This Saturday the act of homage and remembrance came about within the Plaza de la Paz-José Couso, at 12:00 p.m., organized by Izquierda Unida and by which the household and quite a few neighbors have participated and the place a crown has been deposited of flowers.
“In this final yr we’re seeing pictures that remind us once more of that battle, that of Iraq, which, like all of them, represents the best exponent of the failure of the human being, of the solidarity of the peoples and of freedom,” he stated in a press release. IU in reference to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“Unfortunately, in all wars there are victims, however the case of José Couso and his Ukrainian companion, Taras Protsyuk, is a battle crime, since they weren’t in the course of fight and it was not a misplaced torpedo that ended their lives, however that they have been victims of a projectile from an American tank that was launched in opposition to the Palestine Hotel, the place there have been solely journalists telling an uncomfortable fact”, they insist.
At that second, they level out, “one other battle” started, that of José Couso’s household demanding “investigation and justice” for his homicide. “We have been remembering José Couso for 20 years in order that this battle crime is just not silenced, to stop the falsehoods and half-truths of those that need to justify it from gaining energy,” they stress.
They remorse that in these years “too many governments” have handed by Moncloa, “some torpedoing the trigger, others modifying the legal guidelines in order to not need to convict the responsible and the present one, disappointing a household that has been constant and preventing for 20 years for the restoration of common justice that might make it doable to guage murders in Spain”.
“A progressive authorities can not stay motionless within the face of the injustice and outrages of an invading military, whatever the nation it’s from. And it can not underestimate the ache of a household and of a complete society, with out compensation, past compensation that’s paid with out disgrace for the Government itself, the crime dedicated with prison penalties for its materials and mental authors”, they denounce.
They disfigure what they name a “double yardstick”, which “profoundly damages the credibility of the democratic system”, censuring the violence that happens in Ukraine and ignoring the investigation and justice for José Couso.
“It is a time by which it’s extra essential than ever to defend the best to the reality, which might solely be advised by freedom, as José Couso did, who will at all times be an instance of dignity and a benchmark within the seek for common justice in order that murders like yours don’t go unpunished,” they conclude.
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