Lastres de impunidad. Sombras de amnistía y espanto de victimarios en la España “democrática”

Abstract

Spain has experienced a very particular transitional justice for which the visibility of those who were victimizers and those who suffered as victims was practically null. There was neither justice nor reparation for the memory of the murdered. A hegemonic memory was imposed by the power that hid the victims, but also their killers. This culture of memory has established rules up to this day according to which the perpetrators cannot be held criminally or morally responsible. Moral repentance does not exist either. The Amnesty Law of 1977 protects them and there is no truth commission that points out the dictatorship's murderers, even if they are not already criminally responsible. Many of these perpetrators are already spectres of the past, but there is a possibility that they will appear in our memory as the negatives "others" of our democratic tradition.