Showing posts with label Gaza Vik utopia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gaza Vik utopia. Show all posts

Friday, April 15, 2011

Who was Arrigoni, the "Vik" and "Utopia" in Gaza

Vittorio Arrigoni on the cover of Courrier International, the French equivalent of our 'International' (photo taken from Facebook) In three years he had become a "national" of Gaza, respected by the people who attended a human shield by the farmers on the border with Israel or fishermen who ventured beyond three miles from the coast, where he takes the Israeli blockade.

And it is in Gaza that he met his death Vittorio Arrigoni, "Vik" to his friends, the 36-year old activist Lombard International Solidarity Movement. His group had already had one dead, the American peace activist Rachel Corrie, crushed by an Israeli bulldozer in March 2003 while trying to prevent the demolition of Palestinian houses in Rafah.