The Historical Memory Act and Its Implementation (original) (raw)

2013

Abstract

As previously explained, following the dictator Franco's death, many different measures were adopted with the aim of restoring and rehabilitating the rights for those who had long been deprived of them. It is, however, important to highlight the fact that these measures had a specifically restitutional character. Taking this into consideration, it is evident that from the beginning of the democracy in Spain there were many different legislative initiatives aimed at offering appropriate reparations to those who had been victims, first in the Civil War and then during the dictatorship. It was not, however, until the arrival of the seventh legislature (2000–4) that some members of Parliament started to take action and to demand a different kind of proposal that focused on the acknowledgement of dignity and honour, the recognition of moral obligations, and the offering of public apologies by the Spanish State and finally culminating in the recognition of historical memory. As Davis ...

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