Regarding the controversy that has erupted regarding the portal in memory of the Galdakao Municipal Council, the director of Gogora has explained that she does not share the criteria that the Aranzadi association has followed on this website. “You have to explain the facts with all the information,” he said.
“No victim can be excluded, no form of violence can be legitimized and the facts cannot be trivialized. If the names of the perpetrators are on the list, what they have done cannot be hidden.” These are the three principles to keep in mind when performing a memory exercise, as explained Aintzane Ezenarrodirector of the Gogora Institute for Memory, Coexistence and Human Rights of the Basque Government, when asked in Euskadi Irratia about the controversy that has erupted around the website on the memory of the Galdakao City Council.
Ezenarro recalled that these guidelines were approved by Gogora “with the approval of all parties” and “taking into account international standards”. According to him, any memory exercise requires “an ethical filter.” “In addition to expressing the number of victims and making a chronological account,” he adds, it is “essential” to tell what happened, explaining all “the context”.
After reiterating what the Basque government said yesterday, it has made it clear that it does not share the criteria used by the Aranzadi Science Society when dealing with the report, both on the Galdakao City Council website and those of other church councils. He understands that the facts should not be confused and that what happened “separately” should be explained. “It’s not easy, but you have to explain the complexity of memory as best you can. There is a lot of pain, the events are very close, you have to take into account all the victims and explain all the facts well.” he clarified.
The controversy comes a month after municipal and regional elections on May 28. When questioned about it, Gogora’s director replied that she won’t go into clarifying why the issue has now surfaced, but she believes the controversy should serve to “provide the exercise of memory to improve”. “We believe that it is really possible to build a better coexistence from a critical memory. Being critical means giving all the information, with all its hardness, with a critical analysis and laying the foundation so that it does not happen again,” specified he.
Source: EITB
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