bury the dead, Joaquin Leguina Joaquin Leguina escribe a necessary article. Burying the dead
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The underdevelopment of the Law of Historical Memory and processing of Judge Garzón divided English society. But do not be confused by sectarian and Manichaean ideas.
Everyone -hero or villain, decent or criminal, has the right to mourning by those who loved him in life. And that grieving requires the presence of the corpse in order to bury the remains of the deceased with dignity.
That demand, of mourning, passed from parent to child. This reveals in the case of septic fields and ditches left by the Francoist repression. They were the grandchildren of the dead who have called-and call-a decent burial for their grandparents. This was, in my view, the main objective of the Law of Historical Memory. But what has the government done to enforce this law since its adoption? If we attend to what they say relatives of the dead, the government has done very little. Maybe that's why some relatives went to knock on the door of Baltasar Garzon, who, believing himself responsible for the case, ended up getting into a mess of uncertain fate.
But either way, this legal hubbub has served to cast some messages of dubious quality.
Message # 1: The Amnesty Act, as the whole transition, "was made under pressure due to the fear that produced the saber rattling. Amnesia amnesty was more than what is imposed.
This is false and also holds a slander against those who agreed to bring democracy to Spain and it prepared a constitution agreed. They were not cowards, but generous.
The previous process of reconciliation needed for that-and only for that, "was voted the Amnesty Act, whose effect is to deny now making use of the rules of international criminal law declared inalienable for crimes against humanity . These rules, according to the specialists consulted not in any way invalidate the Amnesty Act of 1977.
In fact, the only binding text with regard to crimes against humanity is in the agreement that was drafted and adopted within the United Nations General Assembly (Resolution 2391-XXIII-of November 26, 1968) does not contain any encoding rules of international law. It is a treaty-law only obliges ratifying States, that have been only fifty, among which is neither Spain nor the United States important countries in the European Union. Therefore, the English law of amnesty was not opposed to any other rule of international origin contradicted.
On the other hand, the treaty that created the Statute of the International Criminal Court provides in Article 11 that this Court has jurisdiction only over crimes committed after its entry into force, leaving out the crimes of the Franco regime and also, of course, those who may have committed, allowed, "the republican authorities.
In any case, it has become clear that the two sides in a furious practiced "ethnic cleansing."
And here comes the second message perverse
Message # 2: Republicans killed in the rear and were "honest" and its perpetrators persecuted by the dictatorship. The only ones who now must be "honest"-and his murderers are tried-repressed by the dictatorship.
What you get with a message as to perpetuate the sectarian division. Precisely the opposite of what a well-born person should want. In fact, what you should do is just the opposite, ie, expand mutual forgiveness and make the dead-all-are also of all. That those who fell under repression in the Republican rearguard not commit any crime but by be (becoming a priest, a soldier, be noble, be rich, be right ...) are claimed by the people of the left, and those killed by Franco without having committed any crime, simply, they also, be (union, being a Republican, a socialist, a communist ...) should be claimed by people on the right. For what purpose? Just to say all together, Never again!
Message # 3: All repressed by the dictatorship are heroes of democracy and freedom.
The winners of the civil war held during the years of dictatorship that "their" dead (1936-1939) on the front or under repression in the territories loyal to the Republican government were "martyrs of the Crusade, "a claim that is as far from the truth as close to propaganda.
Now, with similar enthusiasm, it is intended that all enemies of Franco who were repressed during the interminable dictatorship were" heroes of Democracy " .
This is also an affirmation sectarian, and therefore should be denied. I will then, knowing the risk they run with it.
live during the war in the rear republican anyone has taken up the matter will deny-represented for many people a hell of persecution and death. suffice reading Juan Iturralde great novel, Days of flames, to illustrate. And that brings me to a novel character, linked to the UGT and the PSOE, which proved to be an individual sinister Atadell García Agapito, who became famous in Madrid at the beginning of the civil war as chief of the Brigades of the dawn operating in the capital (also of the FAI were masters at "revolutionary repression" and mounted, for example, a check at the European Film Bravo Murillo street from where I got to give night walks and corpses fill Dehesa the Villa). These gangs are very happy to show off-armed in the rear and keep off the forehead of dawn appeared in the homes people's "right" to give the ride its inhabitants and, incidentally, "requisition" for their own benefit the property they found in the records of that home.
By all accounts, Indalecio Prieto, who was Minister of War, gave the order to stop the "buddy" Atadell Garcia and his crew, but, perhaps alerted, Atadell carry off with everything he could and went to Marseille from where he took a ship to Buenos Aires. But the ship made a stopover in the Canary Islands and Franco (maybe from the Republican warned) him out of the ship and took him prisoner.
We know from Koestler (author of Zero and infinity), then imprisoned by Franco in Seville, Atadell Garcia was in that prison and there he was given stick. Probably, his remains rest in a mass grave in a cemetery in Seville and now could be exhumed ... With Honors?
Why not accept the truth of a fucking time? The vast majority of the English right reneged on democracy in the Republic and, of course, during the war ... But is that the left, largely, did likewise, taking the drift "revolutionary." In any case, a civil war is not the best time for the defense of civil rights or for civil discourse ... "It's time for the ovens and not have to see but its light", remember?
Anyway, meanwhile noise was imposed, at last, a slogan that "the PP refuses to recognize the reality of the nasal bleeding" (sic). This brings up the last post. This is already in electoral key.
Message # 4: The English right and longing is the heir of Franco.
You mean that almost half of voters prefer the Franco English? I do not know if the ideologues who argue that such nonsense message and are aware of the nonsense that perpetrate this kind of sectarian propaganda.
But I must say, in conclusion, that many of us -tired of simplifications, we deny that the left is reduced to be the mere expression of an aversion, the aversion to a right which no Manichean dress intellectual rigor.
Joaquin Leguina is an economist.
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