After the provincial government announced last week the recognition of the first twelve victims of this violence, the Navarrese executive indicated that the public event “will be a new step in the process of recovery and recognition.”
The Second Vice President of the Government of Navarre and Advisor to Memory and Coexistence, Foreign Action and Euskera, Ana Olloannounced on Thursday in the plenary session of the Navarre parliament that the regional executive will “soon organize a public act of recognition” for the victims caused by far-right groups or government officials.
After last week, the Provincial Government announced it recognition of the first twelve victims of this violence has indicated that the public act “will be a new step in the process of reparation and recognition, in any case compatible with the right of the victim to maintain his privacy when he expressly requests it.”
“We will be particularly careful about this, as we are closely monitoring throughout the process,” emphasizes Ana Ollo in response to a question question from Contigo-Zurekin.
Ana Ollo has stated that “we want to look to the future, but we cannot look to the future as if nothing had happenedfrom oblivion or invisibility of victims“Our focus must be on promoting respect for the human rights of all people,” he indicated.
The Vice President added that “the government of Navarre will continue to work to care for all politically motivated victims, without comparisons or dilutions, without compensatory narratives, but by promoting a culture of peace through dialogue, respect for those who think differently, “the defense of the human rights of all people and the delegitimization of violence.”
In view of this, he assured, “he will continue to promote Regional Law 9/2010 of April 28 on assistance to victims of terrorism, Regional Law 33/2013 of November 26 on recognition and moral compensation for civilians and the murdered citizens.” Navarrese citizens and victims of the repression after the 1936 military coup and Franco’s dictatorshipand the provincial law of recognition and recovery of politically motivated victims attributable to the extreme right or officials that started in its first version in 2015, was reformed in 2019 and was ratified by the Constitutional Court in 2021.
Contigo-Zurekin’s spokesperson, Carlos Guzman, has stated that “it is a political imperative for our community that all these victims, who obviously want it, receive the recognition and official compensation they deserve.” “Let us continue to work so that the human rights of no Navarrean, anywhere in the world, are violated again,” he asked.
Retaliation by Francoism
On the other hand, the Pamplona City Council has officially recognized the group of public spaces that, from Txantrea Sur, remember the names of women who took revenge by the Franco regime and demanded equality and memory.
The city plans already show the figures Julia Bea Soto; Dora Serrano Serrano; Aurora Gomez Urrutia; Mª Luisa Elío Bernal; Josefina Guerendiain Caro; Nemesia Baztan Turrau; Ramona Zapatero Zapatel; Matilde Huici Navaz and Mª Carmen Húder Carlosena.
Their figures and trajectories will be remembered and recognized from this Thursday with the naming of the new streets and squares, contributing to the visibility of women in the city.
This afternoon, Pamplona Mayor Joseba Asiron discovered the diamond-shaped plaque that names the area as a place in memory of women who took revenge at the hands of the Franco regime.
Source: EITB
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