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PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK “WAR JOURNALS. BOSNIA”

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Sarajevo  ||  | 16 October 2025
Iniziative (EN) - MAMT – Mediterranean Museum of Art, Music and Traditions

The world premiere of Michele Capasso's book War journals. Bosnia, presented in Italian and English, took place in Sarajevo.
The book was presented by:

  • Elma Hasimbegović
    Director of the Museum of History of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • Miguel Àngel Moratinos
    UN Secretary-General and High Representative for the Alliance of Civilisations.
  • Amira Arifović Harms
    Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Italy.
  • Munira Subašić
    President of the ‘Mothers Srebrenica Enclaves’ movement.
  • Kanita Fočak
    Architect and writer.

Politicians, representatives of international institutions, writers, journalists and protagonists of the 1992-1995 siege of Sarajevo attended the event.
Among them was the President of the House of Peoples, Kemal Ademović.
The “diary-book” is Michele Capasso's testimony and recounts his experience in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1964 to the present day, recounting episodes of friends, men and women, who came together in a great “chain of love” for acts of solidarity towards the victims of a fratricidal war that caused hundreds of thousands of innocent victims.
The book features Predrag Matvejević, writer and essayist, who shared with the author the most significant moments at the turn of the millennium, from 1988 to 2017. It is the story of unique human experiences at a historic moment when the Mediterranean, at the turn of the millennium, took on strategic importance for dialogue and peace: with Bosnia and Herzegovina the victim of a conflict symbolically represented by Sarajevo and Srebrenica, the town where the second genocide of the 20th century was perpetrated on 11 July 1995. 
Fratricidal war, ethnic cleansing, urbicide, memoricide, genocide: against everything that was happening in Bosnia and Herzegovina and, in general, in the former Yugoslavia and the Balkans, Michele Capasso took action, investing all his personal resources and urging people not to give up, as evidenced by the stories told in this book, where everything can be rigorously verified in documents and images.