The United Nations is urging the Spanish government to take “the necessary measures” to preserve historical memory, in light of regulations adopted in Aragon, Castilla y León and Valencia to try to enforce the law on democratic memory of the state.
The UN has censored the self-proclaimed ‘laws of concord’ PP and Vox in various autonomous governments that believe they are violating human rights. According to a report prepared by three United Nations rapporteurs at the request of the central executive, these rules could “make invisible” the “serious violations of human rights” committed during the “dictatorial Franco regime.”
That is why the UN has urged the Spanish government to do so “take the necessary measures” to preserve historical memory and prevent revisionist and negative positions from arising. These laws would hinder the right to know the truth and the right to freedom of association, the UN communications warn.
The PP and Vox governments have different regulations in the parliamentary process in Aragon, Castilla y León and Valencia. The central executive raised the issue at the UN, believing that these regulations are “contrary” to the values contained in the Democratic Memory Law adopted in the last legislature.
“The so-called ‘treaty laws’ adopted or submitted for approval to Parliament in the autonomous communities of Aragón, Castilla y León and Valencia may affect the obligations of the Spanish State, including its powers and national or local entities, in the field of Human Rights. Human rights, in particular the obligation to ensure the preservation of the historical memory of serious violations of human rights,” the UN document reads.
As they explain, these laws order “the suppression of multiple entities, projects, websites and activities of historical memory” and may “lead to restrictions on access to the truth” about the fate or whereabouts of “the victims of serious human rights violations. “.
The UN believes that these are right-wing laws they appropriate the recognition of “the hundreds of thousands” of murdered people in extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances committed during the regime of Francisco Franco, the signatories of the documents are the Special Rapporteur for the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees against recurrence, Fabian Salvioli; the President of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, Aua Baldé; and the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Morris Tidball-Binz.
Remembrance associations welcome the report
The Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory has praised the harsh UN report on the ‘laws of harmony’. In a statement, the president of the ARMH, Emilio Silva, grandson of the first person disappeared under Franco, said: “the laws of harmony are a trying to become whiter Francoism and praising the dictatorship, which represents an attack on the victims.”
In his opinion, “the best way is to fight the laws of false concord open the doors of the courts so that they fulfill their duties with such serious violations of human rights, because justice is the best policy of memory.
Source: EITB
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