Almerigo Grilz
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Almerigo Grilz (1953 in Trieste - May 19, 1987 in Caia, Sofala, Mozambique) was an Italian journalist, freelance war reporter and politician.
He was a Fronte della Gioventù and Italian Social Movement-National Right activist.
In 1977 he was elected as Trieste's FDG leader, when Gianfranco Fini, at the time FDG national secretary appointed him as national vice-secretary.
Grilz entered to the Albo of the journalists as a simple writer.
On May 19 1987, in Mozambique, he is killed during a fighting between RENAMO and government's militians: his videocamera recorded the fighting and his last moments.
[edit] Politician and "war journalist"
Grilz alternated, when he was a very young man, the passion for politics and right's activism with that for the "job" of freelance reporter to the planet's hot areas.
During th second half of 1980s, he resigned as city councilor of Trieste and decided to became definitely and exclusively a journalist.
Grilz is present in all the war fronts of 1980's: from the USSR invasion of Afghanistan to the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, from Etiopian guerrillas against Mengistu Haile Mariam to the war on Mozambique.
In the 1984, he documents the conflict between Cambogian guerrilla and government's troops, supported by Vietnam. He reported, in the Myanmar-Thailand border, the war between Karen ethnic minority and Rangoon's troops. His imagines go around the world and are buy by CBS and NBC.
