Nachricht Nummer : 400 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 38 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.comlink.de (Wam) Betrifft : Zagreb Diary on 7 February, 1994 Kopienempfänger : /REG/NEWS/DIARY/WAM, /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN, /SOC/CULTURE/BOSNA-HERZGVNA, /SOC/CULTURE/CROATIA, /SOC/CULTURE/YUGOSLAVIA Erstellungsdatum : 07.02.1994 23:57:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary 7 February, 1994 Dobar dan, Dear diary, I feel ashamed today, ashamed that I didn't read my Email the last few days (due to a technical mistake a lost a lot of private mail from the last two weeks, but this was public mail with I didn't read), so up to today I didn't know that Dzakula was kidnapped on Friday in Beograd, already for 3 days now he disappeared and nobody has heard from him since it happened. I know that a lot of my friends on the Croatian side of Pakrac see him as a war criminal, especially the fact that he was leader of the SDS (Serbian Democratic Party) when the war broke out and that he used "Serbian" controlled radio during the fighting to send "propaganda" towards the defenders of the Croatian part of Pakrac, which was surrounded in those days. He said f.e. that the "White Eagles" and their leader Seselj would come to the Pakrac area at that moment with 300 Chetnik fighters (only 30 came). In the last six months however I learn to know him as a good politician and often as a fine person, we have spend really some good time together discussing how this area ever would be reconstructed in the future. We shared a lot of ideas together. In the last weeks I really pushed him to go to Beograd and let his opinion been heard in Serbia, an opinion which surely is not shared by the warlords. On last Wednesday he finally went and I hoped that it would become a break through in the peace process in sector West. It brought me in a kind of hurrah feeling. Until this morning when I read and heard that he was kidnapped on Friday after he appeared on Thursday on television station Studio "B". It again makes clear to me that it is not a game what we are playing down here, that every step is dangerous, although it some times seems to be so quiet and peaceful, especially after Tudjman and Milosevic signed that agreement some week ago. It will be hard to go back to Pakrac tomorrow and face the reality again. Last time when Veljko was arrested by Knin Militia (he spend 72 days in jail) it wasn't that hard as now, I wonder who did it and what has happened to him. I know that he is strong and that he has his mind set on a peaceful solution for his town, but what can a person take. The hardest thing however is not knowing where he is and if he is still alive. There for I call upon all of you, who are reading this diary, please send message to your ministries and to the still remaining Serbian (Yugoslavian) embassies in your country. Dzakula told me that I can follow my own intuition when something as last time happens again, my intuition says that the world should know about him and that people in Beograd should know that we know him. So please help me. I would love to sit with him on the fish pound we are planning on the Serbian side of Pakrac and talk about the future again. I know that thousand are in the simular situation as him and that all those thousands should be get the same help. But understand me that I ask special help for this person, I should not have pressed him to go, maybe, maybe no. It is the whirl pool of thoughts you have day after day, hope you understand, dear diary. The rest of the day I spend in the peace centre, since firstly I remarried today, my ex-wife, the mother of Pjort and Rik, decided that after been time officially separated for over 1 1/2 year it became to show our children that grown-up can overcome their problems, so we remarried today by fax. Vesna, my girlfriend in Zagreb understood it and agree with it, since it wouldn't change much in our relationship, which is now nearly 2 years old. But most important was the visit of Klaus Vack, our activist grand-pa from Germany. I missed his last two visit and was glad to see him again today after more than a year. Klaus is Klaus, those who really don't dig him probably find him arrogant and a manipulator, since he comes with his wallet full money and spread it around as Santa Claus. Money which his organisation has collected from all kind of people in Germany, beside the anti-war campaign his organisation brings expensive medicine and equipment to all kind of hospitals around Croatia and BiH, but since his origin is the peace movement (with his 55 years he calls himself an anarchist) he is convinced that humanitarian aid is also sponsoring the grassroots peace and human right organisation. And so we spend a beautiful late afternoon and evening with him. Tomorrow comes the hard part of his visit, since he want to go with me to Pakrac and cross the line, he brought a lot of medicines for the medical post on the Croat and Serbian side of Pakrac. You maybe can imagine that I am a little "afraid" of just passing the line like that if nothing has happened. Especially if you imagine that also a television team from ADR (one of the biggest German Television stations) is also filming us in Pakrac tomorrow and also wants to cross the line with me. Every thing was nicely arranged with Dzakula last week, just before he went to Beograd. Tomorrow the thing will be totally different. And so you see that what is a shinning opportunity today can be totally different tomorrow, hard to understand for people who just drop by for one or two days, but for us ...... 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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