Alma Masic, Director, Youth Initiative for Human Rights inBosnia and Herzegovina(Sarajevo) I have two associations withGuernica: First, the event itself. The attack and systematic destruction of the town Guernica on April 26, 1937 by German and Italian warplanes on behalf of the nationalist-fascist forces of General Franco during the Spanish Civil War. Of the around […]
By Oriol López i Badell and Jordi Palou- Loverdos, Memorial Democràtic, Spain Remembering the bombing of Gernika is a useful exercise to analyze the indiscriminate attack on a population that was identified with a particular ideology. It was not important who lived in the city, simply that Gernika was located in an area considered Republican. […]
– By Will Glendinning, Coordinator, Diversity Challenges (Ireland) What connections can there be between the air-raid bombing of Gernika in 1937 and the 31-year long conflict in and about Northern Ireland that ended in 2000? On the face of it, these two histories may seem disparate. Gernika was the bombing of a city by the […]
– By Adrian Kerr, Manager, Museum of Free Derry, Ireland Why do we have to remember events like the bombing of Gernika? Why, 75 years on, is it so important that such events be publicly commemorated rather than just read about in history books? We have to remember it to remind ourselves and everyone else […]
Just over a decade after the attacks of 9-11, we are in the midst of a global war on terror. In Syria, Sudan and many other countries, citizens are under attack. In Europe, xenophobia and discrimination is on the rise and the United States is facing divisive battles around immigration and inequity. In this bleak […]