Gernika closes ties with Auschwitz and Send tribute and the Gudaris on the first day of actions

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In addition, the United Nations gathered in the Villa Foral for religious leaders of different confessions, although several round tables with experts have been developed this Friday.

This Saturday, day 26, 88 years of fascist bombing on Gernika (Bizkaia) will be completed, on the day of the market by the Condor Legion of Nazi Germany, also supported by Italian aviation.

The most important memory will take place this Saturday, but from today there have been some remarkable events and that they have the participation of the UN this year.

So the mayors of Gernika and Oswiecimthe Polish city where the Auschwitz concentration camp is locatedToday a partnership statement that will be later A twinning agreement.

The eve of the bombing on Gernika also has the Gudaris. A recognition of the four Gudaris bataljons who traded in the Villa Foral.

Tribute to the Gudaris in Gernika accompanied by the sound of the violin that the Hiroshima bomb survived

Tribute to the Gudaris in Gernika accompanied by the sound of the violin that the Hiroshima bomb survived
Tribute to the Gudaris in Gernika accompanied by the sound of the violin that the Hiroshima bomb survived


To today’s actions, the journalist George steering wheelThat is the one who announced to the world what happened in Gernika. He was a direct witness, he collected testimonies and told them in his chronicles of the British newspaper Time.

Posthumous tribute in Gernika to the journalist George Steer, who made the world what happened

Posthumous tribute in Gernika to the journalist George Steer, who made the world what happened
Posthumous tribute in Gernika to the journalist George Steer, who made the world what happened


Survivors of the bombing attended the flow of flowers together with the authorities with whom the representative of the Civilizations of the United Nations (UNAOC) left, Miguel Ángel Moratinoswho has been launched from Gernika “A call for peace” In the world.

Moreover, the United Nations gathered in Gernika Religious leaders From different confessions. A meeting characterized by the death of Pope Francis. In the days that he participated, the bishop of Bilbao, Joseba Segura, who has assured that peace is “fundamental” for the survival of humanity and, paraphrasing Pope Francis, has described what happened in Gaza as “cruelty”.


Miguel Ángel Moratinos in the exhibition that is accompanied by the days of the initiative promoted by UNAOC. Photo: EFE

Miguel Ángel Moratinos in the exhibition that is accompanied by the days of the initiative promoted by UNAOC. Photo: EFE

During this Friday, various round tables will be developed with experts, including the so -called ‘Women for the front: the missing piece in promoting peace through inclusion‘, opened with an intervention by the Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo.

Studies of the International Peace Institute indicate that the participation of women increases the chance that a peace agreement will take 20 % and 15 years at least two years. This increase reaches 35 %.

According to UN women, however, “only 9.6 % of the negotiators women, 13.7 % of the mediators are women or 26.6 % of those signed by the peace agreements, are women.” The five speakers have claimed participation in women’s peace processes.


The Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, in Gernika. Photo: EFE

The Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, in Gernika. Photo: EFE

Redondo has emphasized the “symbolism” of the city of Gernika as “triumph of peace against war and coexistence about hatred”, and has warned about the Risks represented by the current “Gulf of Violence and Rights for Rights”.

Along these lines he regretted the lack of a “blunt international reaction” Gaza and Ukraine And has claimed that sovereignty and international law are respected.

After he remembered that the United Nations were created as “response to horror,” he said that there are serious “risks” against “the wave of recoil in rights, peace and the rise of violence.”

“Will the United Nations resist?”It has been questioned to warn the “hatred alternative” that would be given. He also defended that “only peace is the way” between people and citizens. “Dialogue is the path of peace,” he maintained.

Source: EITB

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