The employers’ association of Vizcayan recognizes the progress in the recognition of victims, but assures that this is not enough and believes that “it is not too late to do justice to this important group.”
Cebek President Carolina Pérez Toledo has urged the Basque government to “promote a plan to recognize and attract the people, families and businesses who have left” as a result of the ETA threat. “It is not too late to do justice to this important forgotten group,” he said.
Pérez Toledo made this request in his speech during the closing of the events organized in Bilbao in the framework of the General Assembly of the Employers’ Organization of Biscay.
The person in charge of Cebek has emphasized that the employers’ organization from Biscay “has survived several times”, in which “the most difficult” “were the 60 years of terrorist activities by ETA, which, unfortunately, among other things, were very focused on the business community. “.
For this reason, he has recognized the “courage and dedication” of the people who “continue, as far as possible, their business activities in that unbreathable environment” that Basque society “has experienced for so many decades.”
Pérez Toledo remembered the former president of Adegi Joxe Mari Korta, murdered by ETA in 2000, and “so many other businessmen murdered (49), kidnapped (52) and threatened and extorted together with their families.” much progress” in the field of recognition of victims. He regretted that “we sometimes have the tendency to turn the page as quickly as possible and look to the future, forgetting the suffering.” He therefore called for to continue “the uncomfortable but necessary effort not only to qualify the unspeakable, but also to quantify the incalculable: the serious economic damage caused by ETA’s terror in Euskadi left for sheer survival” and although he has admitted that “calculating the data is complicated,” he has cited experts such as Luis Ramón Arrieta who “talk about 24% of our GDP and between 40,000 and 150,000 people who have left our country and many more. of 15,000 extorted businessmen.” In this context, he has proposed “something that is already being demanded from several areas, but unfortunately has not yet been realized: a plan by our Basque government to recognize and attract the people, families and companies that they are. were for this reason.” “It has been ten years since ETA disappeared. It is not too late to do justice to this important forgotten group,” he emphasized.
Source: EITB
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