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This man, may not again receive an award or prize for their work, but has something more valuable than that, nobility and humanity, to expose the injustices allowed by many in power, it takes courage to really leave behind so many fears and raise your voice for the needy and victims of injustice.
Speech by Gervasio Sanchez (journalist and photographer) for the awards Ortega y Gasset on May 7, 2008.
present at the event were the Deputy Prime Minister, several ministers and ministers, former ministers of the Popular Party, the President of the Community of Madrid, the Mayor of Madrid, the President of the Senate and hundreds of people.
Dear members of the jury, ladies and gentlemen,
is my great honor to receive the Ortega y Gasset Prize of Photography organized by El Pais newspaper where I posted my photos initiation of Latin America in the eighties and my best work in various conflicts around the world during the nineties, especially the photographs I took during the siege of Sarajevo. ....
I want to thank those responsible for Heraldo de Aragon, the Magazine of La Vanguardia and the Cadena Ser and always respect my work as a journalist and allow the protagonists of my stories, human beings so often lost in the drains of history , have a place to mourn and cry.
not want to forget Intermon humanitarian organizations Oxfam, Manos Unidas, and Doctors Without Borders, the company DKV SEGUROS and my editor Leopoldo Blume and unfailing support over the last twelve years and allow the project to which it belongs Mined Lives award-winning photography has its own life and a long journey that can last decades. Ladies
and gentlemen, although I have only one natural son, Diego Sanchez, I can say that as Martin Luther King, the slain black dreamer 40 years ago, I have four other children also victims of antipersonnel mines: the Mozambican Sofia Elface Fumo, which you have known with her daughter Alia in the award-winning image, which concentrates all the pain of the victims, but also the beauty of life and, above all, the relentless struggle for survival and dignity of victims, the Cambodian Sokheurm Man, Bosnian Adis Smajic and small Colombian Mónica Paola Ojeda, who went blind after being the victim of an explosion at eight years.
Yes are my four adopted children who have been on the verge of death, I have seen mourn, cry out in pain, grow, love, have children, get to college. I assure you there is nothing more beautiful in the world to see a casualty of war to pursue happiness.
war is true that melts our minds and steal our dreams, as they say in the film Tales of the pale moon of Kenji Mizoguchi.
is true that weapons circulating in the battlefields are usually produced in developed countries like ours, which was a major exporter of landmines in the past and now devotes little effort to aid victims of mines and demining.
is true that all English governments since the beginning of the transition led by President Adolfo Suarez, Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, Felipe González, José María Aznar, and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero permitted and allow English arms sales to countries with internal conflict or war.
is true that in the previous legislature has doubled the sale of English arms while the president had implications for his message against the war and today we manufacture four different types of cluster munitions on the ground whose behavior is similar to landmines.
is true that I am shocked every time I meet with English arms in the forgotten battlefields the third world and I am ashamed of my political representatives.
But as Martin Luther King I want to deny to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt, and like him, I have a dream that finally, a president of a English government has the guts to end the silent weapon marketing that makes our country, like it or not, an exporter of death. Thank
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