough UNPROFOR troops this sudden changes are more or less putting you out of your balance, what the hack has happened that suddenly all this things seems to go better. Anyway it is not really peace every where, although the arriving battalion from Denmark was drinking champagne on arrival in Split. But let's hope it will stay this way for a long time. New on the Croatian television and on all the public building is commercials to join the special gardists of the Croatian army. Under the motto the USA have their red barrettes, France their legionnaires, the UK their commandos and Croatian their gardists. As well again stories, documentaries, about special other brigades of the army, I haven't seen this for months, especially not commercials to join the army. Last but not least the news that Serbian troops, which seems to have come from Tuzla region, but had strong lines with the government of Serbian Krajina, as far as the news was clear about it, will withdraw from the bridge over the Sava in the south of Sector West. This is a result of negotiation which took place today in Beograd between the UN and representatives of Serbian Krajina. So maybe in a few days we will have full freedom again of movement in the sector. 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