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The Anpi and the conference on the foibe
Controversy erupts in the Senate The Anpi organizes a conference on fascism and the foibe in the Senate, but politicians and associations accuse: "Denialism" by Giuseppe Aloisi - 03/02/2019 - Source: Il Giornale The Anpi, for Donatella Schürzel, has launched a "sneaky and denialist attack" on the subject of the foibe. The conference organized by the National Association of Italian Partisans at the Senate library, also for Forza Italia senator Maurizio Gasparri, has a "clear denialist objective". Similar controversies had also been raised last year, with the same organizing group as the protagonist. But not in relation to a conference like the one planned for...
Remembrance Day 2020 in Trieste
The Municipality of Trieste, the Committee for the Martyrs of the Foibe, the associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exiles and the patriotic associations present in the Julian capital have prepared a busy calendar of events on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance 2020. The complete program can be downloaded here for free in PDF format: Trieste_Day_of_Remembrance_2020_
Remember and return
On Sunday 9 February 2020, Famìa Ruvignisa and the Cristian Pertan Cultural Association present the initiative "Ricordar e tornar", now in its fifth year. The event will take place in Istria and intends to pay homage to a symbolic place in our history, and then conclude in Rovinj, for a commemorative meeting in collaboration with the Italian Community of Rovinj, the SAC Marco Garbin and the Giusto Curto Association. The program: 9.00 am: departure by coach from Trieste 10.30 am: tribute to an Istrian foiba near Gimino 12.30 pm: convivial lunch 15 pm: visit to the multimedia and photographic exhibition "A day in Rovinj" by the Giusto Curto Association.
FederEsuli President responds to Stojan Spetic
Dear Senator Stojan Spetic, We exiles are astonished by the words we read in the letter you addressed to the President of the Republic Mattarella and published on December 29, 82 on the website: https://www.lantidiplomatico.it/dettnews-foibe_lettera_dellex_senatore_stojan_spetic_al_presidente_della_repubblica_mattarella/32355_75/ In practice, more than 30 years after the end of the Second World War, what we learn is that you and, we imagine, many of your political party, remain firmly anchored to the thinking of a party comrade of yours, Piero Montagnani, who, in an article published in L'Unità on Saturday, November 1946, XNUMX, imposed a judgment...
Speech by Antonio Ballarin at the Quirinale
Below is the speech given by the President of the Federation of Associations of Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian Exiles, Dr. Antonio Ballarin, during the institutional ceremony of the Day of Remembrance 2019 held at the Quirinale on Saturday 9 February. So that what happened never happens again. This is the meaning of the Day of Remembrance. May the abominations suffered by the Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian people be a warning to human hearts and minds, so that a season of peace and tolerance may prosper and last. So that the suffering, gratuitous violence, and marginalization we have suffered no longer have citizenship for any ethnic, religious, or political group, nor because of the...
Foibe and exodus, an Italian story
Below is the report given by Professor Giuseppe Parlato (University of International Studies of Rome) at the institutional ceremony of the Day of Remembrance 2019 held at the Quirinale on Saturday 9 February. The celebration of the Day of Remembrance is not just a ritual event: in fact, it has had several positive aspects. The most important of all is a first knowledge of the drama of the foibe and the exodus in schools and universities. If this happens, the credit goes entirely to the institutional role that the Day of Remembrance has had for fifteen years, which has nothing – despite what its detractors say – of vindictive, nostalgic, rancorous...
Foibe, Tajani's clarification
Source: Adnkronos "My reference to Italian Istria and Dalmatia was in no way a territorial claim. I was referring to the Italian-speaking Istrian and Dalmatian exiles, their children and grandchildren, many of whom were present at the ceremony". This is how the President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, clarified, opening the plenary session in Strasbourg, the meaning of the words spoken on Sunday at the Basovizza foiba on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance for the victims of the foibe. "Precisely by re-establishing the historical truth - Tajani continued - it was possible to give a turning point to the relations between Italy, Croatia and Slovenia, today...
A turning point of Remembrance in Italy
The Day of Remembrance 2019 is a fundamental step in the reconstruction of the historical truth regarding the most tragic pages of history of the eastern Italian border. First of all because the words pronounced by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella during the institutional ceremony held at the Quirinale on February 9 condemned without appeal the justificationists and deniers. In front of 300 exiles and representatives of the Adriatic diaspora associations and live on television, the Head of State captured the peculiar aspects of our history and was able to present them to all Italians in a heartfelt and convincing manner, without reticence and...
Salvini and Tajani at the Basovizza foiba: “Whoever denies kills twice”
by Chiara Sarra - 10/02/2019 Source: Il Giornale "Whoever denies kills twice. We do not forget". Matteo Salvini and Antonio Tajani are also present at the ceremony at the Basovizza shrine in Trieste on the Day of Remembrance in memory of the martyrs of the foibe and the victims of the Istrian, Fiume and Dalmatian exodus. "The children who died in the foibe and the children of Auschwitz are the same", said the Minister of the Interior, "There are no first-class martyrs and second-class victims. There is no "but" for Auschwitz and a "but" for Basovizza. They are criminals and they are criminals". And he attacks the Anpi: "I don't want to create controversy. If someone in 2019 pretends that from these...
Speech by President Mattarella for the Day of Remembrance
On Saturday 9 February, the institutional ceremony of the Day of Remembrance took place at the Quirinale, during which the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella also spoke, whose speech we report below. Welcome to the Quirinale. I extend greetings to the President of the Chamber of Deputies, the President of the Council of Ministers, the President of the Constitutional Court and the Vice President of the Senate. Thanks to all who spoke, contributing effectively to illustrating, reliving and understanding the meaning of this Day of Remembrance. Celebrating the Day of Remembrance means reliving a great Italian tragedy, experienced...
