Nicanor Sen conveys his support for the work of the ARMH in the face of “the threat of a badly named law of concord that will only generate discord”

• The government delegate in Castilla y León visits the beginning of the exhumation work for the recovery of the remains of a retaliate in a mass grave in the Vallisolean town of Mojados that was hung from a pine tree in August 1936 • Sen warns that the government will study “with magnifying glass” the document that the government team of the Junta de Castilla y León intends to approve, to ensure that it complies with the Democratic Memory Law

April 2, 2024. The government delegate in Castilla y León, Nicanor Sen, visited on Tuesday the town of Mojados, where the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (ARMH) has begun work of exhumation of the remains of a retaliate in a nearby grave in a small cemetery, to transfer "the government's support to their work" and reiterate "the battle that the national executive is willing to give in the courts to ensure that the Democratic Memory Law is complied with".

Guided by the vice-president of the ARMH, Marco Antonio González, and accompanied by the mayor of Mojados, Adolfo López Ramiro, the delegate has known at first hand the story of Pastor Pedro de la Calle Esteban, hanging from a pine tree by Falangist gunmen in August 1936 and whose remains are suspected to be in the pit in which the work has begun.

During the visit, Sen conveyed his gratitude and recognition to members and volunteers of the ARMH, while claiming “democracy in the face of dictatorship, freedom in the face of repression and recognition in the face of oblivion”, highlighting the firm commitment of the Government of Spain in favor of “justice, reparation, recognition and dignity for all victims”.

A commitment that materialized with the entry into force of the Democratic Memory Law at the end of 2022 that, according to Sen, “not only allows progress in the right to truth, but also pays the outstanding debt that we had as a country with those people who gave their lives fighting for freedom and democracy in Spain.”

A law that recognizes victims and their families, Sen said, and that “is an unequivocal sign of what democracy is.” Not so, he added, the Concordia Law that PP and VOX intend to promote in Castilla y León, which Sen has described as “discord” and which is an attempt to “whitewash the dictatorship.”

Therefore, he has warned that the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory will study the document “with a magnifying glass” to ensure that the Democratic Memory Law is complied with. “This is not a rule of concord but of discord. As is logical in a Democratic State, the document will be studied in detail and, in those parts that are considered to be contrary to the Democratic Memory Law, the corresponding actions will be exercised,” he concluded.