We are living a historical period of great changes, consolidated international political schemes are now raging paper. New balances, for now only mentioned, face. They will all oblige us to choices that are no longer eligible. One thing is certain: every indecision today will present us a salty account tomorrow. Some careful observer, privileged by his profession, was saying it for a long time. One of these is certainly Safe Giammarco. Journalist Rai, Special Envoy Foreigners, in a premonitor interview stated.
Its fresh and clean image always appears on television, operating in China, Israel, Palestine, Russia, Ukraine, which contexts well wounded by war. He tells us that his work has brought him, and brings him, besides in Italy, also in Taiwan, Mexico and just recently in the United States, not new to limestone this territory.
Inevitable, since he attends absolutely marred places ask him: but who made you do it? And above all how do you live with fear?
The smile rises spontaneously while the pits on the cheeks are even more arched:
“Exact, they always ask me if I eat, if I drink, where I sleep and especially how do I work while burning everything behind my shoulders! Right questions. Fear is a human feeling that is repeated so many times in contexts where life risks. I myself ask myself constantly telling it in my book ‘Grano. Stories and people from a nearby war. I do not hide with the ambition of cimentating me in war reports, I think about the mission of public service first of all, and therefore the need, despite the difficulties, to ‘Be There’. Because it is essential to witness and tell humanity that we encounter even more in certain fringents. And it is right to bring to light what happens by pushing us to go further, passing every limit. Clearly you do not improvise: ‘war envoy!’. First aid courses, survival courses are made, also because of the experience that helps how to rely on logistic things and right people. ”
We know that a couple of years ago he came to Tuscany, in Vinci for the accuracy, withdrawing the ‘Premio Li Omini Boni Desiderano Sapere’
“Yes, it was a great honor as it grew up with the myth of Leonardo, precursor of times and great researcher. I take advantage to say that I also worked for TGR Tuscany, concentrating also on country stories. Going back to ‘Li Omini Boni’ I felt in tune living a similar story that follows the path of goodness. It will seem rhetoric but in reality being in the midst of pain and violence, it leads to the search for positive things such as people who in dramatic moments, to horror, try to help others with great humanity. As a result, an empathetic climate is created, towards conflicts that would otherwise appear between armies, bombs and rockets. It is not that we go to make the ‘kamikaze’! Therefore, between suffering and victims, the ability of the human being is to find goodness by succeeding in transmitting solidarity in a reciprocal way. This is our job! And that winning prize made me extremely proud.”.
Definitely appreciable his thought that seems also a mission, placed in terrible scenarios where often the habit of pain makes regress the sense of piety.
“Unfortunately the addiction is part of the human feelings and a journalist has the obligation to try to defuse this by telling and telling again, investing also on that a little put aside, giving it worthy testimony. Indeed, it is early to forget, and I personally prefer to put the emotional part albeit in a short extreme television time. Yeah, about a minute and a half!”
Here, in such fringents are always required of help money more than anything for the highly malnourished little ones, as well as for other realities that arise chilling.
Giammarco Sure more than laugh, smile ironically, offering us the answer with pause to continue on the theme of charity in such emergencies.
“I strongly recommend relying on large legally recognized organizations. And with that I say everything!”
Next?
“Ah…I count the right, they send me where they want! The envoy abroad is as fundamental as in our country, although sometimes working with tarpate wings. Why? Because it can happen that “more fashion” things are chosen at the expense of others ”.
One moment, this, in which it has not failed to speak also of that band of journalism aimed at social.
“Exact, time ago in Afghanistan the arrival of ‘Tir’ containing medicines and other goods of first necessity, together with the reopening of schools, is to be considered a virtuous circle able to empathize these contexts, with so much challenge – laughing raising the shoulders – towards the Taliban.
What about the situation in the Middle East today? The chronicle reports that there is no respect for not saying worse for the press as brutally targeted.”.
“This is unfortunately a consequence of the times we live. We have also observed it in Ukraine where several times the convoys with journalists have been deliberately attacked – even with regard to my personal experience – by the Russian army; there have been many victims in Ukraine for deliberate attacks on entities that once were considered neutral, such as Humanitarian Organizations such as the International Red Cross. I remember what happened in Gaza with the death of over 60 journalists in a few weeks. Therefore it is essential to bring back to a sense of neutrality the press, which is in such scenarios not to participate but to tell fundamentally the stories of the victims, who can stand on both sides of the conflict”.
Thought about the European Union.
“First of all, we need a unity of intent because the European Union has been divided especially on foreign policy. We need a Foreign Minister, who is not the High Commissioner for Foreign Affairs who has no real and concrete power. It would take a unique voice, which comes out of the 27 and interprets a common thought that sintentizes. This is a difficulty that has to do with the various positions. We saw it with the Hungarian veto on aid to Ukraine. Both in the Israeli and Ukrainian context, we have witnessed a lack of vigilance. We have not done enough since 2014 for what was happening in Donbass relegating that matter as regional and today unfortunately it is late. The European Union has been absent because it lacks a common voice and often relies on others like the United States. Therefore we should be more protagonists in the international field.”.
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