Diary of Life and Death. Memories to Recover Humanity
This diary bears witness to specific people, not just numbers or percentages; they are boys and girls with concrete faces and names, and there are also children who were never even born. The names of civilians and military personnel of all kinds, but above all of simple people who, in the midst of this absurd but real war, lost their lives. They are the lives of communal peasants, of catechists and their families, of priests and nuns, of students and merchants, of civilians and military. You will find lists of the dead, names of those tortured and disappeared, of widows, orphans, and an endless number of the destitute. It is a testimony of those years in which we did not know whether it was better to die or to keep on living, half dead from the pain and the helplessness of witnessing so much impunity and violence. (Excerpt from the introduction).