A “Day of Remembrance” for African victims in Libya, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia during the 70-year Italian colonial occupation. According to estimates by historian Ian Campbell, who revised Angelo Del Boca’s estimates upward, the number of these victims was around 700 thousand. The proposal presented at the press conference held in the House of Representatives today is expected to be discussed. Besides the first signatory Laura Boldrini, there were MPs Riccardo Ricciardi from the 5 Star Movement and Nicola Fratoianni from Alleanza Verdi Sinistra. With them is Anpi’s president, Gianfranco Pagliarulo.
Boldrini: “Mattei was anti-colonial, giving him an inappropriate name is confusing”
“To commemorate the victims is to pay respect to the people who fought for freedom and independence,” said the former President of the Chamber in his speech: “Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been talking for days about cooperation with Africa on equal terms – he added – and says that the relationship between us and these African countries must be equal. This Government The phrase ‘Mattei Plan’ has been around since its inception, but we have yet to see a project, a financial plan, not even one piece of document, nothing. But Mattei’s name is mentioned. Mattei was a partisan, an anti-fascist and an anti-colonialist . It’s mysterious to use his name on a level that doesn’t exist.”
Il Giornale: “They are against our grandparents”
Boldrini then explained the meaning of the bill, which had already attracted attention. NewspaperToday the front page headline read: “Boldrini and friends against our grandparents, ‘Italian colonialists are not good people'”. According to the idea of the signatories, the commemoration day should take place on February 19, in retaliation for the attack on the then governor-general of Ethiopia, Rodolfo Graziani, when squadristi gangs carrying flamethrowers, automatic weapons, knives. 4 thousand houses were set on fire in Addis Ababa with sticks and sticks, and a manhunt was launched against 20 thousand Ethiopians who died.
“The Democratic Party deputy recalled that in 2020, King Philippe of Belgium understood the wounds of colonialism and wrote a very beautiful public letter to the Congolese president asking for forgiveness. In 2021, German Foreign Minister Eiko Maas asks for forgiveness. To Namibia on behalf of Germany Why? Because 1884 “Between 1915 and 1915, there was genocide against two groups, the Herero and the Nama. The Italians were no different, no better, as we often tell ourselves. We explain this by describing horrific details about mass murders, the use of asphyxiating gas, concentration camps.”
The former Head of the Department finally reminded that in Affile, in the province of Rome, there was a monument dedicated to General Graziani, the protagonist of the massacres listed in the introductory report of the bill. The current Minister of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty, Francesco Lollobrigida, inaugurated the temple in 2012.
Source: Today IT
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