xicoperez
29-04-2004, 03:51 AM
Xabier Zumalde, former chief of military E.T.A. from 1968 to 1976, opened an exhibition in Artea, a small village in the Spanish Basque region. This exhibition (http://www.elmundo.es/fotografia/2004/04/museoeta/index.html) was about E.T.A.'s fight during Franco (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0290542/)'s fascist dictatorship.
Two days before the opening Spain's two main political parties asked for it to be shut down as it was an apology for terrorism. The Basque regional Government also asked the Town Hall to close it as it offended the families of the victims.
And is was closed down, three times. And part of the material has been confiscated. The reason given by the mayer is: "I don't agree with it, this is not the time or place for an exhibition like this, and even less considering that I wasn't informed". (Source, in Spanish, sorry) (http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2004/04/23/espana/1082717871.html).
Is this exhibition an apology for terrorism? Remember it is about E.T.A. during Franco's dictatorship, and it has been organized by its first leader, that left the organization when he saw that Democracy was on it's way.
What E.T.A. did during this period was the same thing the Makis did in another region of Spain, and they have their own museum. The same the French Resistance or the Yugoslavian Partisans did. It is the same thing the British Resistance would have done if Hitler would have invaded, according to a program on telly (if the telly says it, it must be true).
(This is the only source I found about it in English. Click here ---> :D (http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1202009,00.html) )
What are your thoughts? (Or questions)
Two days before the opening Spain's two main political parties asked for it to be shut down as it was an apology for terrorism. The Basque regional Government also asked the Town Hall to close it as it offended the families of the victims.
And is was closed down, three times. And part of the material has been confiscated. The reason given by the mayer is: "I don't agree with it, this is not the time or place for an exhibition like this, and even less considering that I wasn't informed". (Source, in Spanish, sorry) (http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2004/04/23/espana/1082717871.html).
Is this exhibition an apology for terrorism? Remember it is about E.T.A. during Franco's dictatorship, and it has been organized by its first leader, that left the organization when he saw that Democracy was on it's way.
What E.T.A. did during this period was the same thing the Makis did in another region of Spain, and they have their own museum. The same the French Resistance or the Yugoslavian Partisans did. It is the same thing the British Resistance would have done if Hitler would have invaded, according to a program on telly (if the telly says it, it must be true).
(This is the only source I found about it in English. Click here ---> :D (http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1202009,00.html) )
What are your thoughts? (Or questions)