Keeping on the theme of the human condition I feel no one else I have come across expresses the brutality and meaningless suffering of war and conflict with such integrity as Joe Sacco.
Sacco has put himself in the midst of numerous, conflicts and pressure points in the world over the past twenty years from Palastine to the baltic conflicts in the early 90's.Sacco befriended and lived in Gorezde a major UN embarrasement and a hellish place for it's inhabitant's during the Bosnian war.He present's people's personal experiences of the suffering a brutal struggle to eat and survive in a manner I feel would be lessened if it where only in words.I remember the war news reels on tv about the UN dropping supplies and the constant cat an mouse scenario between Serbia and the UN at the time all the while the people of towns like Gorezde where being starved and under sniper fire. I had been to Yugoslavia before the war and it seemed unbelieveable to see the shelling and savage war in what is a hope and a skip from Austria or Italy.
In conflicts we try to clarify the political reasoning for actions to normalise it in a sense and present it in facts historical or otherwise. Sacco wishes to document his own experiences and portray the human stories as they are told to him.The manner in which a different way of life is created by people to survive and live through what is a maddening a savage reality.
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