Susan Scholl is an Austrian journalist. Moscow correspondent for the TV in his country, has been busy, like others before her, the current situation in Chechnya, Russian Federation. As Anna Politkovskaya: a woman as a symbol of the complaint and engaged in journalism, one of the first to have spoken to the world of abuse suffered by the people of Chechnya. And it is she who must be the existence of this book: "Girls of War" in fact, from research carried out for a feature on the post-Russia Politkovskaya.
The investigation of Scholl describes a journey in the Caucasus through the stories of women faced.
Women who have experienced the deportation, hunger, fear of not having food for their children. Women who have experienced war. As Eva, a constant presence in the book, almost a guide in this journey into despair. Eva, mother of two and wife of a domineering husband who beats her. The same Eve that he chose to document the reality of Chechnya with a camera, putting constantly threatened his life. A choice also made by Natalija, who was killed two years after the publication in German of this book. And Lisa, a famous singer Chechen foreign to Moscow, which recounts his time with the songs. But Sarah, Rosa and many other Chechen women forced to live in terror of a war never ended and the macho tradition of the "law of the mountains."
maintaining a marginal position, to be discreet observation, the Scholl leave the word to the many protagonists of this book. His direct intervention are rare, limited to expressions of admiration, surprise and sometimes a misunderstanding. Faced with the living conditions of its interlocutors and to the hope that still exists when there is nothing left to hope for, a Chechen living in an extreme condition, perfectly summed up by the poem narrated by Eva on the old man cries, where "Spend an angel asks why she cries, then promises to alleviate his pain. But when the old man said to be Chechen, the angel sits beside her and begins to cry with him ".
Sara Loddo
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