In an action called for by the Egiari Zor Foundation in Intxaurrondo, they have recalled the more than 5,000 cases of torture in Hegoalde and denounced that responsibility and consequences have been concealed. They have asked the governments of Navarre and the Basque Country for robust recovery initiatives.
Euskaraz irakurri: Torturatuek aitortza eta erreparaziorako konpromisoa eta ekimen irmoak eskatu dizkete gobernuei
“The people who appear here today are the living testimony of those who have been martyred in our own flesh at various times in our recent history. We are the tortured and martyred of Euskal Herria.” With blue folders in hand, more than 200 people who have been tortured since 1960 have gathered in Gabriel Zelaia Square in Intxaurrondo, convened by the Egiari Zor Foundation, on the eve of the Day Against Torture, which is celebrated every year on February 13 is commemorated. .
They recalled that according to the report recently presented to the government of Navarre by the Basque Institute of Criminology, at least 1068 cases of torture in Navarre since 1960, and in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country they were according to the 2017 report 4311 the cases of torture that came to light in Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzcoa: 5,379 cases of torture according to official data; “However, we know that they are not all,” explained spokespersons Patxi Arratibel and Ixone Fernández.
As they have noted, “we are talking about a terrible figure for a small town like ours, indicating that in Euskal Herria massively and systematically tortured. But torture is a reality that goes beyond numbers, the wound that the cases or numbers reflect is deeper and the political, social, cultural and human consequences are still not fully known. performed with total impunitywith the cooperation of the police, judges, forensic doctors, politicians and the media”.
They denounce that, despite the reports of the Navarre and Lakua governments “carrying an official seal”, the path for the recognition and recovery of the martyred “still suffers from obvious gaps, from too painful shortcomings”; and they have cited as an example the lack of development that the report has had in the CAV, “as if it were a reality that they want to make invisible by putting it in a drawer”, or the fact that the Navarra report that corresponds to the 1979-2015 period “has been delayed for several years due to many obstacles to making it public.”
In view of this, together with the charge that the consequences and responsibilities of torture have been “silenced and concealed”, they have asked the governments and institutional leaders of Navarre and the CAV to take into account these cases of torture and “commitments and solid steps to deepen the path of recognize and repair social, political and institutional” of those who have been tortured, in addition to developing “mechanisms to provide guarantees against recurrence. To know the full dimension that torture has had in our city”.
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Source: EITB
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