Sniper Safaris? Who Knew War Porn Was an Italian Delicacy?
While Italian prosecutors belatedly 'investigate' claims of Italians traveling to Bosnia during the 1990s war to shoot at civilians for sport (Al Jazeera, November 14, 2025 – a future date, how convenient for forgetting the past), one wonders about the decades of silence. This specific brand of atrocity has been public knowledge, hinted at in war reports, victim testimonies, and even Hollywood
narratives for years. But only now is it deemed worthy of official inquiry. Perhaps the convenient blind eye was less about oversight and more about the Western world’s broader disinterest in prosecuting war crimes from conflicts they often exacerbated or conveniently ignored until it was too late. One might ask, how many more 'safaris' are we yet to 'discover' from various ethically flexible
expeditions across historical flashpoints? The pursuit of justice for *this* horrific form of tourism seems to move at the same glacial pace as accountability for those who profit from the conflicts themselves.