They took advantage of the annual tribute paid in Bilbao to soldiers and militia to send a message against the war
The Gogora Institute, the Bilbao City Council and the memorials associations have remembered the warriors and militiamen of the civil war alongside the sculpture 'Print' in Artxanda, an event that has been going on for 19 years to reaffirm their commitment to peace and coexistence.
Messages against the war have prevailed this Sunday in Bilbao intheirannual tribute to the soldiers and militia killed in the Civil War : "We don't want war. We don't need war."
Representatives political and institutional ugari have gathered on Mount Artxanda in Bilbao, around the sculpture "Aterpe 1936 – Aztarna", in a tribute organized by Gogora, the Institute for Memory, Coexistence and Human Rights and the Bilbao City Council.
Together with the lehendakari, Imanol Pradales, and the mayor of Bilbao, Juan Mari Aburto, there have also been numerous positions and politicians of the PNV, the PSE-EE, EH Bildu and Podemos. The PP hasn't sent a delegation.
In a manifesto agreed by memorialist organizations, the organizers of the tribute denounce the war. They have been celebrating this act of peace for 19 years. In the current international context, they have sought to defend the message "no to war" more loudly than ever.
Imanol Pradales and Patxi Lopez greet each other. Photo: EFE
Declaration for peace
The text emphasizes that "just as our predecessors worked for a better people and a better world, today we, their heirs, take the witness and make our ideals. We want a free people, a better and fairer world. We don't want war. We don't need war. We want and need peace."
The director of the Institute for Memory, Coexistence and Human Rights, Alberto Alonso Gogora, recalled at the event those who died "defending democratic values and the law in force during the Civil War".
He has stressed that wars have no "epic" and that the Civil War, "like all wars," had "nothing exemplary, nothing worth proclaiming."
"It only brought pain, suffering and division, causing one of the greatest massacres in our contemporary history," he added, adding that "at a time when wars are casting a dark shadow in our hearts, at a time when we are seeing death, destruction and suffering in different parts of the world every day, we must be very present."
He has stressed that soldiers and militiamen killed in the Civil War are "the best warning history can give, to be remembered now that messages of hatred, division and exclusion have multiplied." "Their totalitarian projects are a reflection of the pain that ideologies trying to impose by force can cause," he has reflected.
Dancers in front of politicians. Photo: EFE
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