From the platform, which includes fifteen memorial groups and victims of police violence, they have criticized the fact that the Memorial Center “abstracts from the demands of perpetrators who have ties to the state.”
Remembrance groups and victims of police violence gathered on the platform Bear memory have denounced that the awarding of the Memorial Center Foundation for Victims of Terrorism with the city’s gold medal by the Vitoria-Gasteiz City Council is a “humiliation and an insult”.
Memoria Osoa, to which fifteen of these associations belong, met in the capital of Álava, where it read out a statement showing its absolute rejection of this decision, also rejected by EH Bildu.
From the podium, your spokesperson Nerea Martinez has criticized the fact that the Memorial Center aims “to the imposition of an official story that part of those who deny the existence of further victims not recognised by the monument” and that, moreover, “the abstraction of the demands on perpetrators with ties to the state”.
“Distinct yourself with the highest distinction of the city imposed a biased story “It is a humiliation and an unparalleled aggression,” Martínez stressed, adding that it also “goes against the model of coexistence of Basque society.”
In this sense, the statement points out that “there are still victims of human rights violations caused by state violence” who are in the recognition phase through various laws that require the public power to “promote and facilitate”.
For this reason, he has urged that work must be done to recognise all victims of all human rights violations. “without exception”.
Shortly before this concentration, the mayor of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Maider Etxebarriahas assured regarding this protest that the Foundation deserves the distinction “with many and weighty arguments”. “I respect all opinions, but it saddens me to think that there are still many people who have an ethical journey ahead of them”, he lamented.
Source: EITB
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