The Navarra government acknowledges 21 other victims of torture in the regional community

He Navarra Government has recognized To others 21 people officially as Victims of torture In the regional community, under the protection of the Foral Law 16/2019 for recognition and repair of victims for political motivation caused by groups of extreme law or officials, as reported in a press release of the initiative “Egiaren Garaia da. Including memory for Nafarroa ‘.

With these resolutions, 76 people have been recognized as victims within the framework of this Forale Law so far, after they have registered a total of 170 applications. During six decades of political violence by the state and extreme groups. “

The group has emphasized that the cases that are recognized by the Commission for Recognition and Repair “shows that again The reality of torture in Navarra is a bleeding reality that must be tackled with responsibility with responsibility with responsibility“.” Public responsibilities must be assumed and we believe that in this case the Navarra government should also continue in this context, “he said, to point out that on 26 June the international day of the support for torture victims, declared by the UN, could be a date indicated for this.”

According to ‘Egiaren Garaia da’, ‘these 21 cases are nothing more than a small sample of the application of torture in our city and the number of things recognized so far by the committee is clear to show that we have been denouncing for decades, which has been systematically applied in Navarra and the entire Euskal Herria’. “As systematic as the denial and the story interested in different agents. Acts that must be tackled, in the same way that we have to announce why they torture us and the reasons for the political context that made torture possible. Because this is the most effective way to eradicate this practice,” he said.

Moreover, he also emphasized that “the cases of torture that are recognized are not simple figures, they are people and family and friends.” “For decades, many people have silently suffered the consequences of torture, with them the weight of traumatic experiences that have marked their lives and those of their loved ones. It is time, because the size, density and intensity of torture that is still unknown in its integrity in our people has been tackled.”

He also said that “these 21 victims who are officially recognized as victims of human rights violations by the government of Navarra, put another reality on the table that has been deliberately hidden so far.” “All were tortured after Franco’s death (of which 50 years are played) and In Constitutional periodAnd not only gather several decades, but all lustra from 1980 to 2011. Because they were all tortured in the eighties and nineties of the last century and during the first and second decade of the current century, “he said.

As added by the group, these recognitions “to verify the existence of an entire structure that is willing to make torture and application of the same possible, facts that have had the legal protection of the ‘rule of law’, which we still do not know in its entirety and that only the people who have contracted the treatment only revictim.”

Barrena Pernando among the victims of torture

The MEP Eh bildu Pernando Barrena is one of the 21 people who are recognized as victims of torture.

EH Bildu emphasized this Friday that the recognition of the Navarra government to Barrena, and the other 20 Navarrese and Navarras as victims of torture “represents a new step in the construction of peace and democratic coexistence that requires a large majority of Euskal Herria.”