The municipalities of EH Bildu deactivate the memory websites at the request of Aranzadi

The councils controlled by EH Bildu, such as Galdakao or hernanihave closed the memory websites following the controversy sparked by listing ETA members as victims of violations.

“Aranzadi’s scientific work will not be available for the time being, at the request of the scientific society”can be read on these web pages from this Friday afternoon.

Church Councils Tolosa and Erandiocontrolled by the PNV, the recent memory search engines already closed last Monday and Saturday respectively.

The controversy initially erupted in Galdakao where the PSE-EE municipal group demanded that the city council, made up of EH Bildu, Auzoak, Usansolo Herria and Podemos, remove it from the municipal website Galdakao Oroimena the names of ETA members “presented as human rights victims”.

Galdakao’s municipal website featured former ETA leader Xabier Garcia Gaztelu, among others, txapoteconvicted of multiple murders, who was listed as a victim of violations in the category of “penitentiary policy and application of exceptional laws”, referring to the spread.

However, Covite later denounced that more cities had included ETA members on victim lists, citing Villabona, Oiartzun, Hernani, Azpeitia, Tolosa and Orio as examples.

Last week, the PNV demanded that Aranzadi, the scientific society that created these databases, deactivate the search engines until the differences in criteria that allow ETA members to be included in victim lists are corrected, since “it is not the same as a victim of human rights violations than of unfair prison policies”.

own Aranzadi was open to changes on memory websites if the “various institutional, political, academic and social actors” who have promoted these projects see fit.

Now the EH Bildu councils have shut down the memory websites, at the request of the scientific society itself.