The Collective of Victims of Terrorism (COVITE), the Fernando Buesa Blanco Foundation and numerous particular person victims of ETA have appealed to society and the political class to not use the slogan ‘Vote Txapote for you’ as a result of it’s “ very painful” and doesn’t assist to delegitimize terrorism. In addition, they demand that the reason for the victims of terrorism not be utilized in a partisan method.
The signatories put ahead as arguments that the expression ‘Que te vote Txapote’ supposes a trivialization of terrorism and terrorists. On the one hand, “it is vitally painful for a lot of victims” and, on the opposite, “it doesn’t assist the duty of delegitimizing terrorism in any respect,” they clarify.
The “partisan use” of the reminiscence of terrorism “goes in the other way of consideration for the dignity of the victims”, whose pluralism is inscribed within the universality of their situation as such.
The victims who assist this petition do not forget that “Txapote is the assassin of dozens of individuals.” For this purpose, that the households of his victims “must take heed to his title insistently in a slogan that undermines what the homicide of his kin meant is unworthy and merciless.”
The former chief of ETA Javier García Gaztelu, Txapote, on the National Court. Europa press
In this sense, they ask for “respect” for the reminiscence “of our kin, in addition to for the plurality and variety of the group of victims.” The reason behind Memory, Truth, Dignity and Justice “has no political ideology and may keep away from patrimonialization and partisan polarization,” they insist. Thus, they demand that no political social gathering “assume our illustration or impose on us how the victims must really feel.”
In the textual content, the signatories present their concern concerning the “use of flawed slogans” at a “tough” second for the reminiscence of the previous of terrorism. They imagine that at the moment “it is vitally nice” the “temptation to overlook and to show the web page with out having addressed the pending process of the moral, social and political delegitimization of ETA”. For this purpose, with the usage of any such slogans “there’s a threat of contributing to the devirtualization and disaffection of that reminiscence obligatory for the delegitimization of terrorism from a broad social consensus.”
In addition to COVITE and the Fernando Buesa Foundation, the victims who, individually, adhere to this petition are: Pablo Romero Martínez, son of Juan Romero Álvarez, assassinated by ETA on 06/21/1993; Francisco Zaragoza, president of the Association of State Security Corps and Forces Victims of Terrorism and injured in an ETA assault on 12/18/1988; Sandra Carrasco, daughter of Isaías Carrasco, assassinated by ETA on 03/07/2008; Mikel Iruretagoyena, son of José Ignacio Iruretagoyena, assassinated by ETA on 01/9/1998; Gorka Landaburu, injured in an ETA assault on 05/15/2001; Naiara Zamarreño, daughter of Manuel Zamarreño, assassinated by ETA on 06/25/1998; Iñaki García Arrizabalaga, son of Juan Manuel García Cordero, assassinated by the CAA (Autonomous Anticapitalist Commandos) – a break up from ETA – on 10/23/1980; Barbara Durkhop, widow of Enrique Casas, assassinated by the CAA on 02/23/1984; Josu Elespe, son of Froilán Elespe, assassinated by ETA on 03/20/2001; Ivan Ramos Torrano, son of María Teresa Torrano, assassinated by ETA on 04/25/1987; Miguel Ángel Díez Ferreira, son of Isidoro Díez Ratón, assassinated by ETA on 11/25/1985; Rafael Olaziregi Borda and Miren Edurne Albizu, brother and sister-in-law of Eugenio Olaziregi Borda, assassinated by ETA on 01/30/1997; Nerea Barrios Cuevas, daughter of José Luis Barrios Capetillo, assassinated by ETA on 09/17/1988; Juan Carlos Ábalos Bofill, son of Jesús Ábalos, assassinated by ETA on 05/25/1979; Rubén Múgica, son of Fernando Múgica Herzog, assassinated by ETA on 02/06/1996; Alberto Muñagorri, wounded by an ETA assault on 06/26/1982; Jaime Arrese Araolaza, son of Jaime Arrese, assassinated by ETA on 10/23/1980; José María Lobato, wounded in an ETA assault on 12/4/1997; José Miguel Gómez Elosegui, brother of Francisco Javier Gómez Elósegui, assassinated by ETA on 03/11/1997; and Andoitz and Ibai Korta Zearreta, sons of Joxe Mari Korta, assassinated by ETA on 08/08/2000.