War chronicle of journalists Ilire Zajmi and Filippo Landi

Guglielmo Minervini

On these pages, written with four hands, they do not write war chronicles but confess their story. So, the tragedy of Kosovo went into their lives, becoming part of their individual solutions, reports, and values

That the story told by mass media is partial and generalized in all countries, is a widespread conclusion.

But there is growing demand from the same information maker to escape solid and sterile patterns of chronicles, exiting other areas of freedom not only for conscience but also for reason.

Filippo Landi and Ilire Zajmi, are two journalists, Filippo , a Italian who comes from the world of television, Ilire a Albanian journalist coming from print media. The flow of events in Kosovo has seen them directly with their eyes. Everything is described in the book confession. Filippo has seen the war by staying on the Kosovo border, Ilire has seen from inside.

Many have come to know their will and become familiar with their confession. On these pages, written with four hands, they do not write war chronicles but confess their story. So, the tragedy of Kosovo entered their lives, becoming part of their individual solutions, reports, and values. By telling how a history of disaster can become a short circuit for the life of an individual, a community, a nation. How it can change fate, but also engage in the following events. In reality, their glances, their events, who meet illegally at the border point, are transformed into narrative lenses, up to the thrilling feeling that strips up to the intimacy of the horrors of this war. Ilire’s narration depicts the anxiety of war, the slow shift of consciousness that begins with a distant skepticism "war is a weird phenomenon, always thinking that only others die" and diving into a fatalism, continuing with the inevitable feeling of  fatalism impotence  "who can prevent a war of tragic dimensions in Kosovo? No one seems to me. "

And in the psychological journey that starts from the unbelievable to the possible, it just goes to the point where war becomes inevitable and indispensable. Dynamic rhythm, pure parody, Ilire' s suppressive desire to understand, allow building a chain of reactions that causes the inevitable outbreak of violence, expanding accurately the moment when the understanding of the way of retaliation is overcome as a feeling, and the report ofiIrreversible pieces are broken. Ilire’s confession often uses the metaphor of love and destiny. The idea of ​​coexistence between cultures and nations as an expression of a love affair is a very precious figure of peace or "coexistence of differences". The idea of ​​war, treated as a loving disruption of disillusionment, is the dominant politics of endless thirst for domination, "the coexistence between the two nations seems impossible to me. They have gone too far this time. And like any other coexistence, every love has its own destiny. And the end ".

It is different, however, the pilgrimage of Filippo. His vision follows another path, beginning with the decomposition of a "humanitarian catastrophe" and continuing with an incredible finding of "a mass deportation" planned in a very rational way. Even in the story of Filippo, there is a description of a chain of reactions that last long on the Balkan land, starting from the escape of the persecuted victims and systematic genocide: "I who visited Dachau, do not believe that after fifty years, In Europe, a new mass deportation could be organized. " In this sequence, Filippo’s narration captures the point at which the war has managed to program the exile of an entire nation to physically eradicate its existence. It is this time when the war in Kosovo takes place on two fronts, that of the sophisticated technology of Western bomber aircraft, and the deportation of a whole nation: "The tragedy must have enough victims, before touching the human conscience ". This hybrid is a new chapter that the war has followed to affirm its devastating sovereignty. Ilire’s  vitality and the authentic story of Filippo make up the opposite of what appears: "everything that is said and declared is nothing but a triumph of violence in a territory that counts 146 ethnic groups”.

The brutal character of the war, increasingly relentless to civilians, is the result of the differences that coexisted during the Balkan tragedies, and they express the urgent need for a peace policy for which air bombing represents only a hypocrisy of confrontation.

A policy that delivers new horizons of coexistence, starting exactly from Europe, one of the most positive models of policy success in the century that we are leaving behind.

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