Anjan Sundaram je ocenovaný novinář, jehož práce se hluboce ponořuje do složitého vztahu mezi žurnalistikou a autoritářstvím. Prostřednictvím pronikavého psaní zkoumá výzvy, kterým čelí reportéři v diktátorských režimech, a odhaluje křehkost pravdy v nebezpečných prostředích. Sundaramův styl je charakteristický svou přímostí a empatickým zobrazením lidských příběhů v srdci politických nepokojů. Jeho reportáže nabízejí kritický pohled na geopolitiku a naléhavou výzvu k ochraně svobody tisku.
Set against the backdrop of Rwanda's post-genocide recovery, the narrative explores the stark contrast between the country's touted progress and the oppressive media environment under President Paul Kagame. Anjan Sundaram's experience as a journalism trainer reveals the harsh realities faced by local reporters, many of whom were arrested or exiled due to stringent government censorship. The book delves into themes of freedom, repression, and the complexities of Western aid in a nation grappling with its traumatic past.
An award-winning journalist courageously reveals the personal cost of war reporting, vividly recalling his dangerous assignment and confronting its devastating impact on his family. After ten years reporting from central Africa, Anjan Sundaram is living a quiet life in Canada with his wife and new-born. But when preparations for genocide emerge in the Central African Republic, he is suddenly torn between his duty to his family, and his moral responsibility to expose the conflict. Soon he is travelling through the CAR, driven by a possible spy--discovering ransacked villages and locals fleeing imminent massacre, fielding offers of mined gold, and hearing of soldiers who steal schoolbooks for cigarette paper. When he refuses to return home, journeying instead into a rebel stronghold, he learns that there is no going back to the life he has left behind. Breakup illuminates the personal price paid by those bearing witness on the frontlines of humanitarian crimes across the globe. This brilliantly introspective, strikingly grounded account of perilous warzones and inner turmoil is sure to become a modern classic.
