Anniversary of the Second Republic
Today 14 April are met 88 years after the victory of the tricolor. In April 1931, after a genuine plebiscite between monarchy and republic, the triumph of the tricolor flag was raised in much of the country. It was a major change, and progress in the social sphere, political and institutional course, land reforms, women's suffrage, increased production industries, educational and cultural reform ... still violence between left and right shaping itself in intensified regime instability, until the end of this form of state 1939, after the victory, fruit of coup, in the hands of Franco.
Even so, Needless to say, the Republic not only suffered one defeat in 1939, but it suffered another also of great importance, after the transition, where forgetting and impunity implanted, of those who had killed and tortured, in exchange for a parliamentary monarchy. But we know that no constitution can establish sovereignty imposed, If you have not been the people who have democratically decided their present, their future and that justice has been done by the past.
the art. 1 the Spanish Constitution in force today expressed "Spain becomes a social and democratic rule of law, which holds as superior values of its legal freedom, Justice, equality and political pluralism ".
How can a form of state as anachronistic as the monarchy, respaldad be a democratic guarantee in our Constitution? The term "democratic" derived Art. 1 of the Constitution, and the monarchy-parliamentary (inherited from Francoism) derived from the art. 3 Of the same, and today instituted, are two opposing terms, which can not guarantee a real democracy of all and all Spanish.
Today the streets are not only filled with the tricolor flag to demand a more just state, free and democratic, but to claim and to repair what in its day supposed to pass over constitutional and democratic will of the Spanish people, for there is nothing legitimate in a constitution that will set Franco and his successors, a constitutional model in which no Spanish and had no say.
The mechanism used to override these crimes without further, It was the Amnesty Law 1977. Our institutions are very fond of their international faldar "medals", but this internationalism breaks down and falls on the floor, when it prevents perpetrators of human rights violations are brought to justice, when it prevented by the three branches of government, that advance both executive and legislative measures to end the amnesty law, invoking to justify the failure to investigate these crimes committed.
It has come to suspend the judiciary by Judge Garzon, who attempt to carry out investigations into these crimes committed during the civil war and Francoism. And they have rejected extradition requests from Argentina Judge Servini, as our government has rejected the possibility of witness statements, and imputed, threatening to break relations between countries.
The lawsuit Argentina is the only world judicial process investigating the crimes of Francoism, through the way of universal justice, because in our country the Amnesty Act blocks all types of processes that attempt to investigate the crimes of Francoism, which goes against all international obligations which then presume.
"The memory puts people in place, to live and murdered ", This expresses the president of the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory, Emilio Silva. The Law of Historical Memory, It is a totally incomplete law, but also a lie.
With this law (Law 52/2007, 26 December) not pursued at all the need for repair, to implement truth and justice. Vagueness of all its terms, It is an insult to the need to rearm our history. It is not guaranteed absolutely nothing, but support to "take appropriate action" or "give subsidies". And given the history of our country these appropriate measures are backed by the Amnesty Law 1977. The only thing is impunity law represents, an impunity that is answered by the organization, the fight, and the hope of all those who pursue a path that justice.
A society can not force him to oblivion, It can not be required to erase a past that is present today as a form of rule of law will, a state that stands on its own crimes is not able to judge. And a people can not advance on a blood-stained foundations, You can not move forward knowing that there are more than 100.000 missing, there are families waiting to find parents, brothers, grandparents, children…waiting for justice, because progress in this regard is not "stir up the past" is to fight for the memory, truth and justice, for all and all those who fought, because not only the struggle of our grandparents but also ours, for today, for the past and for a future in which you can enjoy freedom, the right to self-determination and social conquests background, definitely, a Socialist Republic. Health and the Republic!
Laura Jaén
