Quotes By Deborah Sampson Gannett

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Article published in the journal International (No. 770, 2008) and written by Cristina:

Last week I participated for the first time at a meeting of the National Italian-Somali. Five years ago I was impressed by the energy of desecrating Gianni Mari dell'Ancis president, spoke at a conference rather pompous. I have not had, at that time, how to approach him, but since then we kept hearing over the phone like old friends. Source of endless stories and anecdotes, I was participating in what is, for many years, his research and appassionataL'Ancis battle since 1996, the goal for which was founded is primarily to gather public and private documents that reconstruct the history of intermarriage between Italy and Somalia, described by Mari "forbidden fruit of the long relationship between Italy and Somalia." The political dell'Ancis the accreditation by the Italian state's responsibility to harassment and physical and psychological damage suffered by the Italian Somali children and their mothers. "We demand that the state makes public an apology," said Antonio Murat, a member of the association. Torn from their mothers at a very young age and grew up in boarding schools where they lived completely isolated from the Italian community and the Somali, the mestizos continued to suffer harassment well after the end of World War II and regardless of the racial laws. The majority of births to Somali mother and Italian father there are, in fact, during the period of the AFIS (Italian Trusteeship) between 1950 and 1960 years of Independence of Somalia. Colleges arose between the boys a strong sense of group response to the double insulation lived. In the interconnectedness of exciting finds on the other side and I attended the meeting in Rome, I was very impressed with the story told to me by Anna Gargiulo, starting from Modena to Rome, along with two friends from other cities in the north, on the trail of a fellow school disappeared. Someone had told them that he lived as a homeless vagabond. The research culminated with the discovery of his death.
Among these was the mother of a childhood friend, Olivia Marino, who as a child I considered very bella.La Italian school and the "House of Italy" in Mogadishu were a hybrid and gap also closed in the Eighties when I started dating, but probably not retain even the shadow of that isolation oppressive that they must have lived the Italian Somalia in colleges.