The buskahì and 'The Afghan national game: two teams of horsemen contend for the carcass of a headless goat. It 'a play violent and lawless: the only thing that matters and' possession of the carcass, or at least what remains of it, at the end of the race. It 's like the tragic game involving numerous players in the Afghan conflict, a game still in progress, only instead of the goat there is' the people of Afghanistan. Buskashì and 'the story of a journey into the war, which began Sept. 9, 2001, with the assassination of the leader Ahmad Shah Massoud two days before the attack in New York. A trip to "illegal" to reach Afghanistan when the country was abandoned by all foreigners and shut borders. The arrival in the valley of Panchir, crossing the front of the bombing to reach Kabul on the eve of the defeat of the Taliban, the conquest of the capital by the mujahideen of the Northern Alliance, the Kabul "liberated" the experience of war through the eyes of the only witnesses western grip Kabul.
(Gino Strada, Feltrinelli)
My opinion: I do not know in depth the reality 'in Afghanistan, but I know Gino, including, I can tell, that is positive and less of his character. But above all his honesty 'intellectual and major initiatives Emergency carries for ordinary people, in reality' as hard as Afghanistan, but also Sudan, Sierra Leone and elsewhere. Theatres where you often play hidden war, as well as those more 'obvious that almost every day we are sadly reported (often in distorted) by the television journalists. A book that offers an interpretation of a complex reality disenchanted 'political and social.
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