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Georgian and Ossetian Journalists Released “Another Face of War”

April 25, 2012

On April 25 Art Café in Gori is going to host presentation of a new book published by Georgian and Ossetian journalists. It is the first joint edition published since August war 2008. The book entitled “Another Face of War” will be published in Georgian, Russian and English languages [300 copies each].

The book includes Georgian-Ossetian support stories. Georgian bilingual newspaper Kartlosi  collected the stories on Georgian side; Temur Tskhovrebov, editor of the Ossetian newspaper 21st Century and local journalists worked on the Ossetian stories.

Megi Bibiluri, the editor of the book and director of Georgian NGO Kartlosi, said the collection process was not easy because initially respondents were telling horrors of the war and book characters often had to risk their lives during the armed conflict. In the light of the information space full of negative stories and hate speech, deepening the gap between conflicting communities it’s very important to publicize the stories according to which individuals managed to overcome hatred through humanity.

Temur Tskhovrebov points out that the collection of stories was a rather difficult task. 150 personal stories were collected on both sides but only 40 of them were selected for the book. Working on the book Tskhovrebov got convinced that generosity never goes in vain.

”War is the dirt of humanity but we wanted to show that even in this mess we can act humanly. It gives us hope for future, for mutual understanding. We wanted to demonstrate it and hopefully we have managed it,” Temur Tskhvrebov said.

Does the war have face other than casualty, destruction, brutality and dozens of other disasters? The authors of the book believe that the war has got another face too. The prologue of the book reads: “Human values and kindness can be respected even in the war. Stories with diverse contents were selected. Mostly they tell about neighbors, friends, relatives, who had to stand on opposite sides of barricades within a second but all stories have one point – we remember the kindness which we have seen in the most difficult days.”

The project was supported by EU-funded UNDP-administered COBERM. The Russian edition of the book will be presented in Tskhinvali.

Goga Aptsiauri, media.ge

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