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MICHELE CAPASSO'S BOOK "WAR JOURNALS. BOSNIA" HAS BEEN PUBLISHED

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Naples  ||  | 10 October 2025
Iniziative (EN) - Maison de la Paix (EN)

Michele Capasso's book "War Journals. Bosnia" has been published in Italian and English. It is the first in a series that bears witness to the major conflicts of the last century and this century.
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 war that caused hundreds of thousands of innocent casualties.
One of the protagonists of the book is Predrag Matvejevic’, 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.
The overall meaning of the narrative is to highlight the great strength that human beings have been able to develop in countering the adversity and pain caused by war and senseless hatred, facing adversity without ever losing faith in tomorrow.
The preview presentation of the book will take place in Sarajevo on 16 October 2025 in the presence of the protagonists and representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the main international institutions.