ETA Is Not Dead In Spain

A general view of the scene of a car bomb that exploded on the campus of the Navarra University in Pamplona, northern Spain, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008. A powerful car bomb exploded Thursday at a university in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona, wounding 17 people and setting a building on fire in an attack blamed on Basque separatists.
(AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

ETA Claims Responsibility For 10 Attacks, Vows to
Keep Fighting -- AFP

MADRID (AFP) – The Basque separatist group ETA claimed responsibility Wednesday for 10 recent attacks in Spain and vowed to keep up its armed fight for an independent Basque homeland until the Spanish government resumes negotiations.

"The resistance will continue as long as the rights of Euskal Herria are not recognized and respected," the group said in a statement published in the online edition of pro-independence Basque newspaper Gara, using the Basque language name for the Basque Country.

"They will sit down again. We will make them sit down again to recognize the rights of Euskal Herria once and for all," it added.

ETA called off a 15-month-old ceasefire in June last year, saying it had grown tired of a lack of concessions on the part of the socialist government of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero in their tentative peace talks.

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My Comment: ETA will never accept the idea of being a part of Spain. Independence is their final goal .... regardless of the consequences.