Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie
Jong N-VA solidair met Baskisch jongereninitiatief voor vrede
klok 14 mei 2010
In Baskenland is een nieuw jeugdinitiatief van start gegaan dat over de
ideologische grenzen heen pleit voor onafhankelijkheid: Gazteherria.
Jong N-VA verwelkomt dit initiatief met open armen en wil de
organisatie mee helpen haar stem te laten horen op het internationale
forum.
Gazteherria verenigt jeugdorganisaties en individuele jongeren die
werken rond feminisme, muziek, studenten, huisvesting,
internationalisme enz. uit zowel Spaans als Frans Baskenland. Wat hen
bindt is hun vreedzaam streven naar Baskische onafhankelijkheid. De
organisatie vraagt van de Spaanse en Franse overheid respect voor hun
overtuiging en eist het einde van de vervolgingen door beide staten.
Vorige week nog arresteerde de Franse politie vier Baskische
onafhankelijkheidsactivisten.
Gazteherria eist, daarin gesteund door Jong N-VA, dat er een einde komt
aan de onophoudelijke politieacties, de "incommunicado", de marteling
en opsluiting van Baskische activisten.
U vindt hierbij de verklaring die Gazteherria verspreidde n.a.v. hun
bezoek aan Jong N-VA in Brussel:
We are representatives of the youth of a country working for
independence every day. On this moment when the Basque Country is
facing a decisive moment, the basque youth have united and stablished
a diverse and open framework in order to work together for
independence: Gazteherria.
On Gazteherria we meet youth organisations and individual youth working
in different areas like; feminism, students movement, promoters of
popular music, building our own and free comunicative means,
internazionalism, housing rights... we have come to Brusels
representing all of them.
We are here today with the aim of spreading the need of the Basque
Country to independence worldwhile and also on defense of the civil and
political rights of the basque youth.
Our rights are not recognized in the Basque Country. The work for
independence is totally criminalized from the French and Spanish
goverments. The youth that dream on independence can not work freelly
because the work for independence brings represion as conclusion. We
know well the endless police operations, "incomunicado" situation,
torture and imprisonment, and we came here with the aim to end with
this. We consider that international communitty should engage itself in
ending this situation.
In fact, within the European Union, there are states like France and
Spain where basic civil and political rights of collectives and
individulas are constantly violated. The European Union, an institusion
that defines it self as democratic can not look to the other side.
They cannot stay blind and muted infront of this situation. We think it
is also Europes responsabillity to ask for civil and political rights
for basque youth.
This situation unfortunately has recently got a new episode,when last
week, the french state arrested four proindependence young activists.
Being a basic right to life free in the Basque Country, we want to
denounce the strategy against the basque youth from the french and
spanish states. Those four pro independence young activists where
forced to leave their homes by the spanish state on Novemener due to
the policial operation against the youth organistion SEGI where 34
youth where also arrested and imprisoned.
Gazteherria infront of this attack wants to denounce the following:
.Those arrets show the denial of civil and political rights of the
basque youth
.The work for independence is legitimate and we have the right to do
it freely.
.We ask the respect of our rights as youth.
All in all, here we are, in Brusels, in the heart of Europe, in defense
of our rights to underline the inportance of the international
inplication in order to solve the political conflict that confronts the
basque country with both spanish and french states. We would like to
end this statement saying thanks to all the international solidarity
and support we have recived during these days.
Auteur(s):
David Manaigre, Voorzitter Jong N-VA
Contactinfo:
David Manaigre
Tel: 0472 76 10 06
Fax: 02 217 35 10