In January 2013 the Calandra Institute held an evening symposium on the Graziani monument, its razon detre and, in addition, whether public funds should be used to honor someone like Graziani who had the distinction of being baptized, first the Butcher of Fezzan, after thousands of Lybian prisoners died in concentration camps and, second, the Butcher of Ethiopia, where up to thirty thousand civilians of Addis Ababa were killed indiscriminately and another 1,469 were summarily executed [soon thereafter], and over one thousand Ethiopian notables were imprisoned and then exiled from Ethiopia. The video of that symposium is online and you can find it at https://youtube/watch?v=OZseMG9ro8A&google_comment_id=z13fj13ymsv5d3kmb23xehnhyvqsstcjk04&google_view_type=. But what is disturbing about all of this is that we recently found a comment about our video by someone identified as Andrea Tamburino, who states of the symposium, Topi di fogna che parlano... Onore a Graziani! Onore al Duce! Well, to each his own, I guess. But, really, are there still Italians and Italian Americans who see people like Graziani and Mussolini as those deserving of honor today? The question is, mostly, rhetorical! Mostly, because, unfortunately, Mr. Tamburino (no relation, grazie a Dio) is not alone. There are many others like him who honor the atrocities of the various butchers of the past that ran rampant in Europe and in their colonies abroad during the first half of the 20th century.
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 00:38:20 +0000
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