The Government Delegation in Navarre hosts until Friday the 24th the exhibition “Unearthing the silence. Truth, justice and reparation.” It is a photographic exhibition that collects the work of the Association of Family Members of Fusilados de Navarra during its 20 years of history. The images capture some of the main milestones of AFFNA 36: from the exhumations, to the Memory Park of Sartagudo -conceived together with the Association Pueblo de las Viudas-, the recognition of the Navarras and Navarros killed and deported in Nazi camps or the first recognition plates of councillors killed during the Franco regime.
The exhibition has been inaugurated by the government delegate in Navarre, José Luis Arasti, and by the president of AFFNA 36, Amaia Lerga. Members of the association’s board of directors have also attended.
Arasti recalled that last year the Democratic Memory Act was definitively approved. It is a norm that is based on the principles of truth, justice, reparation and guarantee of non-repetition, that expressly claims the Transition and the defense of democratic values, and that condemns for the first time the military coup of July of the 36th and the Franco dictatorship.
“With this law we are turning the page of the darkest stage of our recent past, of dictatorship and civil war, and we embrace and claim the best of our history: the people who fought for democracy, for the Transition, for the Amnesty Law and for the Constitution,” said the government delegate. “Today Spain is a fairer country thanks to the Democratic Memory Law; because it offers dignity to the victims and their families, takes them out of ostracism and guarantees truth, justice and reparation,” he added.
For her part, the president of AFFNA 36, Amaia Lerga, recalled that Navarre was one of the regions with the highest murder rate during the Franco regime, with more than 3,500 fatalities, in addition to imprisonment, rape, theft of babies or seizures of property. Lerga has called for a “normalization in the institutions of
trabajo de la Memoria Histórica garantizando la continuidad y avances en esta
Area through a public memory.”
“We will not be able to look each other in the eye and recognize each other if we know that there are still thousands of relatives without being able to close the duel,” added the president of AFFNA 36.
Open Administration Week
The exhibition can be visited on the first floor of the Government Delegation in Navarre until Friday, March 24 from 11:30 to 13:30 and from 16:30 to 19:30 from Monday to Thursday, and on Friday morning.
It is part of the activities organized on the occasion of the celebration of Open Administration Week, which is an initiative promoted worldwide by the Open Government Alliance (Open Gov Week). Its main objective is to bring Public Administrations closer to the citizens in accordance with the principles of Open Government: transparency, accountability, citizen participation, public integrity and collaboration.
In the case of Navarre, several sessions of the program “The Administration Near You” have been scheduled, as well as an open day and an informative session on the services provided by the Government Delegation in the Foral Community that will be held on Friday 24th.