Pradales accuses governments of hiding March 3 "under the carpet" and calls for documents to be declassified
The lehendakari has called for "truth, justice, recognition and reparation for the victims" on the 50th anniversary of the massacre of 3 March 1976. "We need a full and inclusive memory, because only then can the wound that is still open be closed. The commitment of the Basque Government and myself to the victims is total."
The President has called for "truth, justice, recognition and reparation for the victims" 50 years after the March 3, 1976 massacre. a day when the Spanish Armed Police entered the Church of San Francisco de Assisi in Zaramaga and violently suppressed an assembly of workers held there. Five workers were killed and hundreds were injured.
Pradales presidedover the commemorative eventheld this Tuesday at the Villa Suso Palace in Vitoria-Gasteiz Gogora, organized by the Institute for Memory, Coexistence and Human Rights Enstitu and attended by, among others, the Counsellor for Justice and Human Rights, María Jesús San José, the General Deputy of Álava, Ramiro González and the Mayor of Vitoria.
At the beginning of the agreement, the President recalled that 50 years ago "five sons of this country were shot and brutally killed: José Castillo García, Bienvenido Pereda Moral, Romualdo Barroso Chaparro, Francisco Aznar Clemente and Pedro María Martínez Ocio." He explained that there were five workers on strike, all young, "who had their whole lives ahead":
He has also recalled that hundreds of other people were injured in the riots, many of them seriously, and has stressed that no one has been tried for the events, "there was no responsibility or justice", something that is still due, in his words, to the victims, relatives and relatives. "But also to everyone else, because building memory is strengthening coexistence," he added.
That is why he has denounced "aloud this cruelty, the concealment of what happened and the helplessness of the victims", while praising "the dignity and commitment of the victims of 3 March for the solidarity they showed for labour rights and the most vulnerable in a very difficult context." "In our country half a million people joined the strike that day, taking great risks behind their backs, because the strike was banned and there was only one legal union that came from Francoism," he said.
The President stressed that "truth, justice, recognition and reparation forvictims are the basic principles set out in the statutes of the Memorial Foundation on 3 March ".
"Today, 50 years later, unfortunately, we have a long way to go until they are guaranteed, a path on which various associations in the Basque Country are working. Those who committed these crimes knew perfectly well what they were doing. It is enough to listen to the police officers, happy to say" good work ", proud to be" part of the greatest beating in history "and to have fired" a thousand shots ".
He also recalled the words of the then Minister of the Interior, Manuel Fraga, who "proudly" said that "the street was his" and wanted "that sad example to be a lesson for the whole country."
Official Secrets Act
"A thousand questions arise: Why did all this happen? Why did the truth hide? Why did all the governments of democracy, whether of one colour or another, keep the matter under the carpet? Why is the truth published in fascicles?
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