«Today is the day of the sinkholes. One day to remember, a day of a memory that must be shared, which must be handed down, which must be in some way a very strong signal, which has also seen a massacre on the Bassovizza Foiba that does not have a reason to be in some ways Justified and at the same time the will to remember the great sacrifice of many ». The Undersecretary at the Ministry of the Interior said so Wanda Ferro.
«The story of Istriani, Dalmatians and above all what happened – he added – too often is not known to the new generations. I think of what happened a few days in a conference organized in Catanzaro where he wondered who a woman was who represented that great sacrifice, Cossetto Norma, and few students replied. Today, expanding the law of 2000, we are 20 years after the establishment of the law of the memory day, we have included the possibility of entering schools, to conference. Remember that freedom and democracy must always be defended, but remember the sacrifice of many Italians who have paid the only price of being Italian ».
“I think – said the undersecretary inside – that the time of silence has passed. The time of oblivion is over, of a page little told also in the story books. I think that in some way light has been given to a page that does not belong to a strip of territory but to all Italians, to those Italians who sacrificed themselves. A page of history also linked to General Tito, for which we had asked the President of the Republic, in the previous mandate, the possibility of withdrawing the honor, but it was sanctioned that with his death that honor no longer exists. Unfortunately he would never have had to have it ».