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Summary: This year due to the Covid pandemic the annual commemoration of the fall of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, traditionally held at Gaeta, the site of the heroic last resistance of the Duosiciliani, will be celebrated virtually online. Saturday, 13 February starting at 14:45 the event will be marked by presentations and speeches via its website and all social media platforms currently used by the Movimento Neoborbonico, including Facebook. A welcome by Gaeta delegates Alessandro Romano and Daniele Iadicicco will begin the commemoration with the traditional flag raising. Fiore Marro of the Comitati Due Sicilie will present remarks of solidarity and greeting, as he movingly did in person in Gaeta in 2017 on behalf of the CDC, together with Fondazione Francesco II with Father Luciano Rotolo, in the name of the late Father Massimo Cuofano, the I Lazzari group of Davide Brandi. Then there will follow presentations by Prof. Gennaro De Crescenzo, as well as by Gigi Di Fiore who will present the “Pandemia 1836” book by Maria Carmela Spadaro of the Fondazione Il Giglio, and Pino Aprile will present the new book “Contro l’Oblio. Giorno della Memoria” [Against Oblivion. The Day of Memory]. All will be done to underscore the need for a true day of remembrance to acknowledge the harm inflicted on the people of the South and it the years of denial of the same.
Dichiarazione del Presidente del Movimento Neoborbonico Prof. Gennaro De Crescenzo
“Oggi noi tutti celebriamo le vittime dell’Olocausto. Celebreremo anche quest’anno il 13 febbraio (ultimo giorno del Regno delle Due Sicilie a Gaeta) il Giorno della Memoria per il Sud con una serie di eventi quest’anno online.
Nessuna “vendetta”, nessuna “divisione”, “nessun rancore” (sono elementi che non fanno parte della nostra tradizione da oltre 2000 anni).
Solo il diritto di ricordare tutta la storia, anche quella che portò al Sud massacri, fucilazioni, arresti, deportazioni con un’emigrazione ed una questione meridionale mai conosciute prima e tuttora in corso nel silenzio degli storici “ufficiali” e dei politici locali e nazionali.”
”E alcuni di essi sono anche contrari a dibattiti o riflessioni, alcuni offendono quella memoria, alcuni propongono “l’oblio” dopo 160 anni di mistificazioni e cancellazioni di verità ormai rivelate e sempre più diffuse… e qualcuno, prima o poi, ci spiegherà se è più “divisivo” il giorno della memoria o un Paese che non assicura pari diritti a tutti i suoi abitanti da oltre un secolo e mezzo.”
Today we all celebrate the victims of the Holocaust. We shall also celebrate this year on the 13th of February (the last day of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies at Gaeta) the Day of Memory for the South with a series of events online this year.
No “revenge”, no “division”, “no rancor” (these are elements which are not part of our tradition for over 2000 years).
Only the right to remember history, even the history which brought to the South massacres, shootings, arrests, deportations with emigration and a so-called Southern question never before known and which are still in course in the silence of “official” historians and local and national politicians.
And some of these latter people are even against debates and reflection, some of them offend that memory, some propose “forgetting” after 160 years of mystifications and cancellations of truths by now revealed and ever more widespread…and sooner or later someone will explain to us whether the day of memory or a Nation that does not assure equal rights to all of its inhabitants for over a century and a half is more “divisive”.
