Adnkronos Rome, 24 April (Adnkronos) – "Today marks the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the Armenian genocide, a dark and neglected page of a twentieth century that does not abandon us, as demonstrated again tonight by the massacres in Kiev. Slava Ukraini! In 1915 a planned extermination led to the massacre, by the Ottoman Empire (still the empires, always the empires) of a million and a half Armenians deported, massacred, raped, crucified, left to die on death marches across the desert like the dust of history.
To their memory we still owe today an effort of truth, still denied, the lack of which weighs on the unfortunate situation of that entire area, plagued today by death and aggression and where nevertheless an aspiration to peace stubbornly resists, a dim light of which we must not despair in the darkness of these years". This was stated by the senator of the Democratic Party Filippo Sensi, speaking in the Chamber.
"Just think - he underlined - of the hundreds of thousands of Armenians forced to leave Artsakh just over a year ago, an exodus of a Bible of pain that we must be able to read, recognize and say, remember, look into the abyss that it opens. Truth and justice are the words that we usually stammer in the face of the human inhumanity of this immeasurable violence of the will of one people to annihilate another, so that no trace, shadow, memory remains".
"This is why today - concluded Sensi - we feel the historical and collective duty to commemorate the Armenian genocide and make more alive what does not die, the aspiration to an impossible never again, a deep feeling of silent and complicit shame, the discomfort of a silence that we break in this solemn place, where all together a few weeks ago, majority and opposition, we were able to take a step forward for peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, so that human rights can be safeguarded as human duties of each of us, towards each of us. Aylevs yerbek', never again". Senator Ivan Scalfarotto of Italia Viva also joined Sensi's words.