(ANSA) – ROME, FEB 10 – A debate scheduled to take place at the Rossellini film school in Rome on Italy’s Day of Remembrance of the Foibe massacres Monday was cancelled after a students’ protest.
The debate was also set to be attended by Senator Roberto Menia, who drafted the 2004 law creating a day to commemorate the mass killings and deportations of Italians living in the area that stretches from the Trieste zone in Italy’s Friuli Venezia Giulia region across the Istrian peninsula to Dalmatia in Croatia during and immediately after WWII.
Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara expressed his disappointment over the cancellation.
“I hope the event can be reorganized soon”, said Valditara, adding that his ministry will always work to ensure schools safeguard free speech and confrontation.
The debate had been scheduled on Monday morning at the film-TV Institute Roberto Rossellini but was scrapped after a protest of leftwing collective students who wrote on social media that “remembrance day is the perfect occasion for fascists to get out of history’s swamp and promote a vulgar form of historical revisionism, trying to make people forget about the crimes carried out by Fascism during its years in power – let’s build an anti-Fascist wall in every school”.
Italy on Monday remembered the massacre of thousands of Italians by Tito’s partisans in ethnic cleansing at the end of WWII.
It is estimated that as many as 15,000 Italians largely, but not always, identified with Fascism were tortured or killed by Yugoslav communists who occupied the Istrian peninsula during the last two years of the war. (ANSA).
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The debate was also set to be attended by Senator Roberto Menia, who drafted the 2004 law creating a day to commemorate the mass killings and deportations of Italians living in the area that stretches from the Trieste zone in Italy’s Friuli Venezia Giulia region across the Istrian peninsula to Dalmatia in Croatia during and immediately after WWII.
Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara expressed his disappointment over the cancellation.
“I hope the event can be reorganized soon”, said Valditara, adding that his ministry will always work to ensure schools safeguard free speech and confrontation.
The debate had been scheduled on Monday morning at the film-TV Institute Roberto Rossellini but was scrapped after a protest of leftwing collective students who wrote on social media that “remembrance day is the perfect occasion for fascists to get out of history’s swamp and promote a vulgar form of historical revisionism, trying to make people forget about the crimes carried out by Fascism during its years in power – let’s build an anti-Fascist wall in every school”.
Italy on Monday remembered the massacre of thousands of Italians by Tito’s partisans in ethnic cleansing at the end of WWII.
It is estimated that as many as 15,000 Italians largely, but not always, identified with Fascism were tortured or killed by Yugoslav communists who occupied the Istrian peninsula during the last two years of the war. (ANSA).
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