Forty Years of ETA
John Sullivan charts the fortunes of the radical Basque nationalist movement in its attempts to gain independence from Spain.
In spring 1959 a handful of young Basque nationalists founded ETA (Euskadi ta Azkatasuna - 'Freedom for the Basque country'), which sought to gain independence from Spain. By September 1998, when it called an unconditional truce, ETA had killed nearly 800 people. Thousands of its supporters had been jailed, killed or tortured and nearly 600 of its members remained in prison, but the party was no nearer to achieving its objective.
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