'Wall of oblivion' on massacres of Italians: Mattarella

(ANSA) - BELGRADE, FEB 9 - "A wall of silence and oblivion" formed around the "terrible suffering of thousands of Italians, massacred" in the so-called foibe "or swallowed up in the concentration camps, driven en masse to abandon their homes, their possessions, their memories, their hopes, the lands where they had lived, faced with the threat of imprisonment if not physical elimination," said the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella during the celebration of "Remembrance Day" at the Quirinale today. (ANSA).