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Honor to the "enemies of the people" martyrs of communism
After July 13: Slovenia & Italy towards a common memory by Paolo Sardos Albertini - 04/09/2020 - Source: Lega Nazionale The act performed by the Slovenian and Italian Heads of State on July 13 at the Basovizza Shrine had a very specific meaning: to pay, together, honor to the victims of Tito's terror, a common homage to Italians and Slovenians who had been massacred as "enemies of the people" and who are now remembered as innocent victims. That was an important moment for the creation of a "common memory" that finally makes explicit the truth of what happened: a huge tragedy that involved an incredible number of victims and that has...
First consequences of the visit to the Basovizza Foiba by Mattarella and Pahor
In recent weeks, the Slovenian press, reported by several national outlets, has given wide coverage to the exhumation from mass graves, sinkholes, quarries, and pits of the remains of the unfortunate victims, brutally murdered by Marshal Tito's communist regime in the aftermath of 1945. These victims were not primarily Italian nationals, but rather opponents of what the regime of the time considered an obstacle to the promulgation of Stalinism: fighters opposing Tito's partisans, non-communist anti-fascists, priests and nuns, children aged 14-17, housewives, farmers, and workers. Slovenia is dotted with approximately 600 burial pits...
New foibe discovered
A team of speleologists exhumes the bodies of the victims of a Tito massacre: among them 100 teenagers and 5 women, all shot in 1945. Rosaries and combs found in the 14-meter-deep cavity. by Lucia Bellaspiga - 27/08/2020 - Source: Avvenire Children or little more, dragged by the hundreds to the edge of the Foiba and massacred there by rifle shots. The luckiest ones fell already dead into the void, for the others a long agony ended the torture. For decades the voices of the survivors of Marshal Tito's massacres have told us all this, but this time the bodies of the victims are speaking, found in recent days by a team of Slovenian speleologists in the area of the...
The foiba of the kids
Bones, skulls pierced by a bullet, but also small crosses and many buttons have come to light from the new sinkhole discovered in Slovenia. by Fausto Biloslavo - 27/08/2020 - Source: Il Giornale Bones, skulls pierced by a bullet, but also small crosses and many buttons have come to light from the new sinkhole discovered in Slovenia. The umpteenth horror of Tito's executioners, who massacred at the end of the war not only the Italians, but a quarter of a million Slavs who fought alongside the Nazis. But there were also anti-communist Chetnik partisans. The blood of the vanquished, but this time it is the massacre of the "innocents". Of the remains of 250 victims exhumed in the forest of...
Parliamentary question on Italian-Slovenian relations
We have received and are reporting this parliamentary question, formulated by Senators Isabella Rauti and Luca Ciriani to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, as it addresses the requests and concerns that the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia had raised in the aftermath of the visit to Ljubljana by the head of the Farnesina. 11 | 6 | 2020 Question for oral answer – Document no. 3-01681 – To the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Document no. 3-01681 Published on 11 June 2020, in session no. 228 RAUTI, CIRIANI – To the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation...
The exiles, disconcerted by Di Maio, want to meet Conte
The National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, shocked by the lack of attention paid to the still open issues concerning the Istrian exiles by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Di Maio during his visit to Slovenia, requests that a delegation of the associations of the Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian exiles be able to meet with the Prime Minister Conte. On the occasion of the institutional ceremony of the Day of Remembrance 2020, President Conte had expressed appropriate words and demonstrated interest in the resolution of the problems still to be completed in terms of rights denied to compatriots forced to abandon Istria, Rijeka...
High tension between Croatia and Slovenia over the Gulf of Piran
by Lorenzo Vita - February 03, 2018 Tensions are high between Croatia and Slovenia, not far from the Italian border. It all stems from a long-standing and bitter conflict between the two states' governments over direct access to the Adriatic Sea in the Gulf of Piran, which has persisted since independence following the dissolution of Yugoslavia. The ruling of the Court of Arbitration in The Hague, issued on June 29, 02, awarded Slovenia an area of approximately three-quarters of the Bay of Piran, plus a corridor allowing it access to international waters. This decision, extremely favorable to Ljubljana, has angered Zagreb, since...
Stamp duty refunds for exiles, 200 thousand euros from the Municipality of Trieste
TRIESTE The stamp duty battle. The Municipality will reimburse 200 thousand euros to the Istrian exiles who had requested certificates and other documentation, necessary to present the compensation requests provided for by the so-called “law of torts” issued in the autumn of 1996 by Slovenia. A fiscal-bureaucratic affair with a rather tortuous path, very Trieste-like, which will allow for the reimbursement of some expenses incurred by the world of exile in opening 9 thousand applications destined for the scrutiny of Ljubljana. To resolve the issue, which also involves the Revenue Agency, the municipal administration, urged by the Forza Italia councilor Michele Lobianco,...
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