Oriani-Ambrosini: Salvate Marco Pannella
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- Created on Monday, 17 December 2012 14:32
Il parlamentare italo-sudafricano Mario Oriani Ambrosini ha chiesto all'ambasciatore d'Italia in Sud Africa di unire la sua voce a quelle di personalità di tutto il mondo per salvare la vita di Marco Pannella, al settimo giorno di uno sciopero della fame e della sete che rischia di diventare fatale per il vecchio leone radicale, che ha ormai 83 anni. L'onorevole Ambrosini afferma nella sua lettera che "la morte di Pannella sarebbe una terribile perdita per l'umanità e una infamante condanna dell'incompetenza, dell'insensibilità e dell'inefficienza dell'intero sistema di governo dell'Italia". Al principio di quest'anno l'onorevole Ambrosini aveva proposto Marco Pannella quale candidato al Nobel per la Pace.
L'attuale sciopero della fame e della sete di Pannella, uno di decine effettuati dal capo radicale nella sua lunga carriera politica, è motivato dalle violazioni dei diritti umani nelle prigioni italiane, costantemente sovraffollate e inadeguate alla protezione della dignità umana dei detenuti.
Qui sotto la lettera dell'onorevole Ambrosini all'ambasciatore d'Italia in Sud Africa:
H.E. Ambassador Vincenzo Schioppa
Ambassador of the Republic of Italy
Pretoria, South Africa
Your Excellency:
I am writing also on behalf of many fellow human rights advocates in South Africa. I am writing to you both as a South African Member of Parliament and a son of Italy. I am writing to kindly request you to convey to your Government our humble but sincere and intensely felt plea that the Italian Government takes whatever measure are necessary to save the life of Marco Pannella, perhaps the most prominent human rights advocate of our age, one of Italy greatest sons and the only true surviving heir of the Risorgimento known to me
Pannella has engaged in repeated hunger and thirst strikes to bring national and international attention on the continuing and persistent human rights violations in Italian prisons, most of which are due to dramatic overcrowding and underfunding and a lack of human right-based culture within the Italian prison system. After several weeks of hunger strike and a week of thirst strike, Pannella has been hospitalized in terminal conditions and may not survive if does not accept to terminate his noble strike at once.
Pannella has pioneered radical nonviolent human rights actions in Europe for 60 years. Africa owes to his relentless hunger strikes and political action that the Italian government first and the European governments afterwards dedicated a fix percentage of their respective budgets to humanitarian assistance to Africa’s poor regions. The word owes to him the international moratorium on the death penalty which has been subscribed to by most civilized countries. He pioneered environmental issues when those concerned about the environment were disregarded as tree-huggers nutcase. He pioneered the right to divorce, abortion, gay rights, and the freedom of curative medical research when those promoting causes of this type were cast out of polite society. Pannella has championed human rights causes from Tibet to Vietnam and throughout Africa.
Pannella’s death under these circumstances would be a terrible loss for mankind and a grave indictment of the entire system of government of Italy and its underpinning moral integrity and fortitude.
Please remain assured of the highest senses of my esteem.
Best regards,
Mario G.R. Oriani-Ambrosini. MP
Room 102
MarKS Building
Parliament
P.O. Box 15
Cape Town 8001
