Istria, found a common grave with the remains of Italians massacred by titini

The earth continues to render its dead, in this troubled region which is Istria . In an isolated area a few kilometers from Rijeka, a mbad grave was discovered filled with the remains of Italians, slaughtered in all likelihood by the Yugoslavian militias in the days immediately following the end of the Second World War

The excavations that uncovered the bones of so many compatriots killed for the sole reason of being born Italian conclude a search begun more than 30 years ago and of which Giornale had given the first news. In the common grave of Castua region, the remains of a dozen Italians were found captured at a rally in the region of Fiume in the early days of May 1945.

In these tragic weeks, Tito's communist militias went from village to village chasing the Italians, placing them in front of the tragic alternative between exile in the homeland and a dramatic death and no escape. . Tens of thousands of them had to abandon Istria, Dalmatia and Julian Veneto, in the largest anti-Italian ethnic cleansing that history recalls.

To positively record the cooperative attitude of The Croatian authorities, who would actively cooperate in the search for bodies – contrary to what often happened in the past. Now that the bodies have been identified, the bullet goes to the anthropologists and geneticists charged with rebuilding their identity: it is possible that among the victims of this mbadacre there is the podestà then of Fiume and senator of the Kingdom Riccardo Gigante, in addition to journalist Nicola Marzucco, Marshal of the Guardia di Finanza Vito Butti and Sergeant Carabinieri Alberto Diana, as well as other civilians.