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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

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PUBLIC knees, the dictator Francisco Franco prayed briefly. The Bishop of Madrid, Leopoldo Eijo and Garay, had said in the church of the Salesians: "I've never incensed with much satisfaction as I now do with Your Excellency."
was the May 20, 1939, barely a month and a half after the end of the Civil War and the Caudillo, triumphant, gave to the Primate of Spain, Cardinal Isidro Goma, his sword as a symbol of "victory" over the Republic.
The same April 1 was published last part Francoist war, Pope Pius XII pointed out the both the dictator and sent a telegram: "We thank desired Catholic victory. We hope that this beloved country to take with renewed vigor their ancient Christian traditions. "To this the bishops were applied, which Franco did not have to ask for your membership. The Church hierarchy offered it gladly from the first minute of the coup of July 1936.
Enrique Pla and Deniel, which replaced the front of the Bishops of Goma after his death in 1940, considered the war a "crusade" and "necessary".
The Church lived with horror the arrival of the Republic. "We have already entered the vortex the storm, "wrote Cardinal Francesc Vidal Goma just the day after the proclamation of democracy, April 15, 1931. The hierarchy lost with the departure of King Alfonso XIII privileges and many understood that faced overt persecution. "In the cultural universe of the English clergy, Catholicism could only coexist happily with an authoritarian regime," says Julian Casanova, author of the essay Civil War Victims (Issues of today.)
The October 1934 revolution in Asturias, where 34 priests were killed, further radicalized positions. Minority voices were engulfed as the canon-Arboleya Maximilian, who then asked if "the atrocious revolutionary movement has no more explanation than the unhealthy socialist propaganda", adding: "Nobody thinks that there can be tremendous responsibilities por parte nuestra".
Imposible entendimiento
Durante la República, el anticlericalismo rara vez fue violento. Sin embargo, eso acabó el 18 de julio de 1936. En zonas en las que triunfó la revolución tras el fracaso del Golpe, en pocos meses fueron asesinados más de 6.800 miembros del clero. "La persecución malogró cualquier atisbo de entendimiento entre los católicos más moderados y la República", entiende Casanova. "O se estaba con o se estaba contra. Las pastorales de los obispos veían la guerra como un enfrentamiento entre el Bien y el Mal", sostiene el historiador Pablo Martín de Santa Olalla, autor de De la victoria al Concordato (Editorial Laertes).
"Separad lo católico of English and English will be mortally wounded "
The Church rejected any solution to the war that was not the surrender of the cells. In the pulpit, sermons of hate is declaimed. For Goma, the uprising was" providential. "His successor Plá y Deniel, head of the bishops until 1968, said shortly after the end of the war that the Republic "led Spain to its ruin." Cardinal Pedro Segura Sevilla proclaimed "the final victory," the ABC of 13 April 1939. There was no room for reconciliation and forgiveness. The pope, in a radio address in English, called Franco "guarantor of justice," according to the same newspaper on April 18, 1939.
"separating Catholic English and the English will be mortally wounded in its most real substance," said the dictator in 1949. The church and state became two sides of the same coin. "All measurements are cursed by the Church were repealed," says Casanova. The curia regained its privileges. Before the end of 1939 was restored state funding of religious and clergy. In 1941, the state was already financing the reconstruction of churches in 1950, exempted the clergy from paying taxes and do military service, and in 1953, the Concordat with the Holy See initialed the confessional state. Totalitarianism

divine
The Church could not ask for more: "A change that was not necessary but on the regime extended a blanket moral guard and a little flatter Franco" he recalls in his memoirs Ramon Serrano Suner, Minister until 1942. The hierarchy officially entered in the government and advisory bodies of the State. Spain was involved in the "divine totalitarianism." For Goma, God was where he belonged: in "the apex of everything."
"I have avenged, speak! Proclaimed as early as 1939 Georges Bernanos
" Nothing moved in the Church in the first 25 years of Franco's peace, "said Casanova. The symbiosis between nation and religion, National-called, contributed to the legitimacy of Franco, who came to hold in 1944 in an interview with United Press that his regime had nothing to do with fascism, because it did not include Catholicism as a basic principle. The Church, in short, took an active part in the crackdown.

political responsibility law of 1939, and persecuted all opponents of the regime, even those who have expressed "grave passivity" and turned into informers pastors. It was payback time. Some 200,000 people were affected by this rule, which took effect in 1966, but was repealed in 1945. "The Church itself just opened his mouth nor did he feel the weight of overwhelmingly on the officiating of retaliation, "he argues Fernando Garcia de Cortazar in the Church (Espasa-Calpe).

" Not all priests are paid to that game and there were even some who refused to exercise that police work, "says Casanova. However, the curia was by hate: "The collaboration of the Church in the process of repression was based on the hierarchy itself," says De Santa Olalla. In 1940, it imposed a requirement for parole: a review religion. "Before they did not come to church. Now we bring them trained, "reflected the critical canon Arboleya in 1944. There was a gun to blow Catholicization.

" I have avenged speak ye! "said Catholic writer Georges Bernanos, and in 1939, when the retaliation had only begun.