mercoledì 24 giugno 2009

Neda got killed in Naples.















As you look at it you can deeply feel the experience of an historical moment, big crowds, guns and fifteen minute heroes. Flags, deaths, ideas.
Neda made all of us feel the "Tienanmen experience", she died and became an icon, the gun that shot her shot us all. I believe every single one of you watching that video felt shame and horror and rage.
The same day she was shot the whole entire world and even Barack Obama were with her.
Her death found support, sympathy and love for the cause she was supporting.
All eyes on Teheran. Iran must be saved.
Neda didn't die in vain.

FAIR ENOUGH.

While the attention was all over Iran another event was brought to the public attention by the news industry.
On the 26th of May 2009 Petru Birladeanu, a romanian musician, a football player, actually, was shot in Naples at the Montestanto metro station. He was a casualty of the Camorra people, who shot. Actually, they were meant to kill some other "target" some other enemy of their clan for the territory dispute.
And something just came to my mind.
The news about Petru were released in the mid-june period, nearly one month after his death and just because the La Repubblica (Italian newspaper ndr) website published some security camera footage of what happened. (Romanian musician killed by camorra - security video violent content)
Nobody showed any kind of sympathy for Petru's death, even in the video. His wife was scereaming at the top of her lungs and none of the people in the station stopped, they just wanted to be out of it.
Petru was bleeding on the floor.
Naples is still bleeding on the floor.
Now that Gomorra is just something to have on our bookshelves, now that we think about the Camorra wars as a movie, something far away, we can look somewhere else
pityingly and cry for Iran and Neda.
We don't realise that we have a civil war in the middle of Europe, as Saviano was writing in his Gomorra investigation, the number of Camorra's war victims is 3.600 people since 1979.
No heroes, no flags, no ideas, no sympathy.
Petru is one of the last innocent people that died in the Bella-Napoli conflict and he should be part of the "Tienanmen experience".
I want people to stop and cry for him and scream for vengeance as Neda's friends on Teheran's concrete.
I want bloggers to write about a non-resolved conflict in the south of Italy.
I want people to care at least about a human life as they cared about Neda's icon.

We have to emancipate from media's hypocrisy.

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