When I hear our political representatives, the president of the government, or the head of the opposition and possible future president, speak, I feel very worried. I am worried about what will happen to the terrorists currently serving prison terms. I think of the more than 200 murder cases which still have not been resolved. I worry that with a simple petition for clemency, a terrorist who has committed murder could be released from prison, that pending cases will be suddenly closed, that files and hearings will be scattered to the wind. That victims and executioners will be described in the same way, to give credence to the indecent claims of a “conflict”, the version of reality which holds that two groups were in conflict. That we have all suffered. This is a lie.
Those who wish to forgive can forgive, if they wish to see ETA triumph they can become traitors. But I will feel the same compassion as that felt by the terrorist who stuck his gun into the back of the innocent head of Gregorio Ordóñez.
Ana Iríbar
Gregorio Ordóñez’s Widow