Codarin (ANVGD): “Mattarella has well defined the synthesis and perspective of a path built over the years by the Julian-Dalmatian associations thanks to Lucio Toth and enlightened exponents of various political and cultural extractions”.

 

The position of the Italian State regarding the attempts to justify or deny the Foibe massacres has already been authoritatively stated by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella during the recent celebration of the Day of Remembrance at the Quirinale.

President Mattarella, in fact, on that occasion, firmly condemning any attempt at historical revisionism, clearly highlighted the criminal origins linked in a minimal part to reprisals against the crimes of border fascism or Italian occupations in Yugoslavia: otherwise, the drip-feed of murders and violence that continued in the years following the end of the conflict and even the signing of the Peace Treaty could not be explained.

What was recognized by Mattarella represents the culmination of a journey that the associations of the Adriatic diaspora have started under the wise guidance of Lucio Toth, our unforgettable President, finding common feelings and a synergic commitment in the cultural operation conducted by Prof. Stelio Spadaro on behalf of the democratic and patriotic left.

The foibe and the exodus are now pages of an Italian history of which the entire national community is aware, while at a European level they must continue to be a topic of shared research and not of political opposition, in the spirit of the "Concert of the Three Presidents" (the Italian Napolitano, the Slovenian Türk and the Croatian Josipović) in Piazza Unità d'Italia in Trieste in July 2010 which we tenaciously pursued.

The request by the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Exiles to establish a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the massacres that took place after the war, at the hands of Tito's partisan army, and the appeal made to the European Parliament to examine the documents in the archives of the successor states of Yugoslavia, represent the next necessary steps to outline the methods and modalities of the annexationist and anti-Italian policy implemented by the nascent communist Yugoslavia.

Any attempt at polemics and speculation and any incautious declaration on these issues can only risk undermining the work done and sadly turning back the hands of history.

 

Renzo Codarin

President of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia