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When we talk about terrorism, we
always have TERRORISM in capital letters;
we think of the great attacks, of the
murdered people.
It is logical.
It is not difficult for us to try to
put ourselves in the place of these families who suffer great human
losses, or even in the place of those people who, not having lost their
lives in the terrorist attack, carry physical and psychological
consequences as a result of it, which It leads to greatly hinder the
development of daily life.
We do not realize that terrorism
develops in many other ways in its final objective of instilling fear in
society as a method of imposing a certain vision of things.
Over the years in the Basque Country,
other forms of terrorism have been carried out that have not been
publicized, that have not been discussed,
For many years there have been people
in the Basque Country who, due to belonging to a certain political
party, exercising a certain profession, or having certain political and
/ or social ideas (judges, security forces, politicians of any degree of
commitment, journalists , participants in citizen movements, artists,
teachers, etc.), have experienced a continuous situation of threats by
the terrorist group ETA or its environment.
It has been tried and is intended to
discourage and provoke fear through graffiti, verbal threats, physical
attacks, attacks on houses, burning of cars, etc.
in most cases, even having to live
permanently accompanied by escorts.
It is about using advertising for
persistent and systematic violent actions,
in order to create a climate of
threat and harassment that produces a feeling of continued fear and
suffocation, which ultimately leads these victims to silence, submission
or flight.
In other words, to internal or
external exile.
These other forms of exercising
terrorism have not been taken into account over the years, no
acknowledgments have been made in this regard, neither at the
institutional level nor at the level of society in general, where even,
on many occasions, he justifies these behaviors alluding that "they will
have done something to deserve it".
Throughout these years, the situation
of continuous stress to which these people are subjected has hardly been
considered or taken into account.
They have not been recognized as
victims, but they have also suffered numerous consequences derived from
all this.
This situation of continuous stress
has undoubtedly reduced the different vital areas of these people
(personal, work, social, family), even affecting all family members, and
having repercussions, sometimes directly,
In our opinion, its institutional and
social recognition is an inescapable and unavoidable duty of justice.
Adequate attention to these citizens,
involuntary victims of ETA's anachronistic terrorism, who, for reasons
of office or for other reasons, have defended and defend the foundations
of our current Democracy.