It is estimated that this court conducted “more than 2,700 trials of people with neighbors in Euskadi” between 1963 and 1977.
The Institute for Memory, Coexistence and Human Rights, Gogorawill digitize the summaries relating to the Basques of the Court of Public Order (TOP) between 1963 and 1977, kept at the Documentary Center for Historical Memory in Salamanca.
The Board of Directors of Gogora, which meets on Tuesday in Bilbao under the chairmanship of the Lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, has approved the agreement with the Ministry of Culture of the Spanish Government to access and digitize the TOP documentation, a initiative included in the Law of Historical and Democratic Memory of Euskadi approved last week.
This agreement will make it possible to collect and study all the summaries filed by this court against Basque citizens between 1963 and 1977, “more than 2,700 proceedings involving people living in the Basque Country”, although the aim is also to achieve the summaries of “natural citizens”. persons from one of the three historical areas”.
“It will make an important contribution to clarifying the truth of the late Franco regime and the beginning of the transition, because it will allow us to know a large part of the dimensions and characteristics of the repression that Euskadi carried out in that period and which is of crucial importance.” to restore the history of the social, political and cultural dynamics of the opposition to the dictatorship,” Gogora said.
The Gogora management meeting also reported progress in research into the victims of the Franco prison system between 1936 and 1945. According to this study, “more than 37,000 people were imprisoned in Euskadi (5,100 of whom were women), of which 16,500 in Euskadi lived and the rest came from another state area.” To date, 2,314 people are known to have died in prison.
Likewise, the Board of Directors of Gogora has approved the preliminary draft budget for the year 2024, which amounts to 6,764,884 euros and is the largest item dedicated to the future exhibition space of Gogora.
Source: EITB
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