editorial
Luciano Myron is a investigative journalist, the diaspora of the "Sicilian" Pippo Fava. He has just updated and republished with the publisher Castelvecchi his extraordinary book, "The silted-Stories of journalists killed by the Mafia dall'indiferenza and buried. "Miron has done a thorough investigation on the stories buried and neglected of the eight journalists killed in Sicily by the Mafia and terrorism and said told with beautiful style and human passion. The book says things that many do not know , reminds us of the duty of memory, it shows what can be done in practice, and often do, to cultivate the memory of those who - in our country and not in distant war zones - to give news inconvenient, unpleasant, has played life, has clashed with the minotaur of censorship which, unfortunately, still menacing darts through the maze of information.
We propose the introduction of vibrant civil contempt of Rita Borsellino.
Foreword by Rita Borsellino
I am happy that "covered up" to be reprinted. And that reprinted today, 100 years after the birth of the National Federation of the press and in such a delicate moment for the information of Sicily. Delicate for two reasons: not only because the new process of social rebellion against the Mafia and its control is in progress in Sicily , information is asked to play an important role, but also because in recent years and more in recent months, intimidation to journalists working on the front of the complaint, are back to bite persistently even in those cases in which the journalist merely to publish documents proceedings, thus to reveal something that had already been revealed if only in the courtroom. What does this mean? It means that the word and information remains one of the most feared weapons against crime. Even the most feared of the justice system, which leaks the mafia has come to know and exploit to the fullest. It also means that without careful and freedom of information is difficult to build, obtain, have a social conscience as free and attentive.
collect the stories of eight journalists in Sicily, put them in sequence, one after another following an ideal path in time and space of this island, you need to find a theme and to emphasize hard, shattering the power of an instrument such as printing and the importance of the profession of journalist's task is to mediate, filter, read what happens. And the duty to do it well, looking for the truth and not being satisfied with what's served.
But this is not only the merit of The sanded, because examining the life of Mauro De Mauro, Giuseppe Fava, Mario French, Mauro Rostagno, Cosimo Cristina, Peppino Impastato, John Spampinato and Beppe Alfano, Myron recounts the history of this' island and submit to the reader with a disturbing question, the same as chasing me and when I try to answer for years: what is behind the deaths excellent Sicilian? And why in many of these cases you can not find it on to the principals? In the pages of this book is not only news and history is not only passionate search for truth. I really wish to shovel away, far away, the sand of indifference that for too long has covered these deaths. The research spans 30 years of Myron of Sicily including the years of the Cold War in which the author puts it well, "the island becomes a land of intrigue and underground perverse agreements between the State and Anti-State over which you have not yet written any truth. " Its investigation, which started in the 60s is killed when Cosimo Cristina, and his death is "disguised" from suicide and comes to '93, the year of the killing of reporter Barcelona PG, Beppe Alfano.
But to me re-read this book after all these years has also meant more. E 'to find the reasons for a choice of engagement and go back many times in my life. Rereading the words of French when Julius tells of a father and his sense of being in danger of having little time now, you go back to 1992 when Paul told me he told us "I must do soon" and used expressions like "when you kill me .. ".
reading some stories by Felicia Impastato that today no longer exists and that with his love mother was able to make an open process on the killing of Peppino, it means you smile again strong and the passion of an extraordinary woman with whom I shared many times feelings and hopes.
And so it is that of Giuseppe Claudio Fava has inherited and the ability to communicate. There is in this book over the life of these extraordinary chroniclers, Sicily that will not resign. Sicily in recent years, from the rubble of the murders and massacres excellent, was born and built hope. There is the spirit of the newspapers that have made the history of information of Palermo, like now. And there's Myron Luciano, a reporter Sicilian love of his country and his profession that, if done well, he can create change. And on the sand.
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