When the United Nations finally decided to act, it declared Goražde and other similar areas “safe zones” that were anything but. This is the area that the Bosnian Serb forces carried out a ferocious campaign of ethnic cleansing against the local Muslim population. In 1995–96, Sacco traveled four times to Goražde, just as the Bosnian War was ending. You can always have that exact, precise moment when someone’s got the club raised.” “Now, when you draw, you can always capture that moment. In an interview with The Believer, Sacco explained: “There are very few photographs - and we know them well - that capture an exact moment. Certainly his images are more graphic than anything you can either read or see on television.” In his introduction to the book, Edward Said wrote: “With the exception of one or two novelists and poets, no one has ever rendered this terrible state of affairs better than Joe Sacco. Found to be in violation of Geneva Conventions, many of the detainees are held for multiple six month periods without trial.Īnother section relates stories of arbitrary arrest and torture for being suspected of writing a pamphlet or being a member of a forbidden organisation. This was the period soon after the First Intifada, a campaign of sustained protests and civil disobedience against the Israeli occupation.įor one chapter of Palestine, Sacco interviewed former detainees from the Ansar III prison camp, the largest prison camp in the world, which holds 6000 men, including boys as young as 16. Starting out in the alternative comics scene in the late 1980s, he traveled to Palestine in 1991, meeting and interviewing people in the West Bank and Gaza.
Five graphic novels and cartoons to politicise and criticise
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