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Let's Fight for Saviano
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Roberto Saviano is under death threats for denouncing the criminal deeds of the Camorra in his book Gomorra, translated and read all over the world.

His freedom is under threat as well as his autonomy as a writer, his chances to meet his family, to enjoy a social life, to have part in the public life, to travel in his own country.

A young writer, guilty to have investigated the organized crime revealing its methods and its structure is forced to live an hidden, underground life, while the Camorra bosses send him death threats from their jails ordering him to stop writing for La Repubblica, his newspaper, and to keep silent.

The State must do every effort to protect Saviano and to defeat the Camorra. But this is not a mere police case. It's a problem of democracy. Saviano's safe freedom concerns everyone of us as citizens.

Signing this appeal we intend to take charge of it, as a personal commitment, urging the State at the same time to take on its responsibility, because it's intolerable that something like this could happen in Europe in 2008.



DARIO FO
MIKHAIL GORBACIOV
GUNTHER GRASS
RITA LEVI MONTALCINI
ORHAN PAMUK
DESMOND TUTU

- the first 110000 signatures - 80000 more and counting -

For any other survivor who might read this: please, please contact me. I want this site to be many things, but first a foremost a place for you. Hopefully we can come together and fight this. At the very least, we can create awareness, because the vast majority of people still have no idea what “attachment therapy” is, and I maintain enough faith in humanity to think that if they know about this kind of torture done in the name of healing and science, they will react appropriately. Attachment therapy has not been stopped, it has only been driven deeper underground, often practiced by unlicensed therapists and ignorant parental guardians.

News of the concentration camps first began to spread in the crucial year of 1942. It was only vague news, but consistent nevertheless: they outlined a slaughter with so wide proportions, such a driven cruelty, such tangled motivations, that the public tended to reject them because of their own enormity. It's significant to notice how this refusal had been anticipated in large advance by the culprits themselves; many survivors (amongst others, Simon Wiesenthal in the last pages of The Murderers Among Us) remember how SS storm troopers had fun cynically taunting the inmates: "However this war may end, we have won the war against you; none of you will be left to bear witness, even if someone were to survive, the world will not believe him. There will perhaps be suspicions, discussions, research by historians, but there will be no certainties, because we will destroy the evidence together with you. And even if some proof should remain and some of you survive, people will say that the events are too monstrous to be believed; they will say that they are the exaggerations of Allied propaganda and will believe us, who will deny everything, and not you. We will be the ones to dictate the history of the Lagers."

Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved.

Le prime notizie sui campi d’annientamento nazisti hanno cominciato a diffondersi nell’anno cruciale 1942. Erano notizie vaghe, tuttavia tra loro concordi: delineavano una strage di proporzioni così vaste, di una crudeltà così spinta, di motivazioni così intricate, che il pubblico tendeva a rifiutarle per la loro stessa enormità. È significativo come questo rifiuto fosse stato previsto con ampio anticipo dagli stessi colpevoli; molti sopravvissuti (tra gli altri, Simon Wiesenthal nelle ultime pagine di Gli assassini sono fra noi, Garzanti, Milano 1970) ricordano che i militi delle SS si divertivano ad ammonire cinicamente i prigionieri: "In qualunque modo questa guerra finisca, la guerra contro di voi l’abbiamo vinta noi; nessuno di voi rimarrà per portare testimonianza, ma se anche qualcuno scampasse, il mondo non gli crederà. Forse ci saranno sospetti, discussioni, ricerche di storici, ma non ci saranno certezze, perché noi distruggeremo le prove insieme con voi. E quando anche qualche prova dovesse rimanere,e qualcuno di voi sopravvivere, la gente dirà che i fatti che voi raccontate sono troppo mostruosi per essere creduti: dirà che sono esagerazioni della propaganda alleata, e crederà a noi, che negheremo tutto, e non a voi. La storia dei Lager saremo noi a dettarla."

Primo Levi, I sommersi e i salvati, prefazione.