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Represion and Riots in the Iruña Streets (EH)
Anticapitalista - 28.03.2005 02:20
The Spanish national police charged brutally against the demo organized by Batasuna on the Basque nation day (Aberri Eguna). The demo had been called under the motto ‘Orain herria – orain pakea’ (Now People – Now Peace. The banning and attack of this demo followed the banning of the Basque candidature Aukera Guztiak this week.
The demonstration had been called in Irunea (Pamplona) for today Easter Day (27-3-05), but it had been banned by the Spanish Government Delegation of Navarre.
Batasuna maintained the call, and today thousands attended it in the area of Donibane. Howaver, a full scale police operation was in place. There were over 30 police van and all the deployed officers were on riot gear. They prevented the demo from happening. People started to disperses, and later on Batasuna’s directorship turned up in the Baiona Avenue. Demonstrators started to join them and a banner was produced. However the Spanish national police proceeded to dissolve. In the photos you can appreciate how people keep their arms up without resisting the charge. The Spanish police acted with brutality shooting rubber bullets at the demonstrators.
Something is clear in the Basque Country: the new PSOE government is not changing PP’s former policy. For them, repression is still the solution for the Basque conflict. Something else is also clear: when they talk about terrorism being the problem in the Basque Country, they hide that they are preventing any other possibilities. Parties are banned and closed, candidatures are banned, demonstrations banned and attacked, organizations are banned and their members imprisoned and tortured. A section of the population is silenced with rubber bullets and left without representation.
As a reaction to what happened, riots started to happen in Irunea’s area of Donibane where the demo was due to start and the attempt attacked. Tonight, the discontent has widespread in the rest of the city where there are also riots happening in the old quarter. The Spanish government’s policy does not aim peace but to maintain the conflict and to prevent Basques to pursue their goals.
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