• Foibe, not only Basovizza
  • The solemn ceremony in Basovizza, symbol of the tragedy of the sinkholes
  • History of the sinkholes

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09 February 2018 "The massacres, the violence, the suffering suffered by the Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian exiles cannot be forgotten, diminished or removed. They are fully part of the national history and represent an indelible chapter, which warns us about the very serious risks of extreme nationalism, ethnic hatred, ideological violence erected in a system ". The Head of State Sergio Mattarella wrote it in a message on the occasion of the Remembrance Day.

"The European Union - reads Mattarella's message again - was born to contrast the totalitarianisms and nationalisms of the twentieth century with a perspective of peace, common growth, democracy and freedom. Today, thanks also to the European Union, in those tormented areas, dialogue, collaboration, friendship between peoples and states develop ".

Foibe tragic symbol chapter history
"The Day of Remembrance was instituted by the Parliament to remember a distressing page that experienced our country in the twentieth century. A tragedy caused by a planned desire for purge on an ethnic and nationalistic basis", writes the Head of State. "Le foibe, with their load of death, of unheard of cruelties, of unjustified and unjustifiable violence, they are - adds the President of the Republic - the tragic symbol of a chapter of history, still little known and sometimes even misunderstood, which tells the great suffering of the Istrian populations , rivers, dalmatians and julians ".

"The harsh Nazi-Fascist occupation of these lands, in which different peoples, cultures and religions once coexisted, was followed by the violence of Titian communism, which unleashed retaliation on defenseless Italians for a very long time: from 1943 to 1945.

The sinkholes and the forced exodus were also the poisoned fruit of the exasperated nationalism and the totalitarian ideology that characterized many decades in the last century ", underlines the first charge of the state.

"The damage of extremist nationalism, ethnic, racial and religious hatred has perpetuated, even in years much closer to us, in the Balkans, generating fratricidal wars, massacres and inhuman violence.