Coinciding with Remembrance Day, the director of the Gogora Institute has emphasized that if information is not passed on about what happened, critical analysis by future generations cannot take place.
The Director of the Institute for Memory, Coexistence and Human Rights, Aintzane Ezenarrohas emphasized the need to transfer the memory of the “traumatic events in Euskadi and their consequences” to young people. In an interview for the ‘Boulevard’ program on Radio Euskadi, which coincided with Remembrance Day, he also emphasized that young people demand ‘information’ and that ‘it is the duty of our generation’ to pass it on.
In this context he has argued that the memory duty It belongs to society as a whole, even though institutions have “a duty of their own” and that is why the Gogora Institute was founded to address “public memory policy”.
According to him, if information is not passed on about what happened, there can be no critical analysis by future generations.
“We have suffered a lot and if this has taught us anything, it is that violence is never the right path and creates new conflicts,” he stressed. Likewise, he has emphasized that the epic of violence is “a lie” and that it still occurs, albeit “less and less”.
He also referred to the Herenegun and Adi-Adian programs for victim testimonies in secondary education centres. According to him, the pilot experience of the past two years has produced “good results” and the aim is to reach all centers “without haste, but without pause” and provide materials to address the memory.
Source: EITB
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