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Lettera al sig. Presidente della Repubblica

Dear Mr.

The President would like to say a prayer in any of the ceremonies with the participation at the 150th anniversary of Italy, even in a single, Please say a few words in memory of that whole generation of young Sicilian In the first years after the birth of the United Unitarian, was exterminated without mercy because reluctant to conscription. She is cultured and
man of southern origin, so familiar with the topic of which I speak. I would ask you excuse if I make some mention.
In 1862 it was introduced in Sicily (and throughout the former Kingdom of Two Sicilies) for the first time conscription. We are talking about fairly large territories in which the majority of the population lived in villages, the countryside, small rural towns. Where the information came very poor, rough and late.
For the families of "jurnatari" the son was an irreplaceable resource. 95% of boys of that age was illiterate and rarely had moved from village to village and knew a speech different from his.
Suddenly, at the home of each of these teens came to the policeman nearest to order that this day and this now had to be in the barracks to do his military service for the new King, and for five years.
And what is a military? And who is the new king, and why there's Frankie? And I for five years I can not see my family, I shall never marry and I do the wars'
No effort was made by the authorities to understand the Sicilian people or for one to understand it.
inevitable that almost all young conscripts immediately escaped to the mountains and forests and many of them survive to unite the gangs of outlaws, bandits and cutthroats who certainly were not lacking. On
in Turin to assess the problem as serious. They decided to remedy them by applying even in Sicily, and against these guys a law already in force in the provinces "infected by bandits" (Campania, Basilicata and Calabria).
A law that many had appeared just too inhumane towards the same robbers and bandits, the infamous Law Pica. The
resisting their relatives and even their fellow citizens (through the military occupation of towns and cities) were treated as robbers and bandits
The suspension of constitutional rights, therefore, was accompanied by measures such as collective punishment for the crimes of the individual and the right of reprisal against villages was introduced the concept of "collective responsibility".
I do not know how many children were killed, condemned to death or forced labor, forced into hiding and away from their families.
We know for a fact that in the two and a half years he was in effect (August 1863-December 1865) throughout the south of Italy, including Sicily, the Law Pica caused 14,000 deaths in firefights, 12,000 arrested and deported, 2.218 condemned to death.
Well, Mr. President, perhaps prolonging the silence on this huge crime committed by Italians against Italian does not help much to the deep, full, total conviction that the unification of Italy was entirely good thing.