> A true story: Somalia94 - The Ilaria Alpi affair
«Always looking there where the gaze doesn't reach»
Ilaria Alpi finds a ship that runs between Somalia and Italy with not well identified loads. Back in Rome she asked to travel to Somalia. Obtained office, albeit with extremely low badget with her cameraman Miran Hrovatin arrive in Africa. Quickly they reconstruct the facts: on those ships are toxic and radioactive waste disposal, a traffic that is intertwined with weapons sold by the West to the Somalis for their war. The story starts from the interview to an Italian diplomat, then moving to Bosaso: it is therefore the time to tell the names of who is involved in these "operations". To achieve their scoop Ilaria and Miran return to Mogadishu, but at their arrival they find a a commando ready to eliminate them.

 1992/12/9  Somali clans declaring war.

 1992/12/20  Ilaria Alpi flys for 1st time in Somalia.

 1993/1/15  Attempts to peace by un fail.

 1993/5/3  The command of the operation goes to the United Nations.

 1993/7/20  Disagreements between the Italian and US governments that causes the withdrawal of Italian troops from Somalia.

 1993/9/28  Somali rise up against the American troops.

 1993/11/12  Murder of the sismi's officer (the former Italian secret services) Vincent Li Cause in Mogadishu the day before his return to Italy in which he was to confer with the judiciary regarding the trafficking of nuclear waste in Somalia.

 1993/11/16  un withdrawal from operations.

 Spring 1994  The American troops leave Somalia.

 1994/3/12  Ilaria e Miran arrive for the last time in Mogadishu.

 1994/3/15  The ship Faarax Omar for humanitarian aid are seized by Somali rebels.

 1994/3/20  A Somali commandos in Mogadishu kills the TG3's reporters Ilaria Alpi and Miran Hrovatin. Much of the material collected by the two journalists (photographs, notes, notebooks, videotapes) will not be recovered.