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Sciascia Leonardo - 3 marzo 1979

"IT'S LIKE AS IF AN ARMY WERE FIGHTING A SMALL BUT ENDLESS WAR," LEONARDO SCIASCIA SAYS.

SUMMARY: Leonardo Sciascia comments about the public question by a Liberal member of the Italian Parliament regarding the news published on the press about the high number of deaths among people in the military. "It is like as the Italian army were fighting a small, endless war."

(NOTIZIE RADICALI, March 3, 1979)

Palermo, March 3, 79 - N.R. - "I do not know how many newspapers published this news (and those that did it surely did not give it more space than the newspaper I am reading now); but the news about a public question by a Liberal member of the Italian Parliament to the Ministry of Defence asking for a confirmation or a denial of what has been published by the "Osservatore Militare", is one of the most troublesome news we could read in this moment, although there are so many terrible news on the press.". This is what the author, Leonardo Sciascia (1), writes:

"The Liberal member of the Parliament asks if it's true that from 1973 to 1977, among the young people serving in the army, 19 people died and 209 were injured due to firearms-related accidents, 347 died and 6,711 were injured in vehicle crashes, and other various accidents resulted in 66 deaths and 1,845 injuries. Also, we have those figures: 35 people dead and 24 injured due to drowning; 14 dead and 6 injured for flight-related accidents; 1 dead and 1,402 injured on the work place; 13 dead and 2,696 injured for training accidents; 3 dead and 5,496 injured due to accidental falls. But the most tremendous figure relates to suicides: 185".

"It's like as if the Italian army were fighting a small, endless war," says Sciascia.

Translator's note:

(1) SCIASCIA LEONARDO. (Racalmuto 1921 - Palermo 1990). Writer and author of several famous novels ("Le parrocchie di Regalpetra", 1956; "Il giorno della civetta, 1961; Todo modo, 1974), but also known as a polemist, he took active part in the Italian civil life for at least twenty years. During one legislature (1979-1983) he was also radical member of Parliament, actively intervening in civil rights campaigns (Tortora case, etc.).

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