Will forgetfulness kill us?
March has become my month of reflection, remembrance and pain since 1999. Dirty war, torture, imprisonment and impunity have been trapped in time. Over the years, there has been an increase in the types of repression, including questions. But the answers and truths hidden in the massifs of the Spanish State.
Some events in March of this year have led me to reflect on the use and survival of state violence. That is, how different authorities and governments use the ownership of oppression in the system, against a collective, community or people, also in different conflicts, contexts and times, such as state violence, strategy and political destruction.
Women and those read as women have suffered for centuries the structural violence that has condemned us to death. Today we are aware that this patriarchal domination is also racist and kills migrants in prisons and at the borders imposed in the Basque Country. And he is still dying in the Basque conflict. Not only in prisons, but in deportation and flight. I am referring to disappearances. Social and political death.
Social and political death often precedes the physicist. Invisibility, patriarchy, racism… To develop structural violence we work the ground before
In fact, it often comes before physical death. Invisibility, devaluation, patriarchy, racism… To develop structural violence, the ground has been worked on before. Eliminating, dehumanizing or criminalising those people killed to justify, legitimizing all violence against them. How do we understand the attitude towards dead black people at sea and at borders? Male murders of women*? The lack of clarification and recognition of systematic torture in the Basque Country? Or that not half of the murders committed by the dirty state war know who has committed them? This would be called political death: revenge, hide the truth, and eliminate all political values, turning the murdered into monsters and doomed to oblivion. They have the monopoly of violence, killed by violent and democratizing the violent.
I therefore consider it essential to remember resistance. Organizing pain, naming murders, quantifying them and putting denunciation on the political agenda as has been done since the feminist movement. To fight for truth as a people and their subsequent recognition. His name and existence are claimed. For memory to have a place, not only in our hearts and memories, but also in the collective memory of Euskal Herria. Let the next generations know the truth of our people! If not, forgetting will kill us altogether.
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