Lets Take Their Word!

Yesterday during a demonstration against the dispersion that took place in the very heart of the beast, Madrid, people shouted at the protesters to "do this in your own country".

"Your own country" meaning the Basque Country, so, I say, lets take them on their word and make an internationally recognized Basque Country so Basques do not have to demonstrate in Madrid anymore nor be called murderers for demanding that a murderous policy stops once and for all.

A lot of people has come to this site looking for info about Karmele Solaguren, who was killed in an accident while on her way to visit her son, Ekain Gerra, who is a Basque political prisoner. Oddly enough, no comments are being made. Hopefully is not out of cowardice, the Basques do not need cowards to witness their struggle and do nothing about it, the Basques need courageous people willing to speak out against all the injustice dished out to them, people willing to do something to resolve the situation.

Here is the note that appeared today at Berria English:

Dispersion of Basque prisoners denounced in Madrid

Four members of the ‘Zuzen’ group and two brothers of the Basque prisoner Amaia Segurola were arrested after a spectacular protest to denounce the accidents caused by the dispersion policy; they were released in the afternoon

Eider Goenaga

A serious accident in Madrid resulted in two people injured; the relatives of a Basque prisoner were involved in an accident on their way to make a prison visit. These would have been the opening lines of yesterday’s news item, if what took place in Madrid’s Alcala street yesterday had actually happened and had not been a protest. And it would not have been the first news item of its kind.

Zuzen action group members organised a spectacular protest yesterday to denounce, once again, the dispersion that Basque prisoners are suffering and the accidents that happen as a result. And they remembered especially Karmele Solaguren, who died on December 5 on her way to visit her son Ekain Gerra in Alcala Meco prison.

They staged their protest outside the offices of the Directorate-General of the Spanish Government’s Prison Service in the Calle Alcala in the very heart of Madrid. At about 13.30 hours two members of the family of Amaia Segurola, who is currently in the Dueñas prison in Palencia with her six-month-old daughter, plus four Zuzen members staged a mock accident. A car was turned over in the middle of the road, two people got inside and lay down, and red paint was poured everywhere. Segurola’s relatives and two Zuzen members stood beside them. They held photos of Karmele Solaguren, the flag demanding the return of Basque prisoners to the Basque Country, the Zuzen action group’s anagram and a red, white and green Basque flag or ikurrina.

The street was crowded at that time of day and people surrounded the Zuzen members immediately. There were moments of tension, but the Zuzen members refused to give in; those on the ground and the ones with the flags next to them stayed where they were. The protest continued until the police and fire fighters arrived on the scene. The police approached those responsible for the protest and arrested them immediately; they were given rough treatment as they were made to stand facing a fence looking at the ground while they were being frisked. The people close by applauded the Spanish Police officers and shouted things like “murderers” and “do this in your own country” at the Zuzen members.

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