In a statement, the Minister of Equality, Justice and Social Policy, Nerea Melgosa, reminds that in 2018 the Gogora Institute laid the foundation for the preparation of municipal memory reports and that “information deficiencies or justification assessments should be excluded”.
The Basque government has refused “the mixing and confusion of acts of violence or of victims and perpetrators” in the preparation of municipal reports on remembrance and human rights, such as those published on a website of the Municipal Council of Galdakao (Bizkaia), to which the PNV and PSE-EE have requested rectification.
In a statement, the Minister of Equality, Justice and Social Policy of the Basque Government, Nerea Melgosa, referred to the inclusion of the members of the extinct ETA, Xabier García Gaztelu and Jon Bienzobas, and Jon Bienzobas in a list of victims of the Basque conflict.
“The mixing and confusion of acts of violence or of victims and perpetrators, the lack of information, the justifying assessments or the lack of clear statements, are guidelines to be set aside for the construction of a critical and constructive memory,” the counselor emphasized.
Melgosa recalled that the Institute of MemoryGogora published in 2018 a report on the bases of preparing municipal reports on remembrance and human rights, “which are still fully valid and up-to-date and which clearly spell out the position of the Basque government”.
This document is based “on two basic principles”: the need for a “prior and clear statement of unequivocal charge of terrorism, violence and human rights violations”, and “avoid mistakes that victimize the victims againat the presentation of these reports.
The document also points out that memory reports should identify facts that do not meet international standards of serious human rights violations.clearly differentiated frames of information, treatment and assessment”.
For this reason, the counsel concludes, “the violation of the right to life cannot be treated in the same way as cases of people affected by events that cannot be considered human rights violations in the light of international law. “
Source: EITB
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