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‘Lauaxeta’ shooting by Francoists

87
years ago

25 June 1937,

The writer, poet, journalist and nationalist politician Esteban Urkiaga Basaraz Lauaxeta was shot by the franquistas.Fue one of the most important writers of the Basque Renaissance.

As press officer of the Basque army, he was arrested when a journalist from the newspaper La Petite Gironde was going to show the conclusions of the Gernika bombing.

The Government of Euzkadi tried to exchange with another prisoner, but was shot at the wall of the Vitoria cemetery.

“What in good mornings have I killed the bedbugs of
a Brava ship, which I have sweet?” he wrote.
He was 32 years old.

Reading his work in the portico of Armiarma.

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