Sunday, June 5, 2016

Ask “truth commission” by Francoist crimes – Deutsche Welle

More than 100,000 people have signed the initiative for the next Parliament to constitute a commission “truth” of the Francoist crimes, with the aim that “once and for all,” they can heal the wounds and dignify the victims of the dictatorship and their families.

Driven by Call Civic, which the Platform for Truth Commission belongs, the initiative was presented this Saturday (06/04/2016) at the Ateneo de Madrid some of its promoters, such as the former judge of the National Court Baltasar Garzon, lawyer and exmember Cristina Almeida or politician and former Director General of UNESCO Federico Mayor Zaragoza.

All agreed on the need for believes this commission, recommended by the UN after the recent visit to Spain of its Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances and has no spirit of revenge or trying to reopen wounds that, in any case, has defended Garzón, “to reopen before should have been closed. “

the platform insists that the state has pending more than 130,000 resolve missing persons, 2,500 exhume mass graves or the tens of thousands of stolen children. “Their families are entitled to the truth, memory and justice,” he emphasized Baltasar Garzon before criticizing the PP to appeal to reconciliation as “permanent excuse” not to address this problem.

On the law of Historical Memory, driven by the socialist government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and approved in 2007 by Congress, spoke the spokesman for the socialist parliamentary group, Soraya Rodriguez, who has lambasted the Executive of the PP “has not devoted nor single euro “to that standard is met, he said. (EFE)

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