About 20,000 people live on the surface of 305.5 square km of the Sakana Valley. Within 50 years between 1960 2011.urtera, 149 citizens have reported torture and ill-treatment in the custody of public officials. This fact shows the scale of this terrible reality, which is still closely linked to the current political conflict.

However, as the proponents of the Arg(h)itzen project have denounced, there is still no complete official investigation into the reality of torture in Navarre. In February 2020 the Government of Navarre presented a report analysing 169 cases of torture accredited in the period 1960 and 1978, but since 1978 it has not been investigated, after the Superior Court of Justice of Navarre paralysed the project launched by Parliament.

According to the cases documented by the Euskal Memoria Foundation, more than 600 Navarros citizens have been tortured from 1960 to 2010.Se estimate that they may be more than a thousand.

Consequently, what we have known so far is that these are initiatives driven by society itself. In fact, with the documentary by Arg(h)itzen they want to make a “small contribution” to that huge collective effort.

The documentary “Arg(h)itzen, based on testimonies of people from Sakana who have suffered torture, and with the collaboration of professionals of law, psychology and health sciences and communication policy, aims to investigate and disseminate the political, legal, judicial and ideological “construction” that has made possible the practice of torture. “To help make visible the network of tools and complicities that has made it possible for the practice of torture to be invisible and unpunished.”

The main objective is, therefore, to help to know the truth that has happened, knowing that no one has all the truth, that no one can have a complete memory of everything that has happened.

Collective funding has been launched via the verkami website to move the project forward. The documentary, of 10,000 euros, is expected to be brought to the screen during 2022.