REMEMBRANCE: 73 years of impunity, ENOUGH. Elisa Serna understood at all meaning the back of Gabriel Celaya, "we are to death, Iberian, August 1, two thousand three, when after digging along the historian Santiago Segovia Vega Shadow began to appear remains the five were shot without trial, Sepulveda, the people of my father, Army Capt. Loyal to the Second English Republic.
Today, August 21, marks the anniversary seventy-three these crimes against humanity that continue to go unpunished, although according to the International Criminal Court, not prescribe. They are my great-uncle Elias Sanz Velasco, Mayor, Antonio Albarran, Lieut. Mayor, Peter Anton Morata, President of the People's House, Lucio Esteban, trade unionist and musician and D. Angel Prieto, maestro.
The Great Repression, 1936-45
Six years later, I drum in the consciousness of Gabriel Celaya other verses, as if his best troubadour, Paco Ibañez, had given us in those sixties an antidote to the gloom that overwhelms us Today, the rage, to check the obstruction of justice, with which the crypto-Francoist Judges seek in vain to give life to the impunity long enjoyed to this day, the perpetrators of the Holocaust Republican post -war called the Great Repression:
Professor of Criminal Law and Deputy-Prosecutor of the Audiencia Provincial de Alicante, D, GUTIERREZ MIGUEL CARBONELL, who died recently, described the following, on page 10 of his book PROCESS AND FILE A MIGUEL HERNANDEZ, (Legal Essay Franco repressor Law 1936-1945), Compass Publishing, 1992. Once data
Franco sources, describes the following data ".- Political prisoners Prison population on 7 January 1940, is 270,719 and the April 10, 1943, there are still 92,477 political prisoners (data supplied by the Director General Prisons, Angel B. Sanz, in his book "De re Prison" published in 1943, with a foreword by the Minister of Justice, Eduardo Aunos) .- Including Dead
political prisoners executed by process and those who died in prison. From April 1939 to June 30, 1944, are 192 648 people. ("Official" figures provided by the Ministry of Justice at that time, quotations from Marino Barbero in "Politics and Criminal Law in Spain".
true that understanding the past is not salvaconducto for a future without the past mistakes. But may the memory of that horror act positively, depending prophylactic rather than therapeutic in our society. "
Up the Fraternómetro!
We are who are, in fact, survivors, family and friends, victims of Franco's state terrorism. Enough of history and stories, forty years of dictatorship and thirty-one of deception, are sufficient. Or live the past or we wind the memory, we asked for peaceful means, to the highest courts, our right to justice. We
turbid fresh water that runs over the start The road from the first excavation of the Forum for Memory of Segovia, Otero de los Herreros, the exhumation of all the associations for the recovery of memory and forums, exhibitions , lectures, symposia, screenings, forums disco ... have met with statements incompetence of the second power of the state. Shouts
heaven on earth are acts ...
The data incontestable historical, scientific, Chairs of all of Contemporary History of Spain, Hispanics who have been lighting the way, without offending anyone, discreetly, lawyers International, the International Federation of Human Rights, the Inter-Ministerial Committee and support to our activities, Amnesty International, the Nizkor Team, Members, the UN, journalists, artists and intellectuals, Autos, meetings, articles or events have accumulated the jump I'm announcing qualitative gently blows of words and arguments, outside lines, modesty. Tsunami
the right to justice and modernity
The tidal wave of efforts useful for the modernization of our country, for truth, justice and full reparation, because the legal framework reforms are a fact, approved by Parliament before they die all our heroes and heroines is about to become an unstoppable tsunami.
may have to leave the uncertainty and manifest through peaceful, may have to give another twist, bind wills at ground and the heights of the mandilito do to transform once such a framework, that outdated in many respects: Amnesty Law Memory Law, Constitution prevent us from opening a twenty-first century, without any unwanted adhesion of the past.
A street with walking it is time to hand ...
In fact, after the Assembly of the Federation of Forum for Memory, literally aims "to promote and hold various demonstrations and rallies to the maximum respective courts in each territory in demand for full justice for the victims of Franco", www . Nodo50.org/foroporlamemoria
And to think, as we live, we announce something new ...
These demonstrations are intended unit, and therefore also propose to convene them all memoirists associations, human rights, and victims the Franco regime. "
I was there!
All those who share these noble objectives, must be prepared to record it on their agenda, I think. Over time, as water goes, when they surround her grandchildren about a lemonade on a hot afternoon like this, can tell what they experienced that day in Madrid, in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bLa Coruña, Bilbao, Sevilla, Valencia Badajoz and say proudly: I was there!
Elisa Serna, songwriter, former political prisoner and retaliation. Public
- España/23/08/2009
