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Established twenty years ago, this commemoration aims to keep alive the memory of the victims along the eastern border in the post-World War II era and of the exodus of Italians from Istria, Fiume, and Dalmatia following the advance of Tito’s army. A year ago, the government approved a bill to establish the Museum of Remembrance in Rome.   The...

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Italy on Thursday commemorates the victims of the Foibe mass killings in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Istria and Dalmatia by Tito's partisans, both during and after world war two. The massacres were committed mainly against the local ethnic Italian population by Yugoslav communists who occupied the Istrian peninsula during the last two years of the war. ...

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