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The award in memory of Almerigo Grilz is underway
You only need the fingers of one hand to count the empty chairs at the presentation of the Almerigo Grilz award, a reporter killed in Mozambique on May 19, 1987, in the Sala Manzoni at the Palazzo delle Stelline in Milan. With a forty-year delay, the right to memory is being exercised. A right denied for too many years because Almerigo, a journalist and war reporter who in life demonstrated immense courage by documenting the harshness of conflicts, had made “wrong” life and political choices. But wrong for whom? For the “good” people who forced his public memory into oblivion. “His memory, for all these years, has been guarded by his colleagues,...
Special issue of Dalmatica Magazine dedicated to the horrors of Borovnica
The dossier intended for the Paris conference of 1947 is a sad sample of atrocities "Secret - October 5, 1945 - Conditions of Italian internees in Yugoslavia with particular reference to the Borovnica camp and the military hospital of Skofja Loka both called the death camp". From the title of the first typewritten page, the report of our services that emerges from the past makes your skin crawl. "Shootings for nothing", "torture at the stake", "forced labor", "living skeletons" are the terrible words that are repeated in the testimonies of Italian soldiers captured after the war and who survived Tito's concentration camps. A classified report of horror...
Presentation of “Truth Infoibate” in Bergamo
The President of the Provincial Committee of Bergamo of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, Prof. Maria Elena Depetroni, is pleased to announce that on Friday 1 October at 18:00 pm in the Sala dei Mille of the Hotel Excelsior San Marco (Piazzale della Repubblica, 6 - Bergamo) the presentation of Verità infoibate. The victims, the executioners, the silences of politics (Milan 2021) will take place in collaboration with the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Exiles and with the Multimedia Documentation Center of Julian, Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Culture. Introduced by Prof. Depetroni, the authors of the book Fausto Biloslavo and...
The secret side of Tito
We want to tell the horrors of Tito in Goli Otok, the island a stone's throw from Italy where Marshal Tito imprisoned 30 opponents, including hundreds of Italians. We want to do it through the eyes of the three-time World Press Photo winner, Ivo Saglietti, and the words of Matteo Carnieletto, editor of InsideOver. SUPPORT THE REPORTAGE The black and white images of the Istituto Luce show Tito's arrival in Italy on March 25, 1971. The most important political representatives of the time were there to welcome him in the capital: «Ciampino Airport. All the highest officials of the State are waiting for this plane: from Saragat to Colombo to De...
They threw the “Truths thrown into the sinkholes”
The book on the massacres of Tito's communists, signed by Biloslavo, Carnieletto and presented by Capuozzo, blocked by the Facebook algorithm that associates "fascist" with anyone who should be liquidated by Luigi Amicone - 06/02/2021 Source: Tempi Cronache di mezzo lockdown / 35 Today, Saturday 6 February, "Verità infoibate - Le vittime, i perpetratrici, i silenzi della politica" is on newsstands with the newspaper Il Giornale. A historical essay on the darkest page of communism in Italy. Written by two journalists of great pen and great honor (Fausto Biloslavo and Matteo Carnieletto) and presented by another great Italian journalist: Toni Capuozzo. Well, an operation...
“Infoibate Truths” by Biloslavo and Carnieletto
All those "infoibate" truths about the massacres wanted by Tito. Biloslavo and Carnieletto tell decades of systematic cover-up of memory. by Matteo Carnieletto - Fausto Biloslavo 06/02/2021 Source: Il Giornale «Infoibate truths» brings to light dark pages of our past hidden for too long, which in reality still sink into the present thanks to political opportunism, banal conformism, fear of going against the grain or total disinterest. From the new American president who admires Tito to the decoration of the Quirinale still pinned on the Marshal's chest, up to the foibe discovered in Slovenia, the denied justice and the outrages to the martyrs of the...
A name for the Marines killed in Ossero
The relatives speak out: "No to political exploitation, but it is right to identify the remains of our loved ones". Thanks to the fundraiser launched by "Panorama", over 15.000 Euros have already been collected for the examinations on the bones of those shot by Tito's partisans.
by Fausto Biloslavo - January 13, 2021 The article continues here: https://www.panorama.it/news/politica/foibe-mar
The hidden face of war
We publish, with the kind permission of the publisher, the preface by Fausto Biloslavo to the book "Alps, theater of battles (1940-1945)", published by Hoepli. by Fausto Biloslavo - 13/09/2020 - Source: Il Giornale The mosaic of skulls in the chapel that commemorates one of Tito's many forgotten massacres in Slovenia, published on the first pages of this book, is the symbol of the horror of every war. After the battles, in the Alps and at any latitude, the bones of the soldiers who sacrificed themselves on both sides of the front, right or wrong, remain for years, sometimes forever. At the beginning of the seventies on Monte Nero, now in Slovenia,...
Those shadows behind the historic day on the foibe
Article by Fausto Biloslavo published in the weekly Panorama regarding the developments of the day of July 13, 2020 in Trieste, with statements by the President of the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Exiles, Dr. Antonio Ballarin.
https://www.panorama.it/news/quelle-ombre-dietro-la-giornata-storica-sulle-foibe
A film celebrates Alida Valli
"Alida", a documentary film by Mimmo Verdesca on the life of Alida Valli, has been selected at the Cannes Film Festival by Fausto Biloslavo - 06/08/2020 - Source: Il Giornale "Too many times, like my city, I had changed skin, but I was born and will die Italian", writes Alida Valli in her diary. The city is Pola, where she was born in 1921 and never wanted to return after the end of the Second World War and the occupation of Tito's Yugoslav partisans. Her words come to life again thanks to the passionate interpretation of Giovanna Mezzogiorno in the documentary film "Alida" by Mimmo Verdesca selected at the Cannes Film Festival. In view of the centenary of her birth...
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