Breaking… writ issued on behalf of hundreds of thousands who died in Spanish genocide

[Danielle Ni Dhighe]

Breaking… writ issued on behalf of hundreds of thousands who died in Spanish genocide (http://darkernet.in/breaking-writ-issued-on-behalf-of-hundreds-of-thousands-who-died-in-spanish-genocide/)


Between 1936 and 1977 hundreds of thousands of people were murdered (‘disappeared’) in Spain by the forces of Francoism. This genocide was blotted out of existence by a law passed in 1977 making it illegal to even mention this dark side of recent Spanish history. In 2008 the celebrated jurist Baltasar Garzon declared the acts of repression committed by the Franco regime to be crimes against humanity and accounted them in more than one hundred thousand killings during and after the Spanish Civil War. However, litigation was taken, in turn, against him by conservative and right-wing organisations, which resulted in the legal action being halted. Now, all that has changed with a number of organisations joining legal action via the courts in Argentina against the Spanish State. Now the truth of the genocide will come out. Details of the writ are given below by the CNT, one of the main litigants.

[piet11111]

I doubt anything will come of this as all forces that currently make up the state where involved in covering this up even the supposed socialists.

[Jack]

I wouldn't call the abuses of the Spanish state "genocide", that word is far too overused to describe things it simply doesn't mean. Brutal? Yes. Genocide? No.

[Ocean Seal]

I wouldn't call the abuses of the Spanish state "genocide", that word is far too overused to describe things it simply doesn't mean. Brutal? Yes. Genocide? No.
Yeah I was thinking that this would be a post more along the lines of the tens of millions of Amerindians that they killed, rather than the state repression during and after the Civil War.

[piet11111]

I wouldn't call the abuses of the Spanish state "genocide", that word is far too overused to describe things it simply doesn't mean. Brutal? Yes. Genocide? No.

When they had to set the definition of genocide it at first included prosecution based on political beliefs but thanks to stalin that was scrapped.


In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.