They Have a Point

Death does not discriminate, the Spanish State that burdens the families and loved ones of Basque prisoners does discriminate.

It's up to the international community's human rights watchdogs to realize how devastating this practice of "the dispersion" is and create mechanisms to put an end to it.

Here is part of a note appeared at Berria English:

Solaguren’s death is “state murder” says Etxerat

Basque prisoners’ families and friends say the dispersion is a “carefully calculated policy” and have appealed for a uniting of forces to oppose this prisons policy

Irene Arrizurieta – IRUÑEA (Pamplona)

Etxerat yesterday blamed the dispersion of Basque prisoners for killing people. This support group pointed out that the dispersion was “a very carefully calculated policy by the [Spanish] State” and that was why Karmele Solaguren’s death constituted “state murder”.

Etxerat members spoke of their profound anger and hurt during a crowded press conference in Iruñea (Pamplona) yesterday. They denounced the death of Karmele Solaguren, the mother of the Basque prisoner Ekain Gerra. Etxerat’s spokesman Imanol Haranburu pointed out that the dispersion policy killed people. Haranburu was accompanied at the press conference by over 50 friends and relatives of Basque prisoners; each held a poster bearing the words Hurrengoa ni izan naiteke (I could be the next). “Each one of us here is saying ‘I could be the next’, because the dispersion policy does not discriminate between people.

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