The PNV, a formation that heads the Mayor’s Office in both municipalities, has pointed out that being a victim of human rights violations is not the same as unfair prison policies.
The municipalities of Erandio (Bizkaia) and Tolosa (Gipuzkoa), both governed by the PNV, have called on the Aranzadi science association to disable the search engines of the municipal memory websites until the differences in criteria that allow members to be included are corrected. ETA in casualty lists.
The controversy began this Tuesday in Galdakao, where the PSE-EE municipal group demanded that the municipal council, made up of EH-Bildu, Auzoak, Usansolo Herria and Podemos, remove the names of members of the municipal memory “Galdakao Oroimena”. website ETA “to those who are presented as victims”. This Wednesday PNV and PSE tabled a non-legislative proposal in the Basque Parliament to denounce the “humiliation” to which the consistory subjects the victims of terrorism, while the mayor’s office has defended Aranzadi’s work and expressed his respect for all pronounced the victims of the commune “without any exception and who completely reject its political use”.
For its part, Covite has denounced more cities with ETA members on municipal memory websites, citing examples such as Hernani, where ETA member Ekain Ruiz is listed after his death as a victim of “other acts arising from politics of violence” . when the bombs he was wielding exploded.
Most of these cities are controlled by EH Bildu, but there are also some in the hands of the PNV, such as Erandio and Tolosa.
In the case of the city in Gipuzkoa, sources from the GBB of the jeltzale formation have explained that Aranzadi’s work was commissioned by EH Bildu in 2014, when he was mayor, and that they have already demanded in the past that the scientific society the list, “since being a victim of human rights violations is not the same as unfair prison policies.
For this reason, the Tolosa City Council has demanded that Aranzadi deactivate the search engine until this issue is resolved.
The Erandio municipal administration will also demand that the scientific association deactivate the search engine, and has indicated that it will cooperate with the Gogora Institute for “restoring the memory and acknowledgment of the victims”.
Source: EITB
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