Artículos de prensa en medios internacionales y grupos de apoyo y solidaridad con Euskal Herria son las herramientas para extender la denuncia del juicio y sentencia que conculca los derechos civiles y políticos para este pueblo.
Comunicado de la Izquierda Abertzale ante la sentencia
Sentencia del caso Bateragune
Comunicado de Euskal Herriaren Lagunak de Argentina
Comunicado de Euskal Herriaren Lagunak de Alemania
Comunicado del Comité de Solidaridad con Euskal Herria de Lille
Comunicado difundido por Euskal Herriaren Lagunak de Londres
L’Etat espagnol toujours en guerre contre la gauche indépendantiste basque!
Le comité solidarité basque de Lille dénonce ces condamnations contres des militants ayant esprimé des options politiques publiques.
Des militants basques lourdement condamnés à Madrid
« La justice espagnole » a condamnée vendredi le porte parole basque Arnaldo Otegi à 10 ans de prison pour tentative de reconstitution en 2009 de la direction de Batasuna, parti indépendantiste interdit, considéré par l’État espagnol comme le bras politique de l’ETA. (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna organisation socialiste révolutionnaire basque de libération nationale).
Arnaldo Otegi est en prison préventive depuis octobre 2009. Il avait été interpellé le 13 octobre 2009, avec quatre autres militants basques soupçonnés d’avoir tenté de reconstituer la direction de l’organisation indépendantiste de gauche Batasuna.
Le leader indépendantiste basque le plus emblématique de ces quinze dernières années avait expliqué lors de son procès en juin 2011 avoir mis en place la plateforme nommée « Bateragune » (union nationale) avec d’autres membres de la gauche abertzale, afin de trouver une issue pacifique et démocratique au conflit basque.
Parmi les autres militants interpellées se trouve aussi le secrétaire général du syndicat indépendantiste LAB, Rafael Diez Usabiaga, l’une des figures historiques de la gauche indépendantiste, également condamné à dix ans de prison par le tribunal d’exception, l’Audience nationale, principale instance pénale espagnole.
Deux autres militantes arrêtées ce jour-là, Sonia Jacinto et Miren Zabaleta et Patxi Zabaleta ont été condamnées vendredi à huit ans de prison.
Batasuna est interdit en Espagne depuis 2003, en raison de ses liens supposé avec ETA, Otegi a été l’un des principaux artisans du processus de négociations avorté de 2006 – 2007 entre le gouvernement espagnol et l’ETA
Lille le 16 septembre 2011
The Spanish National Court has sentenced Otegi and Diez (who is on bail) to ten years of prison each, Miren Zabaleta, Arkaitz Rodriquez and Sonia Jacinto to eight years each.
This new judicial attack has to be understood in the current situation as an attack on the ongoing process and as an attempt to put obstacles for its development. This process is unstoppable and this kind of juridical actuation can only be understood as an attempt to slow down its development, trying to weaken the Abertzale Left and introducing juridical affaires on the political arena.
The Peace Process has to overcome the current unilateral phase and become multilateral to allow further steps towards political normalisation. We understand that two main issues have to be dealt with; the legalization of the Abertzale Left, enabling it to carry out all its political activity and consequently, the cessation of all persecution and repression against its activists. On the other hand, we call for the urgent deactivation of the cruel prison policy currently applied to Basque political prisoners.
We call on all actors to get involved in the consolidation and development of the new phase opened in our country to achieve a full democratic stage of rights and freedoms, as well as the free exchange of ideas and projects.
The Bateragune case
On October 9th, 2009, Spanish Police arrested 10 members of the Abertzale Left in the Basque Country. The Spanish Government accused them of following ETA ́s orders to allegedly re-construct Batasuna, but soon different Basque parties and the Abertzale Left denounced that this group of people had been preparing the basis for an important debate, a new opportunity for peace. A debate about the strategy the Abertzale left needed to develop for the future.
They were put on trial from June 27th to July 7th of this year. The Spanish Government’s accusation was based on the interpretation of documents by police inspectors considered to be experts regarding the Abertzale Left’s strategy and history. This was the only evidence presented by Government. As had happened in the treason trials in South Africa against the African National Congress, the only element of proof was the ideological bias of police officers and their one-sided interpretation of documents by “Securocrat” elements of the Spanish Government through the Prosecution.
Just as it was fifty years ago in South Africa, any document was seen as a “communist conspiracy”, right now in the Spanish State there is a “terrorist conspiracy” behind any document or organisation. We must highlight that the Court refused the presence of several diverse national and international witnesses who would have testified about the debate that the accused were carrying out within the Abertzale Left.
During the initial trial the accused accepted that they were part of a group of people who had been preparing the basis for a strategic debate that the Abertzale Left undertook, in spite of their arrests, in the following months. This debate was public and its consequences are well known. The Abertzale Left has opted for an exclusively political and democratic strategy and ETA has unilaterally declared a permanent, general and internationally verifiable cease-fire.
The Abertzale Left presented Sortu as a political party that rejects violence, and Bildu (an electoral coalition formed by Eusko Alkartasuna, Alternatiba and Abertzale-left independents) which obtained 315.000 votes and became the second largest political force in the Basque Country.
ANTE LA CONDENA A LOS COMPAÑEROS OTEGI, DIEZ, RODRIGUEZ, JACINTO Y ZABALETA
FRENTE A LA SIN RAZÓN EL PUEBLO VASCO SEGUIRÁ APOSTANDO A CAMINAR HACIA SU INDEPENDENCIA
Nuevamente el régimen fascistoide español ha sacado a relucir lo peor de su esencia al intentar quebrar con cárcel y más represión las ansias de libertad e independencia del pueblo vasco.
La Audiencia Nacional franquista cree que condenando a los portadores de un mensaje de paz, a los hacedores ‑junto con la gran mayoría de Euskal Herria- del camino que paso a paso se está recorriendo hoy, se puede quebrar esa iniciativa. En ese sentido, Zapatero y Rajoy, el Ejército y la Corona borbónica heredada del dictador Franco, no son distintos a Netanyahu y los uniformados sionistas que aterrorizan ‑pero no vencen- con sus bombas al pueblo palestino.
Unos en Medio Oriente y otros en la Europa del capital, pretenden tapar el bosque con un dedo autoritario, pero no se dan cuenta que ni enviando a todos y todas las vascas al calabozo lograrán ahogar el grito libertario que reclama Independencia y Socialismo para sacudirse las cadenas de la intolerancia.
Arnaldo Otegi, Rafa Diez, Arkaitz Rodríguez, Miren Zabaleta y Sonia Jacinto, son junto a los más de 700 presos políticos vascos de hoy, igual a lo que fue el inolvidable independentista cubano José Martí, al que este mismo autoritarismo español quiso sacar de su camino de lucha enviándolo a prisión. Martí con su gesto heroico de no doblegarse frente al invasor, ganó la gloria. Cuba años después obtuvo su libertad para siempre.
Euskal Herria, no lo dudemos, es un aluvión imparable que arrasará a su paso con quienes traten de impedir que su pueblo se autodetermine y derrote a quienes durante tantos años lo han oprimido.
EUSKAL HERRIAREN LAGUNAK (AMIGAS Y AMIGOS DEL PUEBLO VASCO, ARGENTINA)
Buenos Aires, 16 septiembre 2011