Basque separatist group ETA

Basque civil society groups and international observers said that there will be an event next month in southern France that will be key to ending the Basque conflict. Organizers had said that "important elements for the process of demobilization" of ETA would be announced at their news conference in ...

Eta is blamed for the deaths of 829 people and some of its members were victims of extrajudicial killings and torture. About 300 of its members are in prison in France, Spain and Portugal and up to 100 are on the run, according to a prisoners' support group. It is expected to officially disband on the weekend ...

Ivan Ramos often sees the ETA-linked murderer of his mother in his Basque town of Portugalete and has had to learn to live with it. Just a five-minute drive away, Encarni Blanco, a one-time collaborator of the Basque separatist group, has struggled to piece her life back together years after she said police ...

Shouting "Basque prisoners home" and waving the red, green and white Basque flag, they called for ETA prisoners to be transferred to jails closer to the northern region from where they are, hundreds of kilometres away, and freedom for those who are ill. The protest comes a day after ETA apologised to ...

"In Spain, we know well, unfortunately, what terrorism is," he tweeted in a reference to the Basque separatist ETA which is blamed for the deaths of more than 800 people in its long campaign of bombings and shootings for an independent Basque homeland. Puigdemont and others have already been ...

Police found documents calling for jihad at his home and books on European organisations such as the Basque separatist group ETA or Germany's far-left Red Army Faction, the ruling said. Members of the cell had also gone on a recce in Barcelona, the Catalonian capital, where they took photos of the ...

Basque terrorist organization ETA is seeking international backing as it finalizes preparations to declare its definitive end around the end of May or the beginning of June, according to sources from the radical left in the northern Spanish region. The group, which waged a decades-long campaign for ...

The Government and Basque parties agree that it was definitive cessation of terrorism, more than six years ago, key to end of ETA in disappearance of murders, extortion, street violence and threats. Moreover, during se years, re has been clear progress in institutional recognition of victims of terrorism and ...

But Barbet said she did not believe Spain will see a return to the armed violence that plagued the country when Basque separatist group ETA and Catalan nationalist group Terra Lliure were active. ETA, accused of killing more than 800 people in a decades-long campaign of bombings and shootings to ...

A variety of nationalist and separatist groups, like the Irish Republican Army and the Basque ETA, have also used terrorism in pursuit of their independence. Within the United States, in addition to anarchist terrorism, there is also a modest history of Marxist terrorism by groups seeking to cause an uprising to ...

This time of ETA. This is what exile recalls: "After Franco's death we perceive fracture in Basque society. We never imagined it would go that far. In July 1983, a militant of ETA died when bomb that he manipulated exploded. The left Abertzale summoned a general strike. In Lagun we refuse to close. Only two ...

ETA, accused of killing more than 800 people in a decades-long campaign of bombings and shootings to establish an independent Basque state in northern Spain and southern France, announced it was disarming in April 2017. Basque newspaper Gara, which has traditionally been ETA's mouthpiece, ...

Madrid (AFP) - Spanish police held and questioned four Basque separatists for several hours Tuesday for paying homage to a former leading member of separatist group ETA who died in November. News of the detentions came as controversy mounts in Spain over public tributes to former ETA members ...

Guerrero said that when a rapper praises the Basque separatists, “the victims are forced to re-experience memories related to the attacks they suffered.” ... puppeteers in 2016 for waving a sign in a street play against police brutality that combined the words al-Qaeda and ETA, the Basque separatist group ...

ETA was formed in the 1950s. It grew in strength under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco who ruled Spain from 1939 to 1975. Franco's policies pushed for a unification of the Spanish state, outlawing minority languages and cultures. The Basque are an indigenous people whose language is unrelated to ...

Some former ETA members have joined a Franco-Spanish Basque political party called Sortu that is working for "full freedom" for the region's 2.2 million people. The regional leader of Spain's Basque Country, Inigo Urkullu, urged Madrid on Sunday to allow independence referendums like those held in ...

Three members of Basque separatist group ETA call for a definitive end to 50 years of armed struggle, which has cost the lives of at least 850 people, in this still image taken from an undated video published on the website of Basque language newspaper Gara October 20, 2011. REUTERS/Gara/Handout.

Basque separatist group ETA plans to announce its dissolution early next month after agreeing to a truce and laying down its arms last year, Spain's EFE news agency said Wednesday. The terrorist organization will announce its decision on May 5 at an event in the French city of Bayonne, EFE reported.

The terrorist organization ETA will announce its dissolution the first weekend of May, at an act which will be held in the French Basque Country. That's according to sources from the Basque radical left, known as the abertzale. The group, which waged a violent decades-long campaign for independence for ...

The protracted demise of the group -- blamed for 829 deaths during its years of attacks -- has stoked tensions as ETA prisoners are released. Nationalists see reintegration into society as a necessary step for cementing lasting peace, whereas victims' relatives are concerned that there should not be a ...

Mr Gurruchaga said it was “not legitimate for the IRA or the ETA in the Basque country to have put the threshold of human life so low, when there is freedom to print newspapers, to vote in elections, to organise political parties. Violence in those circumstances is completely illegitimate.” The ex Ulster Unionist ...